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DavidDvorkin

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Thu Dec 6, 2012, 05:50 PM Dec 2012

World's Big Trees Are Dying: Alarming Increase in Death Rates Among Trees 100-300 Years Old

The largest living organisms on the planet, the big, old trees that harbour and sustain countless birds and other wildlife, are dying.

A report by three of the world's leading ecologists in today's issue of the journal Science warns of an alarming increase in deathrates among trees 100-300 years old in many of the world's forests, woodlands, savannahs, farming areas and even in cities.


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121206162519.htm
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World's Big Trees Are Dying: Alarming Increase in Death Rates Among Trees 100-300 Years Old (Original Post) DavidDvorkin Dec 2012 OP
Swell. nt PETRUS Dec 2012 #1
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