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Centuries-old tree offers glimpse into province’s diminishing ‘original forest’
After getting samples of an old tree from a resident of the Lorneville area of Saint John, Mount Allison University lecturer Ben Phillips brings us inside his lab, where he reveals the tree’s true age ...
400-year-old spruce tree a window into history of dwindling N.B. forests
A look inside a rare, 400-year-old tree found in the Lorneville area of Saint John offers a microscopic glimpse at the ...
Want to plant trees to offset fossil fuels? You’d need all of North and Central America, study finds
Planting trees can help save the planet, right? A new study finds that to offset all the planet-warming carbon emissions from ...