New York City's Hidden Old-Growth Forests
New York City's Hidden Old-Growth Forests Tree-Ring Scientists Are Salvaging Centuries of Climate and Historical Data From Demolished Structures Tree-ring scientists from Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory are extracting climate and historical information from timbers salvaged out of old New York City buildings. Here, joists are carted away from the 2018 demolition of a circa 1890s warehouse in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood. (Alan Solomon) In the popular imagination, New York City is a mass of soaring steel-frame skyscrapers. But many of the city’s 1 million buil...
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