Ten years ago this week, Hurricane Katrina ripped through New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, bringing floods and gale-force winds that devastated the region and displaced more than a million people. But New Orleans’ live oaks were surprisingly resilient, as biologist Janine Benyus describes in our first episode of a new video series on biomimicry, Think Like a Tree. As the tallest living things on earth, trees have developed strategies to protect themselves against threats…
Think like a tree: Learning from the oaks that survived Katrina
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