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Recent articles from a wide variety of News sources that may be of interest to the IRG membership and other readers.

New items will be added to the top of the list bimonthly (every two months) and older items will be archived below.

Most Recent:

China's largest solar farm is quietly changing the desert around it

Hybrid organ’: how a union of trees and fungi could revolutionise forest management

Study reveals 400K acres of old growth forest, hiding in plain sight

Location of reforestation projects has greater effect on climate than number of trees planted

Japan launches a wooden box into space as a “strange but brilliant solution” to an increasingly serious problem, orbital debris, and proposes an idea that seems like science fiction, but seeks to prevent the future of space from becoming an unmanageable landfill

Planting trees in the sea could act as a huge carbon sink and save millions of dollars in storm damage every year. What is stopping us from doing it?

How our ancestors used mushrooms to change the course of human history

Study that shows evolution is not random and can be predicted called 'nothing short of revolutionary'

Ancient trees shelter hundreds of hidden fungal species underground

Treetops Emit Ultraviolet Sparkles During Thunderstorms. Researchers Just Filmed It in Nature for the First Time

Dense, dark forests in Europe are a modern phenomenon

Johan Eliasch: Swedish billionaire who bought 400,000 acres 400,000 acres of the Amazon forest to save it from deforestation and commercial destruction

Tree Rings Reveal Origins of Some of the World’s Best Violins

New fungal research to support woodland creation

According to science, the most efficient and economical heating system is…

Visualized: Percentage of Forested Area Across Europe

A Japanese Team is About to Launch the First Wooden Satellite, It Could Save the Planet from Space Debris!

"The $0 Medieval Firewood Hack That Gives You Unlimited Fuel Forever (No Replanting Needed)"

A scientific study from Stanford University shows that planting billions of trees has become a global climate symbol, but monocultures replace native ecosystems, reduce biodiversity, dry up rivers, and may decrease total carbon instead of capturing it

Chinese researchers decode the cause of the world’s largest underwater wooden shipwreck’s sinking

Recycling strategies of fungi can affect how forests store carbon

Scientists make concerning discovery after examining ancient trees

It's the equivalent of a humongous 1,500 soccer fields and is 8,650 years old

10 epic photos of the most monumental trees on Earth

Scientists learn that forests capture more methane from the air as the planet warms

Satellite record shows boreal forests expanded 12% and shifted north since 1985

Warming may increase mangrove methane emissions—but these forests remain powerful carbon sinks

It can be seen from space and contains a staggering two hundred million termite mounds

Archaeologists Unearthed a 430,000-Year-Old Stick. After Careful Analysis, They Say It Could Be the Oldest Wooden Tool Ever Discovered

Fast-growing trees are taking over the forests of the future and putting biodiversity, climate resilience under pressure

America’s forests are storing more carbon than they have in decades

Everything We Know About Prototaxites, the Giant Organism That Came Before Trees

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Recently Archived:

The Earth suddenly heated up 56 million years ago – and many plants stopped working properly

How the evergreen shaped America

The biodiversity, genomics, ecology and evolution of mushroom-forming fungi

Transform deserts into forests without planting a single tree, while billions invested fail, less than 20% of seedlings survive, and Tanzania recovers 500 hectares using ancient roots hidden in the soil

New research shows fungus can strengthen NZ bioeconomy

Minnesota scientists find fungi can fight emerald ash borers

Back to their roots: a brief history of trees – in picture

Hikers thrilled after discovering species thought to be all but lost: 'It's impossible to understate the importance'

The end of 'old growth' as we know it

4,900-Year-Old Bristlecone Pine Prometheus Was The Oldest Known Tree – But Scientists Didn’t Know Until They’d Killed It

America’s Largest Landowner Bets It Can Replace Met Coal With Pine Trees

Entire city under quarantine after concerning discovery - polyphagous shot-hole borer

Scientists uncover potentially game-changing universal new benefit after planting mushrooms

Complex life started with fungi, not plants or animals

Survey aims to put California’s fungi on the conservation map

Leaves' pores explain longstanding mystery of uneven tree growth in a carbon-enriched world

Fungus disarms bark beetle chemical shields by converting their plant-derived toxins

The holzhausen, a Scandinavian woodpile

How Christmas trees are getting a new lease of life

'Killer fungi' targets a beetle that's destroying American forests

Yes, forest trees die of old age. But the warming climate is killing them faster

Tree bark microbes also clean the air by removing greenhouse and toxic gases

Chernobyl’s “Radiation-Eating” Fungus Turns Nuclear Fallout Into Its Own Energy Source

A hidden chemical war is unfolding inside spruce trees

After 25 years of reforestation, once-barren landscapes are now absorbing millions of tons of CO annually

Deadly mushrooms (Video)

More Than 500,000 Mangrove Trees Replanted Worldwide Are Absorbing Carbon, Protecting Shores And Rebuilding Coastal Life

Fungus on bark beetles found to spread Dutch elm tree disease

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Previously Archived:

Scientists Map Microbiome Hidden Deep inside Tree Trunks

’Superwood’ that’s 10 times stronger than steel

Processing bulk natural wood into a high-performance structural material

WholeTrees Products

Researchers issue warning regarding threat to iconic Whitebark pine tree (Pinus albicaulis)

How ‘Wood Vaulting’ Could Help Slow Climate Change

Rising temperatures are threatening UK trees - but these species could save our forests

1 in 5 chemists have deliberately added errors into their papers during peer review

Green herbicide may reside in the leaves of walnut trees

First-Ever Fossil of a Living, Endangered Tropical Tree Discovered

A group in South Wales are using Yakisugi to char timber to give the resemblance of coal as part of mining heritage signs and trails:

Yakisugi

Indigenous Americans dragged, carried or floated 5-ton tree more than 100 miles to North America's largest city north of Mexico 900 years ago

Climbing Giant Trees in Costa Rica’s Cloud Forest

Redwoods vs Sequoias National Parks: Which Should You Visit

What's the hardest wood in the world?

Green forestry standards demystified, from FSC to SFI

Countries With the Largest Forests in 2025

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPwao-dib7j/?igsh=c2JhM2I5OWQ4YnJ1

Serbia and Sweden developed liquid trees in tanks - producing oxygen like 100 trees in one cubic meter

https://blog.ferrovial.com/en/2023/12/liquid-trees-and-the-world-of-photobioreactors/

https://www.euki.de/en/liquid-tree-belgrade/

If only the market value of an intact forest were more obvious

Tree mortality from insects is rising across Europe

Reusing and renewing a deck

Turkey Tail Mushroom Mycelium Replaces Single-Use Plastic Wrap

Seeing the hidden microbial world beneath our feet—from the sky

Scientists Uncover Fungal Secrets of a Sunken Civil War-Era Ship

EU’s grand new plan to replace fossil fuels with trees

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