Here are some links to news items about the plant world -- if you have items to add, contact the webmaster.
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November, 2023

• Revealing the true extent of tropical forest loss from rubber plantations

October, 2023

• Tree-planting schemes threaten tropical biodiversity
• Ancient tree showed remnants of the largest-ever solar storm
• Freak of nature’ tree is the find of a lifetime for forest explorer
• Canopy of titans: Proforestation
• Botanical oddities
• In search of the world's oldest trees

July, 2023

• ​Elk Root Conservation - Native Plant Project Highlights
• Vancouver Ponds Are Drying Up. Should Park Board Intervene?
•  4500 Trees Planted a Day But an Audience of Millions 
• Saguaro Cacti Collapsing in Arizona Extreme Heat

May, 2023

• SFU Professor Unearths Ancient Fossil Plant History of Burnaby Mountain
• 5 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know about QE Park
• ​How the Hunt for Big Trees Helped Me Ease Up on Myself
• ​Detangling the 'Wood' Wide Web Debate (from The Tyee)​
• Where the Wood Wide Web Narrative Went Wrong (from Undark Magazine)
• Evolution of Plant Life- Murals in Toronto's Dupont Station
• Forests Will Save Us. If We Let Them (Interview with Peter Wohlleben)

April, 2023:

• Beyond the Gardens: Exploring Brazil’s Forgotten Forest (from Kew Gardens)
• Canada pledged to plant 2 billion trees by 2030 — it’s not going so well (from Global News)
• Peru's fast and furious blueberry boom (from BBC News)
• Bigleaf Magnolia (from Arnoldia)