New York to clone ancient trees

In an effort to change the image of a city of skyscrapers and concrete sidewalks, New York plans to clone one million trees from branches on a list of 25 “historical” trees, some of which are more than 100 years old, DPA reports from New York. The city's Park Commissioner Adrian Benap York announced the project after sending high school students to work on hydraulic-powered buckets to begin taking the upper branches of some of the city's oldest trees for scientific study and cloning.

The cloning programme is a part of a project callled Million Tree NYC which was launched in 2007.