National Geographic - UK (2022-05)

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SAVING FURTHER MAY 2022 On the Cover In California’s Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, research on the effects of climate ...

Still Standing Tall From beeches in Italy to laurels on Madeira, a photographer highlights the many wonders of European old-grow ...

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TROPIC OF CANCER AMERICA NORTH AMERICA FORESTS, FOR LIFE SPECIAL ISSUE: SAVING FORESTS DESPITE SEEING the forest for the trees, ...

EQUATOR TROPIC OF (^) CAPRICORN ARCTIC CIRCLE EUROPE AFRICA ASIA AUSTRALIA Tree canopy height Shortest Tallest Today, forests (s ...

LOOKING AT THE EARTH FROM EVERY POSSIBLE ANGLE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC VOL. 241 NO. 5 PROOF STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY ORSOLYA HAARBER ...

STILL STANDING TALL Italy’s Abruzzo, Lazio, and Molise National Park is home to some of the oldest beech forests in Europe. Than ...

PROOF In the Abruzzo region of Italy, these beeches (top) are bedecked with abundant lichens, a characteristic of old-growth for ...

String bogs in northern Sweden feature ridges that link small islands of coniferous forests (top). Laurel forests—found in Madei ...

PROOF The laurel forest of Madeira, a Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic, is inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List ...

Growing at an altitude ranging from about 1,000 to 5,000 feet, the laurels are found in the ribbon of mist that frequently wraps ...

PROOF In this spot in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains, the tree line is marked with Norway spruces, which are sculpted in winter ...

THE HOLLOWED-OUT TRUNK of the ancient yellow cedar felt like a cocoon with its soft floor of bark strips. A mother bear had mold ...

and they work to fend off the timber company aiming to clear-cut this forest. Half a dozen young men and women had greeted me on ...

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EXPLORE | THE BIG IDEA I persevered (see “The ‘Wood-Wide Web,’ Explained,” on this page). “DO YOU HEAR THUMPING?” I asked nervou ...