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… risk of a supply crisis of wood." Görgen explained that the area planted in eucalyptus trees, one of Brazil's main sources of certified wood, is being reduced, as farmers prefer to … or exported to China. That, he said, could result in increased use of wood from native trees for cooking fuel. In October, the Brazilian Congress approved a voucher system to subsidize …

… in dreadful majesty; those who set at naught and sold him, pierced, and nailed him to the tree, deeply wailing, deeply wailing, shall the true Messiah see. …

… in wonder. There are everyday miracles right in front of us. Botanists have discovered that trees communicate with each other through a series of root connections that allows a Douglas fir, for instance, to tell a birch tree that it needs some additional carbon. We just have to look to the images of deep space sent … needles in the pine grove, the geese honking their way through the skies, the arms of the oak tree stretched out in a beautiful welcoming gesture. … Everything, in its own way, was praising …

… Amazon, told me that illegal loggers were stripping Ecuador's Amazonian watersheds of balsa trees. The lightweight wood was then exported legally — ironically, mainly to China to be used to manufacture wind turbine blades . The fast-growing balsa trees are found in low-lying areas where they help buffer the effects of floodwaters, Gualinga explained. By stripping the trees, the loggers leave communities at greater risk of more severe flooding — all in the name of …

… Brazil and Uruguay, is running dry. The Amazon, the world's largest tropical forest, is losing tree cover at an accelerated pace. And glaciers in the Andes, from Ecuador to the tip of Chile, …

… 19:1-10 Like other parables, the story of Zacchaeus, the diminutive tax collector who climbs a tree to see Jesus, has its own inexhaustible potential for reflection. I would like to focus on … people who see their chance to show contempt. So, Zacchaeus gathers up his robes and climbs a tree. It is an astonishing sight, this grown man up in the sycamore tree, and no doubt people in the crowd hooted at him. But Jesus does not; he instead meets …

… Pat Marrin … “Learn a lesson from the fig tree” (Mark 13:28). … Thirty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time … Dn 12:1-3; Ps 16; Heb 10: 11-14, 18; … compares the coming judgment to the arrival of summer signaled by the greening of the fig tree: “Learn a lesson from the fig tree.” The logic of the lesson is clear, but the mention of a fig tree also recalls that just two …

… with faith-based organizations. At the same time, the bishops are inviting citizens to join in tree planting for environmental conservation. They also encouraged the government to facilitate …

… policy, finding that a single Brazilian businessman stripped 50,000 acres of trees from land he purchased. And on the urban front, Sara DeWeerdt at the Anthropocene explains …

… One project his group supports is the Great Green Wall, which aims to plant millions of trees in the Sahel region to stop desertification. Back on the bridge outside the blue zone, the …