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#1 The British Isles were once covered in a forest, but it was cut down by humans.
#2 The first wave of vegetative cover after the last ice age in Britain resulted in a patchy forest that was dominated by the birch. The pine tree arrived suddenly, and spread rapidly across Scotland.
#3 The first wave of vegetative cover after the last ice age in Britain resulted in...
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"In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing account of the "lung" at the top of the world. For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence's The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, to meet the scientists, residents and trees confronting huge geological changes. Only the hardest...
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