In what sounds like a great sequel to The Happening, according to new research, “some trees may themselves contribute to the likelihood of wildfires in order to promote their own abundance at the expense of their competitors.” In layman’s terms, trees want to burn and destroy other species, Malilbu houses included. |ScienceDaily|
Posterchild is ramping up his arboreal assault on Williamsburg. Putting an abandoned phone booth to use, the Toronto-based street artist installed another evergreen nearby the last on Bedford Ave.
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The Christmas season is starting earlier and earlier, not only in store windows but also in street art displays. Following his series of foliage-filled flyer boxes, PosterChild installed an Alberta Dwarf in an old, abandoned newspaper box off Bedford Ave in Williamsburg. If the miniature Christmas tree survives long enough, the Toronto-based artist hopes someone will festively decorate it, but based on past experience that’s not likely.
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Officials say the death toll in Central Park from Tuesday’s storm has skyrocketed after “an arboreal trauma team fanned out through the hardest-hit sections” and discovered almost 500 destroyed trees. |NYT|
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