Forestry front and centre at the Oscars

• Best Documentary Feature nominee If a Tree Falls: A story of the Earth Liberation Front examines a radical environmental group's clashes with timber companies and the law in the late '90s.

How might climate change stress and ultimately kill trees?

• Like humans, trees may be more likely to die of thirst than hunger as a result of stress responses to climate change, according to a study reported in the New York Times last week.

Toronto's balmy winter might be nice for commuters, but it can be tough on urban trees

• CEO of Trees Ontario Rob Keen, BScF '82, and Ralph Toninger, MScF '97 and Manager of Habitat Restoration at the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, talk about fluctuating temperatures' effects on the urban forest in this Toronto Star article.