La nouvelle édition d’ « Aux Arbres ! » invite chacun à agir pour la préservation des forêts et des arbres, à compter de ce 2 juin, jusqu’au 6 juin prochain. Objectif : aider le grand public à mieux comprendre les enjeux et bienfaits des forêts et leur proposer des
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Nous nous y promenons, nous l’admirons et nous en émerveillons ; nous l’exploitons aussi, comme si elle était là pour toujours. Eh bien non. La forêt européenne en général et la forêt française en particulier, sont menacées d’extinction. Sécheresse aggravée par le réchauffement climatique, apparition de parasites fortifiés par la
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This was the cry from the heart of the deputy mayor of Angers, in charge of the environment and green spaces, during an interview for UP'. 100,000 trees are to be planted in Angers, putting the city at the top of the list of the Green Cities Observatory, which analysed the policy of the city.
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The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Brest Métropole is shaking up traditional codes by entrusting the exhibition to a group of local residents. This is a first in France. Until 16 May, the public is invited to discover "D'art en arbres", a unique exhibition whose works, half of which are from
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We walk around it, we admire and marvel at it; we also exploit it, as if it were there forever. Well, it's not. The European forest in general, and the French forest in particular, are threatened with extinction. Drought aggravated by global warming, appearance of heat-strengthened parasites,
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Réunissant une communauté d’artistes, de botanistes et de philosophes, la Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain se fait l’écho des plus récentes recherches scientifiques qui portent sur les arbres un regard renouvelé. Nous les Arbres s’organise autour de plusieurs grands ensembles d’œuvres et laisse entendre la voix de ceux qui ont
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Make amends for driving by planting trees? The idea appeals to many people. But is it such a good idea? A few euros, a few clicks and a tree is planted: at a time when travelling by plane can rhyme with guilt, it has never been so easy to compensate for one's emissions of
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World specialists in agroforestry, an ancestral practice associating trees and crops that has been abandoned for several decades in favour of intensive agriculture, are meeting in congress this week to discuss ecological solutions to the agri-food challenge. Until May 23, researchers, farmers, scientists, political and economic decision-makers from some 100 countries are meeting,
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China has an air pollution problem. Very serious. The Chinese people are suffocating under pollution and serious illnesses can be counted in the millions. A veritable hecatomb against which the government wants to use all the means at its disposal. Among them, the use of the army to plant trees to improve the quality of the air...
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On September 27th, the documentary film "L'intelligence des arbres", based on the bestseller by Peter Wohlleen, a German forester, is released in France. It tells us how the tree society is organized. The scientists' discoveries about the exchange of food and information between the trees of a forest show a real mutual help, a real exchange of ideas, a real exchange of information between the trees of a forest.
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For a very long time, the scientific community considered that plants, although they were certainly capable of adapting to changes in their environment through the mechanisms of natural selection, lacked a nervous system and the ability to learn - as is the case in
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Planting 1 billion trees a year to fight deforestation is the crazy bet of this former NASA engineer. To achieve this, he has developed a drone that is able to "strafe" areas to be reforested with tree seeds. This saves time and
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