Tag: Forest dieback
Bavaria: Bare trees, bare mountain ridges – Bavaria
It should be a wake-up call with a view to forest dieback: Around 120 conservationists in Upper Franconia drew attention to the consequences of climate change. In the Franconian Forest…
Christmas tree in Dresden and Neu-Ulm 2022: why it’s so ugly – panorama
As he stood there, directly in front of the Frauenkirche, which radiates magnificently over the whole of Dresden, he seemed particularly bald. The branches were not particularly evenly distributed around…
Biomass: Why cutting down trees is not climate protection – Opinion
What does some climate damage have in common with hell? The road to both is paved with good intentions. Burning wood on a large scale to generate supposedly climate-neutral electricity,…
Thomas Köck stages his new play “Solastalgia” in Weimar. – Culture
Solastalgia, a neologism pieced together from the ancient Greek and Latin equivalents of comfort and pain, denotes a sense of loss one feels when one witnesses first-hand the destruction of…
Franconian Forest: Why a new forest dieback is looming in Bavaria – Bavaria
It is a desperate struggle that forest owners and foresters are waging in the Franconian Forest these days. The weeks of heat and drought are affecting the forests all over…
Forest dieback: cause of death climate change
The forests in the district of Munich are suffering more and more dramatically from heat and drought. But forester Karl Einwanger also spreads hope – a visit to the undergrowth.…
Forest in Germany: unprecedented damage – Knowledge
According to a new analysis, forest loss in Germany is significantly greater than previously assumed. From January 2018 to April 2021, trees were destroyed on an area of around 501,000…
Climate change: How biologists want to save the beech from the climate crisis – knowledge
If you were looking for the oldest beech in Germany, you would almost certainly pass it by. If you think of the Methuselah tree as meter-wide trunks and gigantic branches,…