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When the Forest Breathes

Back in 2021, I read and raved about Susanne Simard’s wonderful book Finding the Mother Tree. Her new book, When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World, is a great follow-up. It’s an urgent call to save our forests and, in the process, save ourselves. Continue reading

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Nonfiction November 2025 Week 3: Book Pairings

The topic for week 3 of Nonfiction November is Book Pairings: pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title that are linked together in some way.

This one’s a little tough for me because I don’t read much fiction. But let’s give it a go. Continue reading

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A century of reforestation is cooling the eastern US

New research shows that reforestation in the eastern United States has contributed to significant cooling of the region, countering the warming trends of climate change. Continue reading

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Greenwood

I was on vacation last week and took one of my periodic side trips into fiction. Greenwood, by Canadian writer Michael Christie, is a novel about family and trees and the relationship between them. It spans four generations of the … Continue reading

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