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Is cutting trees always a bad thing?

Kamalini Nagarajan March 22, 2024

https://youtu.be/tT-FR41GMIc When companies harvest wood, they select an area of land and cut down every single tree within that region, and destroy the habitat for years to come. However, harvesting...

Christmas Tree Genetics works to help farms like this one to produce the best trees possible. Through cross breeding and other methods of genetic manipulation, the organization has already made improvements to the modern Christmas Tree. (Sara Hina/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Geneticists Develop Better Christmas Trees

Kieri Karpa, Layout Manager January 5, 2018

The modern Christmas tree isn’t natural. Almost all commercialized plants go through some form of genetic manipulation. From breeding to DNA manipulation, the modern Christmas tree is no stranger...

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