Tag: TREES

The Internet may be moving us ever closer to a paperless existence, but, according to a newly released study, it's still not that great for trees. As Mac World reports, the study was commissioned five years ago by the Dutch city of Alphen aan den Rijn, after officials noticed that many trees in the area were exhibiting inexplicable abnormalities, including bleeding and fissures in their bark. Such ...

If a tree speaks in the woods, and nobody's there to hear it, does it make a noise? According to Engadget, some guys from EOS Magazine and Happiness Brussels have rigged a 100-year-old tree with devices that monitor environmental conditions and then post the data to sites like Facebook, Twitter and Flickr via text and photo updates. Talking-Tree.com is the hub for your peek into the daily life of ...

Share Back in the day, all you needed to break open a court case was some modicum of logical argumentation, and Gregory Peck's voice. Fast forward to 2010. Exit Atticus Finch, and enter Google's Street View. As Wired reports, Margaret Burnyeat, of Vancouver, Canada, was charged last year with the illegal removal of trees, after allegedly hiring a company to chop down some 23 cedar, cypress ...

If you're anything like us, you've dreamed of living like Robinson Crusoe -- in the trees, using what nature provided to make the tools necessary for survival. Well, we may soon be able to fulfill part of that dream. According to scientists from Tel Aviv University and MIT, we could see homes grown from trees within a decade. The new technique is far from your traditional topiary: Scientists use ...