the.com/forest
the original internet, where trees text each other underground in chemical Morse code
means A large area of land densely covered with trees and undergrowth, forming its own dense ecosystem.
from From Old French 'forest,' which came from Medieval Latin 'forestis (silva),' meaning the 'outside woods' — land kept apart, often for royal hunting. The root is thought to be Latin 'foris,' meaning 'outside' or 'out of doors,' a cousin of 'foreign' and 'door.' So a forest was originally less about trees than about jurisdiction: the wild beyond the cultivated edge, where the king's deer roamed under the king's law.
- wood wide web
- Fungal networks let trees share food and warnings
- oldest member
- A clonal forest in Utah is 80,000 years old
- oxygen myth
- Mature forests consume nearly as much oxygen as they make
- rain machine
- The Amazon creates much of its own rainfall
- dark secret
- Old-growth canopies block 95 percent of sunlight
amazon rainforest — 5.5 million km² across 9 countries, produces ~20% of world's oxygen
taiga — largest terrestrial biome, stretches across russia, canada, and scandinavia
daintree rainforest — oldest rainforest on earth in queensland, australia, 180 million years old
black forest — baden-württemberg germany, 6,000 km² of dense coniferous woodland