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In an Illinois forest, many buds are forming earlier and leaves are changing color later » Yale Climate Connections
7+ mon, 3+ day ago (223+ words) Near the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a 60-acre forest called Trelease Woods has grown " largely undisturbed " for centuries. But as the climate warms, the forest is changing. Professor Emerita Carol Augspurger has monitored more than 60 tree and plant species there…...
Elm trees return to Rockport, Massachusetts » Yale Climate Connections
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (329+ words) Resident Nathan Ives remembers the elms of his childhood " and he's determined to bring them back. When Nathan Ives was growing up in Rockport, Massachusetts, tall elm trees shaded many of the streets in town. Ives: "They were just gorgeous,…...
The silent collapse of an American urban tree canopy » Yale Climate Connections
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (1844+ words) Michael Svoboda, Ph.D., is the Yale Climate Connections books editor. He is a professor in the University Writing Program at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he has taught since 2005. Before completing his interdisciplinary Ph.D. at Penn State in…...