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Water UK has partnered with Friends of the Earth to call on the Government to do more to promote tree planting in England. The two organisations have written to Lord Zac Goldsmith, Minister of State for Pacific and the Environment, to call for the introduction of targets to increase tree planting across the country. The letter urges the Government to use the ...
ByWater UK
As a full-service grounds maintenance and management company, based in Stoke-on-Trent, Cropper Grounds Maintenance Ltd., is a family-owned business and was established in 2001. ...
In their study, UF/IFAS researchers detected greening about one month after they infected the trees, he said. Timely detection and removal of greening-infected trees are necessary to manage the disease, said Lee, a UF/IFAS agricultural and biological engineering professor and an author on the study. ...
The bacteria then move through the tree via the phloem – the veins of the tree. The disease starves the tree of nutrients, damages its roots and the tree produces fruits that are green and misshapen, unsuitable for sale as fresh fruit or, for the most part, juice. Most infected trees eventually die, and ...
Bangor University’s role in the project is led by John Healey, Professor of Forest Sciences, who commented: “The current outbreaks of Phytophthora ramorum on larch trees and ash dieback disease on ash trees are a major threat to forests and woodlands in Wales, and to the role of trees in the wider landscape. It is more than likely ...
Some of the negative impacts of climate change can be counteracted through forest management. Changing tree species can change the amount of water released to the air from leaves (‘evapotranspiration’) and the amount of water trees catch from precipitation (‘interception’). Both these processes affect the amount of water ...
Tree Line USA is a national program recognizing public and private utilities for pursuing practices that protect and enhance America's urban trees. ...
ByEntergy
Some of the negative impacts of climate change can be counteracted through forest management. Changing tree species can change the amount of water released to the air from leaves (‘evapotranspiration’) and the amount of water trees catch from precipitation (‘interception’). Both these processes affect the amount of water ...
"Paper comes from a renewable resource -- trees grown in responsibly managed forests -- and it's recycled more than any other commodity, including plastics, metals and glass. The continuing demand for sustainably sourced paper gives U.S. landowners and families a financial incentive to continue managing their lands responsibly and keep them ...
Vermeer Corporation has introduced a new technology within its line of brush chippers designed to help tree-care contractors conserve fuel and reduce overall engine noise. ...
ByVermeer
Victor Afari-Sefa, a consultant for the Sustainable Tree Crops Program — managed by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, in Nigeria — said that not all tree species are likely to be equally beneficial to cocoa farmers. ...
On June 24, 2011 EPA approved, for emergency use, the insecticide dinotefuran (trade names Venom and Scorpion) on tree fruit to help manage populations of the brown marmorated stink bug, an invasive insect that has caused extensive yield losses in tree fruit production in the mid-Atlantic region. ...
More than half of land-based animal and plant species live in forests. And trees absorb vast quantities of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and protect vital freshwater sources. ...
The tools assist governments to identify threshold levels to trigger planning, management and/or regulatory measures to appropriately account for forestry plantation water use. ...
An awareness campaign entitled Go Paper. Grow Trees.™ gives consumers the facts on how using paper products makes a direct contribution to the health and growth of trees and the forests. ...
Under the agreement, a software model referred to as CABALA, which can be used to model forest growth over time, has been licensed to CO2 Australia to assist it in the design and management of tree plantings for use in large greenhouse gas abatement projects. Based on inputs like rainfall, temperature, and data on the particular tree species of ...
Beech trees are extremely sensitive to drought and are known to be one of the European tree species most at risk from climate change. ...
New research describes a method for measuring tree growth and timber harvesting, which can lead to sustainable management of tropical timber resources. ...