Tag: chalara

• Facebook Game Uses Crowdsourcing to Tackle Ash Die Back Disease

  Britain’s estimated 80 million ash trees are under threat, with scientists fearing that the Chalara fungus – known ash ash die back disease – could prove as deadly to the UK’s woodlands as Dutch elm disease was in the 1970s, killing millions of trees. In Denmark, the impact of ash die back was devastating, with…

  Written by

  Alice Bonasio

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  August 16, 2013

  2–4 minutes