Nature

BIRDY. Au printemps dernier, le Tennessee vivait un épisode météorologique d’une violence exceptionnelle. Entre le 28 et le 30 avril, pas moins de 84 tornades s’abattaient sur l’Etat, tuant 35 personnes et causant plus de 1 milliard de dollars de dégâts.

Tree. July 21, 2014. In the truth is stranger than fiction department, Los Angeles Councilman Tom LaBonge, whose district includes Griffith Park, told Pop & Hiss over the weekend that the pine tree planted in 2004 near Griffith Observatory in memory of George Harrison will be replanted shortly because the original tree died as the result of an insect infestation.

Environment. January 15 2014. Scientists who gathered decades of measurements from hundreds of thousands of trees all over the world are punching a hole in the common assumption that large, old trees are biologically pretty much over the hill.