climate care
Forest fires and their causes
The global trend for higher temperatures and changing rain patterns is a growing cause for wildfires, but forest mismanagement is a huge factor too.
Fred Hageneder
28 July 2012
FRED HAGENEDER’S GATEWAY TO THE MEANING OF TREES IN CULTURE AND CONSCIOUSNESS
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conservation
World’s biggest trees disappear
Worldwide long-term studies show that proportionally, the biggest and oldest trees of the world vanish more rapidly than the younger tree populations.
Fred Hageneder
29 January 2012
conservation
People power saves oak tree
The insurers of a village council bullied the councilors to fell the old Lucombe oak due to a fungus infection, but a citizen’s campaign saved the tree.
Fred Hageneder
28 July 2009
conservation
Drug production kills trees and people
Cocaine and heroine production have sacrificed millions of hectares of (forest) land, and demand is still growing. The jungle labs pollute additional land.
Fred Hageneder
28 March 2009
climate care
Tree vapours cool planet
New discoveries show that tree vapours cool the planet, and that protecting old-growth forests would be one of the best ways to counteract global heating.
Fred Hageneder
29 October 2008
climate care
Global deforestation costs more than the financial crisis
Global deforestation costs far more than the current banking crisis (2008). Yet another sobering calculation exposing the lack of political will.
Fred Hageneder
28 October 2008
cultural history
Swindon Borough Council destroys old yew tree
An old yew tree of major literary and spiritual importance was axed by Swindon Borough Council when no-one was around to stop the destruction.
Fred Hageneder
28 September 2008
cultural history
US army destroys ancient trees in Iraq
Iraq has lost tens of millions of date palm trees as well as orange trees and lemon trees, due to war. First in the Iran-Iraq war, then in the US invasion.
Fred Hageneder
09 February 2004
climate care
Forest fires and their causes
The global trend for higher temperatures and changing rain patterns is a growing cause for wildfires, but forest mismanagement is a huge factor too.
Fred Hageneder
28 July 2012
conservation
World’s biggest trees disappear
Worldwide long-term studies show that proportionally, the biggest and oldest trees of the world vanish more rapidly than the younger tree populations.
Fred Hageneder
29 January 2012
conservation
People power saves oak tree
The insurers of a village council bullied the councilors to fell the old Lucombe oak due to a fungus infection, but a citizen’s campaign saved the tree.
Fred Hageneder
28 July 2009
conservation
Drug production kills trees and people
Cocaine and heroine production have sacrificed millions of hectares of (forest) land, and demand is still growing. The jungle labs pollute additional land.
Fred Hageneder
28 March 2009
climate care
Tree vapours cool planet
New discoveries show that tree vapours cool the planet, and that protecting old-growth forests would be one of the best ways to counteract global heating.
Fred Hageneder
29 October 2008
climate care
Global deforestation costs more than the financial crisis
Global deforestation costs far more than the current banking crisis (2008). Yet another sobering calculation exposing the lack of political will.
Fred Hageneder
28 October 2008
cultural history
Swindon Borough Council destroys old yew tree
An old yew tree of major literary and spiritual importance was axed by Swindon Borough Council when no-one was around to stop the destruction.
Fred Hageneder
28 September 2008
cultural history
US army destroys ancient trees in Iraq
Iraq has lost tens of millions of date palm trees as well as orange trees and lemon trees, due to war. First in the Iran-Iraq war, then in the US invasion.
Fred Hageneder
09 February 2004