Trees

In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species. In some usages, the definition of a tree may be narrower, including only woody plants with secondary growth, plants that are usable as lumber or plants above a specified height. In wider definitions, the taller palms, tree ferns, bananas, and bamboos are also trees. Trees are not a taxonomic group but include a variety of plant species that have independently evolved a trunk and branches as a way to tower above other plants to compete for sunlight. Trees tend …

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IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 18 July 2024 English

In this integrated cost-benefit analysis, the Nature-Based Infrastructure (NBI) Global Resource Centre demonstrates the potential of ecosystem-based adaptation to stabilize hydrology and ensure a reliable water and energy supply in …

Development. Sign up to IISD’s newsletter Sign up Our Trees reforestation project. REPORT July 8, 2024


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 18 July 2024 English

The Scaling Urban Nature-based Solutions for Climate Adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SUNCASA) project aims to enhance climate resilience, gender equality and social inclusion, and biodiversity protection in urban communities in …

green spaces in the city by planting indigenous trees and supporting horticulture. Contacts Benjamin


DDN: Dundurn Press · 16 July 2024 English

As Udonwa grows, her hidden family history changes her forever.Let me tell you a story. It’s about a war. This war is not the type fought with guns and machetes. …

had washed earlier, muted her screams. The palm trees in our compound whooshed and prostrated in the sitting room and the one the ground-worshipping trees were making almost burst my tiny eardrums. I placed Iruama is such a beautiful town. Look at all the trees and fruits and the dirt roads. I miss it,” Sister Adaora said, smiling. “I’m sure Awka has enough trees, and fruits and dirt roads too,” said Lincoln with understand your missing the udala tree and the guava trees, but the dirt road? Why do you miss this … this


UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 July 2024 English

Invisible Lives chronicles cycles of dysfunction and domestic violence. Using experimental hybrid poetry, Cristalle Smith breaks generational silence in lyric resonance, reflecting on a childhood rife with upheaval and poverty, …

British Columbia brush. Down a path, overhang of trees. Lay down next to the lake at Sun-Oka Beach. In Tell ourselves we’ll come back in spring and find trees with more fruit falling to the ground on the Alberta whisper rush from nightmares and sweep through the trees. They arrive at the ears of a young Kelowna woman


DDN: Dundurn Press · 9 July 2024 English

From Trench Town to the top of the world — one man's inspiring fight for meaning, dignity, and respect. Tiga’s Tale chronicles the remarkable life of world champion boxer Barrington …

bustled along a wide street framed by thriving palm trees and fancy buildings with ornate columns and red


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 8 July 2024

to improve climate-related flooding and landslides in Kasese, Uganda, through the Bring Back Our Trees reforestation project.


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English

Interactive documentary emerged rapidly from a constellation of changing technologies and practices to much excitement, yet its history is short and its future uncertain. In the mid-2010s Canada was a …

Montréal, Matt Soar, 2019 119 7.1 Dreaming of Trees video pages featuring Safali and a coastal map of


CHB: Coach House Books · 18 June 2024 English

WINNER OF A 2023 PEN TRANSLATES AWARD This punk-like blend of Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives and Samanta Schweblin’s Fever Dream heralds an exciting new voice in international fiction Living …

circled by shades of yellow and green, by grass and trees and flowers, while I drifted off to sleep. Memories saw three French soldiers walking through the trees in the faint twilight and was seized by a terrible


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 June 2024 English

In 1909 Myrtle and Ernest Webb took possession of an ordinary farm in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island. Ordinary but for one thing: it was already becoming known as inspiration for …

tables were spread under the shade of the apple trees in ‘Old Orchard’ in full view of the Lake of Shining orchard.” To the west, a few large balm of Gilead trees pro- vided some shelter from the wind. Just north the south, there were silver maples and birch trees on the lawn. And at the entrance of Lover’s Lane to Lover’s Lane.11 In October 1923, many of the trees along Lover’s Lane were knocked down in a hurricane face one day when coming home from cutting down trees in the woods. But February turned mild, with so


NSP: New Society Publishers · 11 June 2024 English

Leadership for the Great Transition—a changemaker’s toolkit for cultivating personal and community resilience The Regeneration Handbook offers an abundance of insights, stories, tools, practices, and resources for experienced and aspiring …

fully formed, from a seed. If properly nurtured, trees and people and all other forms of life gradu- ally usu- ally where perennial crops, such as fruit trees, are grown. Zone 4 is often reserved for foraging


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