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Country diary: Walking the storm path through an ever-changing pinewood | Amanda Thomson

Windthrown trees reshape forest ecosystems, creating deadwood habitats, changing light regimes, enabling pioneer species and diverse invertebrate and amphibian communities.

Science

fromwww.scientificamerican.com

2 months ago

Contributors to Scientific American's October 2025 Issue

A former NASA contract photographer shifted from sterile clean rooms to Oregon forests, capturing decaying logs with sharp, light-driven images that revealed life in dead trees.

fromBig Think

2 months ago

What the forest can teach us about resilience

And since our world's systems are composed of individual organisms, they have the capacity to change. We creatures adapt, our genes evolve, we can learn from experience. A system is ever-changing because its parts - the trees and fungi and people - are constantly responding to one another and to the environment. Our success in coevolution - our success as a productive society - is only as good as the strength of the bonds with other individuals and species.

Artificial intelligence

OMG science

fromSFGATE

7 months ago

Rare discovery sets a new record on one of California's highest peaks

Hugh Safford discovered Jeffrey pines at record altitudes in California, suggesting trees are thriving beyond previously recognized limits.

OMG science

fromFuturism

7 months ago

Scientists Intrigued by Tree That Harnesses Electricity to Kill Its Enemies

The tonka bean tree thrives in lightning strikes, unlike most other trees that suffer damage.