Along the Golden Road, many of the trees are scarcely 15 feet tall.
Many of the trees smell delicious when burnt.
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They highlighted a lack of modern resources such as computers, the long delay it often takes for needed school supplies and resources to reach them and how many of the trees that supply needed shade during the lot of school days are being needlessly cut down.
The canopy created can block the sun and stunt or kill many of the younger trees, adding to the fire hazard.
Though many of the largest trees in the Amazon can survive repeated fires, smaller plants do less well.
Many of the dead trees are still standing, and can serve as ladder fuels that transform relatively cool surface fires into hot, fast-moving crown fires that leap from treetop to treetop.
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The Lord's Acre appears to have remained an orchard and kitchen garden to the castle's occupants for around 350 years, and many of the fruit trees there date from between 1300 and 1600.
"It could be that many of the susceptible trees were killed off in 2005, which would reduce the number killed last year, " said Paulo Brando from the Amazon Institute of Environmental Research (IPAM) in Belem, Brazil.
The mixture the team achieved leaves the combined mass of lignin and cellulose in the trunk more or less unchanged and, contrary to the expectations of many critics, the resulting trees are as strong as unmodified ones.
Visitors enter the park via a broad, pebbled avenue lined with twin rows of gingko trees, considered by many to be one of the most beautiful sights in the capital, especially in the autumn when golden leaves cover the path and in spring when the trees turn a fresh green.
In industrialised nations, such as the US and in Europe, many farms employ the services of commercial hives to pollinate fruit trees and food crops, and ensure they harvest adequate yields.
Increasing trade with China is putting the trees of many countries at risk, and the insect has become well established in Chicago and New York.
Instead, it leads us to a ghostly sight: the rusting chassis of a high-wing aircraft, crashed into the trees many years ago by some zoologists.
But you don't really see too many remnants of the destruction other than the lack of trees.
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At a polling station in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, voters queued in their hundreds, many of them seeking shelter from the sun under palm trees.
The two principal reasons were that generators used for backup power cannot run when underwater, and many of the wired lines carrying signals from the towers to the networks were knocked out by wind and trees.
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Many of the most critically affected species are found in China, including Magnolia phanerophlebia, of which only around 200 trees are estimated to exist in the wild and Magnolia sinica, believed to have a single population of fewer than 10 mature trees.
In many cases it is the combination of factors that is proving toxic for trees.
Many walls are left unpainted and crumbling, and trees still grow out of the occasional ruined building.
Salem and many of the western townships beyond are characterised by pretty church steeples and ancient oak trees that give them a stateliness that belies the drama that occurred centuries ago.
Over many years you would see seasons progress very predictably: the bare trees of winter, giving way to the green tinge of spring, the full leafing out of summer and the blazing colors of fall.
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The open valley turns to a forest of tall fir trees, many hung with moss.
It calculates how many pounds of carbon dioxide his travels are generating, so the company can then plant enough trees (or use an increasingly popular alternative like methane capture) to offset the damage to the environment.
" Girls were also urged to apply to natural resources the principles of conservation practiced at home, recognizing that "in this United States of ours we have cut down too many trees and our forests are fast following the buffalo.
The primary school counts 430 students and 17 teachers, grapples with classic problems of rural schools in many parts of the world from overcrowding and lack of clean water to difficulty in growing much-needed shade trees and river overflows in the rainy season.
Motorists in the storm's footprint had to navigate detours on many roads past downed trees and through areas of flooding.
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