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Making the most of a tree epidemic

  • Written by Sasa Zivkovic, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Cornell University
imageEmerald ash borer larvae is removed from an ash tree in Saugerties, N.Y.AP Photo/Mike Groll

A large portion of North America’s 8.7 billion ash trees are now infested by a beetle called the emerald ash borer.

Since its discovery in the U.S. in 2002, the emerald ash borer has killed hundreds of millions of ash trees, drastically transforming...

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