Instead of planting trees, give forests back to people
It might sound counterintuitive, but empowering locals to manage forests is an excellent way to preserve them. That strategy can even bring dwindling forests…
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How Prescribed Burns Can Help Restore Eastern US Forests
By mid-afternoon, the team had seemingly painted fire onto the land, burning exactly where and what they wanted. The mature pines’ lower trunks were singed…
To Resurrect Jordan’s Lost Forests, People Plant Tiny Urban Ones
The team’s test plots also host some of Jordan’s rarest flora. In Marka, that includes saplings of Pistacia lentiscus, the wild pistachio tree—there are only…
European earthworms reduce insect populations in North American forests: Researchers recommend…
Earthworms introduced into northern North America have a negative impact on the insect fauna above ground. Soil ecologists found this impact for abundance as…
Can Synthetic Palm Oil Help Save the World’s Tropical Forests?
Over Zoom, Kelleher showed off a bluish photo of Xylome’s proprietary yeast strain, developed from an oil-producing species called Lipomyces starkeyi.…
How Bezos’ latest plan to protect forests could backfire
Jeff Bezos’ $2 billion plan, announced last week, to plant trees and restore landscapes across Africa and the US has already raised red flags for some…
Forests can’t handle all the net-zero emissions plans. Companies and countries expect nature…
Annual atmospheric CO2 record from ice core data before 1958, measurements at Mauna…
The (Very Slow) Race to Move Forests in Time to Save Them
Wright countered that it’s not until about 10 years into a study that the data starts to be meaningful. “That’s when I start to believe it,” she said. So…
Amazon: Regrowing forests have offset less than 10 per cent of carbon emissions from deforestation
Oxford/Lancaster (UK), August 21
Driven largely by the expansion of farm land to meet increasing global…
Shrinking forests concern for seed dispersal by birds: Study
New Delhi, July 25
Do you know how does a forest re-generate naturally? Do you know the role played by…