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#1306962021-10-12
To save forests, researchers are hooking trees up to Twitter
In July 2018, a century-old red oak went live on Twitter. The account @awitnesstree, tweeting from the Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts, introduces itself in its bio:
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#1307452021-10-13
To predict forest loss in protected areas, look at nearby unprotected forest
Protected forests, such as those in national parks, are unlikely to be cut down when surrounded by intact forests. Conversely, when a protected forest’s neighboring lands are degraded, it’s likely that deforestation will encroach into the protected area as well, according to a new study.
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#1256072020-11-09
To plant or not to plant: weighing methods of forest regeneration
The role of trees in the biological functioning of many natural ecosystems cannot be overstated. A healthy forest can retain water to prevent droughts, provide food for local animals and people, and keep planet-warming carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere.
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#1270672021-02-15
To keep forests intact, we must use them
Forests are my passion. I grew up on forestland in the U.S. South and am a conservationist to the core. But those who assert that trees used for bioenergy simply “release carbon that would otherwise stay locked up in forests” misunderstand science, economics, history and the motivations of priva ...
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#1322402021-12-21
To end illegal deforestation, Brazil may legalize it entirely, experts warn
Governmental actions have fueled skepticism about Brazil’s real commitment to its climate goals and pledges the country embraced at the COP26 U.N. climate summit.
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#1263722020-12-21
Time for some home truths about deforestation
To prevent future pandemics, we must stop deforestation and end the illegal wildlife trade. Do you agree? Of course you do, because what’s not to like? The buck stops with the evil other. The question is, will doing those things solve the problem?
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#1219352019-08-19
Tigers are vanishing outside protected areas in the northeast
Many forests outside protected areas in Northeast India have lost their tiger populations over the last century, though there is an overall increase in tiger numbers as per the latest census report.
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#1186372018-10-23
This video of a forest “breathing” has Twitter freaking out
With Halloween just around the corner, things that seem even a little mysterious or out of the ordinary are getting people all excited. That’s probably why Twitter is collectively freaking out about a video which appears to show a forest “breathing”.
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#1242862020-02-21
This is not a forest
Have we forgotten the inherently tangled, interdependent nature of ecosystems, the ecological value of old-growth, the microcosm of habitats provided by diversity?
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#1311912021-10-26
This Is How It Ends: Why our forest 'lungs' are dying
They are our lungs. But New Zealand’s treasured native forests are facing a range of deadly threats, including kauri dieback, myrtle rust and exploding deer numbers. Andrea Vance and Iain McGregor report, for Stuff’s This is How it Ends series.
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#1342682022-05-04
These seed-firing drones are planting 40,000 trees every day to fight deforestation
Let’s face it. Talk about biodiversity loss at a party and you’re unlikely to make friends. Talk about an army of seed-firing drones, however, and suddenly you’re the coolest person there.
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#1297022021-07-27
These are the 10 key actions needed to save the Amazon rainforest, scientists say
The Amazon rainforest is a mega-diverse ecosystem that is home to 35 million people and 1 in 10 of Earth’s known species. But its survival hangs in the balance. Deforestation and climate change have seen the Amazon rainforest lose a fifth of its forest cover in 50 years.
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#1234402019-12-13
These Rat-Eating Monkeys Are Helping Protect Palm Oil Harvests
Found as an ingredient in many processed and packaged foods, palm oil is the most widely consumed vegetable oil. Now, researchers reporting in Current Biology have discovered an unlikely ally for palm oil production: pig-tailed macaques.
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#1222032019-09-12
There Is More Money In The Borneo Rainforest’s Biodiversity Than In Its Deforestation
Some of the last remaining primary forests of Southeast Asia are found in Borneo, a biodiversity hotspot where you can still walk through ancient forests and prehistoric caves. The heavy wing beats of helmeted hornbills brings you a little closer to what it may have been like when pterodactyls d ...
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#1278792021-04-05
The world deforested the equivalent of all of Switzerland in the year of the pandemic
In the year of the pandemic, the world stopped, & mldr; but not deforestation. In 2020 tropical forests decreased by 12%, despite the fact that human activity had slowed down considerably. In addition, at various times of the year the demand for items that promote deforestation, such as palm oil ...
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#1225502019-10-07
The unrecognized cost of Indonesia’s fires (commentary)
Three decades ago, scientists surveying the forests of Malaysian Borneo discovered a plant extract that killed HIV in a test tube. When they returned to the field site to collect more samples, they were surprised to find the peat forest had been cleared. Subsequent surveys in the region proved f ...
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#1223572019-09-25
The thinning fabric of Earth’s forest cover (commentary)
Forests don’t have it easy. Even when they escape being cleared for farmland, pastures, or cities, many of them are battered by a variety of other human pressures. Damage to forests (often termed degradation) is by definition less severe in a given location than outright deforestation, but it af ...
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#1342672022-05-04
The story of Bremji Kul, Kashmir’s sacred tree
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “the creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” A few hundred years ago, the Kashmir Valley was a gathering place for spiritual activities, a holy place that attracted dozens of men and women and encouraged them to live a life closer to God.
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#1351172022-06-29
The roots of sustainability: 5 reasons why cities need trees
As most cities and countries continue to report hotter summer days that are breaking 100-year records, indoor cooling can offer only little respite and to the privileged few.
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#1211012019-05-20
The rare rainforests of Scotland in urgent rescue bid
Some of Scotland’s largest nature conservation organisations are joining forces to save the country’s dwindling rainforests.
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#1246482020-03-12
The planet’s largest ecosystems could ‘unravel fast’
Thanks to their sheer size giant ecosystems like the Amazon’s rainforests are relatively impervious to environmental stresses compared to smaller ones. Or so we tend to think.
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#1205522019-03-28
The paramedics of the rainforest
A new generation of data collectors and support scientists are proving vital to the overall health of the rainforest ecosystem – just like paramedics – thanks to projects funded through the UK Government’s Darwin Initiative.
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#1208502019-04-25
The natural comeback of tropical rainforests in the savanna region
Artificial savanna naturally turns into tropical rainforest when annual burning regimes are discontinued.
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#1207432019-04-12
The mysterious karstland forests of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Among the jagged rocks, sinkholes and caves carved out of limestone, Baratang in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands also houses a species-rich, diverse forest that is quite different from the surrounding tropical evergreen forest typical of the inland areas of the islands.
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#1270682021-02-15
The mysterious existence of a leafless kauri stump, kept alive by its forest neighbours
Plants use their leaves to make food from the sun’s energy and carbon dioxide. With very few exceptions of parasitic plants, no tree is known to grow without green foliage — or to be more precise, no tree can start life without leaves or some sort of green tissue containing chlorophyll.
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#1191762018-12-21
The importance of Mongolia’s boreal forests
Every year as the sun warms and the days lengthen, 28-year-old Baganatsooj moves his herds to their summer pastures outside the town of Tunkhel in Mongolia’s far northern Selenge province – a nomadic lifestyle his ancestors have practiced for thousands of years.
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#1231442019-11-27
The impact of the soil microbiota on the mitigation of greenhouse gases in tropical forests
The impact of the soil microbiota on the mitigation of greenhouse gases in tropical forests was the topic of a lecture given by Tsai Siu Mui, a professor and vice-director at CENA-USP.
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#1206112019-04-02
The hotter it gets, the more forests act as insulators
Using data from about 100 sites worldwide, an international research team has demonstrated that forest cover acts as a global thermal insulator by cooling the understory when the air temperature is high.
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#1312552021-10-28
The global economy depends on forests – let’s act accordingly
The world’s economy is currently a free rider on the vital services forests provide. This system needs to be replaced by investment into forest protection which sees trees as what they are – the natural infrastructure our economy is dependent on, argues Daniel J. Zarin.
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#1320212021-12-02
The future of habitat restoration: the Atlantic Forest way
From new forest corridors to the production of shade-grown commodities, restoration work in the Atlantic Forest of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay is crossing country borders and taking landscape conservation into new realms of ingenuity.
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#1211172019-05-21
The future of forests: How to balance development with conservation?
Preserving and restoring the world’s forests is arguably the most important thing humanity can do to keep the climate crisis in check as global carbon emissions continue to rise.
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#1206272019-04-04
The forests protected by deities
India has a long tradition of conserving nature by giving it a spiritual dimension. There is a symbiotic relationship between the biophysical ecosystem and socio-economic institutions. Culture and environment are complementary yet dynamic. The various cultural connections are expressed through m ...
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#1229632019-11-11
The forests of the Amazon are an important carbon sink
The world's tropical forests store huge quantities of carbon in their biomass and thus constitute an important carbon sink. However, current estimates of the amount of carbon dioxide stored in tropical forests of the Amazon vary largely. Scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Resea ...
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#1286852021-05-17
The first mangrove forest with full carbon calculation enters the carbon market
For the first time since scientists recognized the carbon-sequestration power of mangroves, known as blue carbon, the carbon value of a mangrove ecosystem – a 11,000-hectare mangrove forest in Cispata, Colombia – has been fully calculated. The new measurement accounts for not just the roots, tru ...
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#1244102020-02-27
The evolving story of India’s forests
From covering 640,819 square kilometres (19.49 percent) of India’s total land area in 1987 to covering 712,249 sq. km. (21.67 percent) of the country’s geographical area in 2019, India’s forest sector has had a roller coaster journey with many twists and turns.
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#1289502021-06-01
The dangers of deforestation for our planet
Commentary: In recent years, the area of tropical rainforests has decreased at an alarming rate. Strengthening of global cooperation and restoring degraded and damaged forests have become a major focus of international relations, with the survival of forests closely related to the sustainability ...
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#1290192021-06-02
The dangers of deforestation for our planet
Forests are an important part of the global ecosystem. Due to factors such as population and agricultural expansion, deforestation and illegal timber trade, current forest protection is facing a severe situation.
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#1275532021-03-05
The collapse of Northern California kelp forests will be hard to reverse
Satellite imagery shows that the area covered by kelp forests off the coast of Northern California has dropped by more than 95 percent, with just a few small, isolated patches of bull kelp remaining. Species-rich kelp forests have been replaced by "urchin barrens," where purple sea urchins cover ...
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#1194152019-01-16
The case for forests’ prominent role in holding off climate change
Most scientists and experts agree that forests are critical to stabilizing the global climate, and the 2015 Paris climate agreement recognized the need to “conserve and enhance” their carbon sequestration potential.
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#1214262019-06-28
The boreal forest is North America’s bird nursery — and we must protect it
Canada is not immune to the global biodiversity crisis. A new report on the state of Canada’s birds that shows perilous declines in birds from a wide range of Canadian habitats makes that abundantly clear.
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#1292392021-06-11
The biodiversity of the Amazon could be a global granary against the food insecurity of the planet, it says in article – 06/10/2021 – Environment
The biodiversity of the forests in the Amazon and worldwide is not only important as a refuge for native species or as a storage facility for greenhouse gases. It can also be viewed as a global granary that plays an important role in the food security of the planet, say two Brazilian researchers.
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#1255682020-11-05
The biggest trees capture the most carbon: Large trees dominate carbon storage in forests
Older, large-diameter trees have been shown to store disproportionally massive amounts of carbon compared to smaller trees, highlighting their importance in mitigating climate change, according to a new study in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. Researchers examined the aboveground carbon ...
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#1223682019-09-25
The big picture of the Amazon fires
In Brazil's dry season between May and September, forest fires are common. But for much of the year, big fires in areas like the Amazon are rare because wet weather prevents them from starting and spreading.
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#1255542020-11-04
The beekeeper protecting Kosovo's forests
Kosovo's Sharr Mountains National Park is a paradise of biodiversity under threat. A local beekeper is working to save it through education.
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#1339302022-04-06
The amazing — and unknown — diversity of insects living in the Amazon canopy
Small and often imperceptible to the human eye, insects play a vital role in the environment. “They appeared more than 400 million years before humans,” says Dalton de Souza Amorim, a researcher from the University of São Paulo.
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#1285122021-05-07
The Wolf Tree and the World Wide Web
I WIPED MY glasses and glanced nervously through the trees. Fresh bear prints were climbing from the creek toward the hillcrest. I fumbled through the back of my vest and found my bear spray. I pulled off the safety, just in case.
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#1296022021-07-22
The Tarkine rainforest transports you back in time – and perhaps to a future where we value Australia’s remaining treasures
Australian wildlife. Koalas, platypus, wallabies. We use them as our emblems, put them on our coins, name our sporting teams after them and companies use them as logos. Echidnas, dingoes, kangaroos
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#1224762019-10-02
The Path to a Profitable and Protected Amazon
The Amazon is burning. Physically, the world has seen more deforestation and fires in Brazil’s portion of the Amazon this year than at any other point in nearly a decade. But figuratively, a conflagration over economic development in the region blazes even more fiercely.
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#1323202022-01-05
The Old Man and the Tree
I meet Bob Leverett in a small gravel parking lot at the end of a quiet residential road in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. We are at the Ice Glen trailhead, half a mile from a Mobil station, and Leverett, along with his wife, Monica Jakuc Leverett, is going to show me one of New England’s rare pock ...
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#1346112022-05-19
The Forest Forecast
These are strange times for the Indigenous Nenets reindeer herders of northern Siberia. In their lands on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, bare tundra is thawing, bushes are sprouting, and willows that a generation ago struggled to reach knee height now grow 3 meters tall, hiding the reindeer. Su ...