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Space to breathe – trees and urban air quality
A report on Trees and Urban Air Quality released by the Woodland Trust today, and produced in cooperation with Lancaster University and the University of Birmingham, shows that despite air quality in the UK improving in recent decades, there remain … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Pollution, Urban
Tagged air, asthma, british lung foundation, child, city, cooling, corridor, costs, green, green space, Health, hotspot, lancaster university, lung disease, plant, pollutant, pollution, quality, shade, Street trees, temperature, town, tree, university of birmingham, urban
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New SSSI for ancient and veteran trees
If you had been visiting Castle Hill and Windy Pits 12 or more years ago, your journey into this part of the Forestry Commission’s publically accessible forest in Rye Dale near Helmsley would have been dominated by the dark and … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient trees, Conservation, Plantations on Ancient Woodland Sites (PAWS), Protection
Tagged ancient, Ancient Tree Forum, biodiversity, castle hill, designation, Duncombe Park, Forestry Commission, Helmsley, hotspot, Natural England, new, notification, oak, PAWS, Rye Dale, SSSi, tree, veteran, veteran trees initiative, wildlife, Windy Pits, Woodland
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