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2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Three people evacuating in a minibus are killed by Russian shelling near Kherson Oblast, according to Ukraine's Operational Command South. (The Guardian) Disasters and accidents. Fifty-three people are injured after a suspected gas leak in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. Health and environment
Longleaf pine takes 100 to 150 years to become full size and may live to be 500 years old. When young, they grow a long taproot , which usually is 2–3 metres ( 6 + 1 ⁄ 2 –10 feet) long; by maturity, they have a wide spreading lateral root system with several deep 'sinker' roots.
In 1969, the Pine Barrens averaged a density of 15 inhabitants per square mile (5.8/km 2), compared with 1,000 inhabitants per square mile (390/km 2) in the lands bordering it. With rising environmental concerns at the time, people became alerted to the possible destruction of the Pine Barrens and its aquifer by urban sprawl .
A dendrochronology, based on these trees and other bristlecone pine samples, extends back to about 9000 BC, albeit with a single gap of about 500 years. [20] [3] An older bristlecone pine was reportedly discovered by Tom Harlan in 2009, based on a sample core collected in 1957. According to Harlan, the tree was 5,062 years old and still living ...
The European pine marten's presence in Southern England's New Forest was confirmed in 2021, and they are now breeding there. [15] [16] In September 2022, the first European pine marten to be seen in London in a century was spotted by the Zoological Society of London's wildlife cameras as part of a hedgehog monitoring program. [17]
The Pine Gulch Fire was a wildfire that burned in Mesa County and Garfield County, Colorado in the United States.The fire was started by a lightning strike and first reported on July 31, 2020, and quickly grew, resulting in the fire being named the largest wildfire in Colorado history, surpassing the 2002 Hayman Fire. [3]
Pinus sabiniana trees typically grow to 11–14 metres (36–45 ft), but can reach 32 m (105 ft). The pine needles are in fascicles (bundles) of three, distinctively pale gray-green, sparse and drooping, and grow to 20–30 centimetres (8–12 in) in length.
461 – Majorian is arrested near Tortona (northern Italy) and deposed by the Suebian general Ricimer as puppet emperor. 932 – After a two-year siege, the city of Toledo , in Spain , surrenders to the forces of the Caliph of Córdoba Abd al-Rahman III , assuming an important victory in his campaign to subjugate the Central March .