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#1246282020-03-11
First 'tiny forest' being planted in UK
Some 600 native trees from oaks, birches and elder to dogwood, crab apple and blackthorn will be planted in Witney, Oxfordshire.The UK is to get its first "Tiny Forest" in a plot the size of a tennis court to deliver benefits to urban communities and wildlife.
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#1245772020-03-09
Tropical forests may be heating Earth by 2035
Climate change so far has meant more vigorous forest growth as greenhouse gases rise. The tropical forests may soon change that.
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#1245602020-03-06
Cambodia: Building a Nested System to Protect Remaining Forests
While many in the REDD+ community argue over whether project or national scale crediting is better, Cambodia is creating a system to enable both—recognizing that reversing deforestation requires both national policies and local actions.
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#1245472020-03-05
Tropical forests losing their ability to absorb carbon, study finds
Tropical forests are taking up less carbon dioxide from the air, reducing their ability to act as “carbon sinks” and bringing closer the prospect of accelerating climate breakdown.
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#1245492020-03-05
Environmental measures in Swedish forests will continue to be strong
In a recent opinion piece, a group of NGOs wrote that Sweden’s forest policy is wreaking havoc. Herman Sundqvist argues that this is wrong on several counts and that the country is working to improve environmental measures in the forest.
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#1245502020-03-05
Yes, this is a forest
‘We understand the value of forests beyond the price tag of timber. We recognise that our forests are crucial for wildlife to survive.‘ Tesni Clare made some interesting points in the article ‘This is not a forest’, recently published in The Ecologist, not least about the importance of healthy f ...
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#1244822020-03-03
For Mexico’s forgotten cloud forests, sustainability and protection are key
In 2009, scientists estimated that Mexico’s tropical montane cloud forests — hillside woodlands blanketed in fog and rain — were down to 28% of their original extent. Fifty-three percent of what was left was considered secondary forest, regenerated from primary forest that had been cleared for a ...
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#1244832020-03-03
Directed species loss greatly reduces forest productivity: study
Scientists from China, Switzerland and Germany have discovered that directed species loss can severely hamper productivity in already diverse young forests.
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#1244842020-03-03
How India’s idea of forest has evolved over the decades
From covering 640,819 square kilometres (19.49%) of India’s total land area in 1987 to covering 712,249 sq km (21.67%) of the country’s geographical area in 2019, India’s forest cover has had a roller coaster journey.
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#1244212020-02-28
Your Environment This Week: Medicinal plants that heal, saving sparrows and Karnataka’s barefoot ecologist
From covering 19.49% of India’s land area in 1987 to 21.6% in 2019, India’s forest sector has had a roller coaster journey. We examine this via the lens of India’s State of Forest Reports.
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#1244232020-02-28
New England Forests Were Historically Shaped by Climate, Not People
In the past several decades, prescribed burns have been integrated into land management policies in the United States. This active approach to conservation is driven, in part, by the belief that people have been using fire to shape American landscapes for thousands of years.
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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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#1243882020-02-26
How South Africa’s mangrove forests store carbon and why it matters
Scientists around the world are looking for ways to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This gas is a natural component of the atmosphere, released by processes of respiration and decomposition of organic matter.
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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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#1242382020-02-19
Small but precious: small forest patches act as islands and corridors of biodiversity
Indian forest officer Rai Singh Jhala skirts the edge of the Monsoon Palace at Sajjangarh, perched high in the Aravalli hills just outside Udaipur city, in the west Indian state of Rajasthan.
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#1242472020-02-19
Country diary: smells like evergreen spirit
I love the smell of conifer resin in the morning. Here, on a skin-tingling frosty day, with the first rays of sunshine skimming the treetops, it scented the shadowy depths of the forest.
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#1242092020-02-18
Amazon forest disturbance is changing how plants are dispersed
Disturbance also led to a significant shift towards small-seeded species, which are more likely to be dispersed by smaller animals like birds and bats.
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#1241952020-02-17
Spillover: encroachment into forests increases risk of contracting diseases from animals
Over the past two decades, scientists have been alarmed by the rapid spread of an infectious disease transmitted by tick bites that afflict forest-dwellers in the verdant, biodiverse tropical forests of the Western Ghats running parallel to India’s west coast. Caused by a virus, Kyasanur Forest ...
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#1241772020-02-14
Why Paraguay Can Be a “Beacon State” for Forest Management
Imagine a forest that covered half of your entire country. A biodiverse forest which supports thousands of species from giant anteaters to armadillos to jaguars. A forest that is home to one the world’s last uncontacted tribes.1
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#1241392020-02-13
Naturalists amazed at sighting of extremely rare Scottish 'rainforest' fungus
A rainforest fungus rarely seen in countries around the world has been spotted. Naturalists were flabbergasted by the finding during their recent trip to Dunollie Wood on the Isle of Luing, west coast of Scotland.
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#1241352020-02-11
Adopt a carbon tax to protect tropical forests
Deforestation must be stopped in tropical countries to tackle the existential threats of climate change and biodiversity loss. The vast majority of Earth’s species are in the tropics; forests there have taken in much of the carbon added to the atmosphere by human activities.
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#1241092020-02-06
Rewarding Sustainable Forest Management practices will enhance biodiversity and climate resilience of #EUForests
The European paper industry has a strategic interest in keeping healthy and growing forests in Europe. We offer a wide range of renewable and recyclable wood fibre-based solutions to EU citizens, from packaging to textile, including hygiene and tissue products, and our raw material comes mainly ...
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#1240872020-02-05
Charcoal-coated seedballs are re-planting Kenya’s lost forests.
Teddy Kinyanjui, one of Seedballs Kenya's co-founders, is on a mission to reverse Kenya's deforestation. The seedballs' charcoal coating protects the seeds inside and helps local trees repopulate deforested areas.
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#1240882020-02-05
Forest soils recovering from effects of acid rain
Before the United States 1970 Clean Air Act, rainfall all over the country was acidic. As precipitation would fall from the sky, it would mix with gases from industrial plants, emissions from cars, and especially coal and fossil fuel consumption. That caused the water to become acidic – also cal ...
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#1240562020-02-03
Tropical Peatlands ‘Haemorrhage’ Fossil Carbon
Deforestation is causing carbon dioxide to leak from tropical forests far faster than anyone had suspected, says a team of scientists who have studied the process in south-east Asia.
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#1240732020-02-03
Life in dead wood
From which tree species dead wood is needed and under which conditions should it be located in order to promote biodiversity in forests as much as possible? According to Dr. Thorn, very little is known about this question so far. To address this research gap, the Forest Enterprise Ebrach and the ...
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#1240742020-02-03
Australian bushfires-why they are unprecedented
Australia has extraordinarily high levels of biodiversity and is one of 17 countries with ‘megadiversity’ of plant, insect and animal life. Of the more than 600,000 predicted species in Australia, only 30% have so far been discovered, documented and named.
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#1239812020-01-28
Massive effort to document the genetics of European forests bears fruit
Faced with deforestation, climate change, invasive pests, and new diseases, many trees are in trouble. Foresters and conservationists are scrambling to save them, but can’t protect every stand of woods. And prioritizing which places—and even which individual trees—warrant preservation has been a ...
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#1239292020-01-24
Fifteen Years to Save the Amazon Rainforest from Becoming Savannah
The pace of deforestation in the Amazon, coupled with last year’s devastating forest fires, has pushed the world’s largest rainforest close to a tipping point beyond which it will turn from a carbon sink to a carbon source.
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#1238812020-01-22
Pakistan- An individual grows forest in Buner to fight climate change impacts
The government spends billions of rupees on tree plantation campaigns every year, but in Buner district of KP, there is a citizen who was personally contributed to plantation more than the government by purchasing 240 kanals land and decorating it with a thick forest including all kind of trees.
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#1238382020-01-21
Madagascar launches massive planting drive, eyes 60 million trees
Madagascar has embarked on its most ambitious tree-planting drive yet, aiming to plant 60 million trees in the coming months. The island nation celebrates 60 years of independence this year, and the start of the planting campaign on Jan. 19 marked one year since the inauguration of President And ...
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#1238072020-01-20
Fires set stage for irreversible forest losses in Australia
Australia's forests are burning at a rate unmatched in modern times and scientists say the landscape is being permanently altered as a warming climate brings profound changes to the island continent.
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#1238112020-01-20
California’s trees could shift as global warming forces birds to move out
Forests are critical to slowing climate change because they soak up huge amounts of heat-trapping carbon dioxide. Birds help keep forests healthy by eating insects that spread tree-killing diseases. Birds also scatter seeds that give rise to new trees. If birds leave, the forests could be in tro ...
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#1237832020-01-17
Reforestation is not necessarily about planting more trees
Last year, the journal Science published a study that made a bold - and elegantly simple - claim: To mitigate climate change, plant a trillion new trees.
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#1237842020-01-17
Forest-dependent communities of Odisha find LPG an unnecessary, unaffordable luxury
Cooking gas is an unnecessary luxury, said Simaru Kandi from Musapada village in Odisha’s Puri district. “Nature has given us all resources to lead a bountiful life,” explained Simaru. “Whenever we need firewood, we go, pick some dry branches from the forest near the village. At other times we u ...
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#1237592020-01-16
Trees struggle when forests become too small
As forest areas shrink and become fragmented, many tree species face problems. They often rely on animals that can no longer disperse their seeds effectively.
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#1236882020-01-13
Miyawaki forests take root and spread in Madurai
A stroll at Walkers’ Park on the bank of Vandiyur Tank at K.K. Nagar would reveal a copse of different species and varying heights on a small patch of land. “There is a visible growth of trees in a short span of eight months. The guava tree, for instance, is now more than 10 feet tall,” says A.A ...
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#1236072020-01-07
Balance ecology and economy
The environment ministry has proposed a controversial scheme through which infrastructure projects involving diversion of forest land could compensate for loss of forests by buying ready-made plantations.
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#1235772020-01-06
Biodiverse forests better at storing carbon for long periods, says study
As the effects of climate change are increasingly felt around the world, possible solutions—from reducing fossil fuel emissions to capturing carbon—have come to dominate policy discussions. Planting new forests and restoring existing ones have emerged as some of the best ways to capture CO2, sin ...
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#1235572019-12-20
Oireachtas committee: Farmers should champion the planting of forests to tackle climate change
The promotion of forestry to tackle climate change needs to be championed by farmers if rural Ireland is to embrace afforestation, an Oireachtas committee has heard
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#1235582019-12-20
385-million-year-old tree root reveals world's oldest modern forest
The discovery of ancient tree roots in the Catskills, near the town of Cairo, New York, suggests modern forests emerged earlier than scientists thought. Researchers described the 385-million-year-old root system in a new paper, published this week in the journal Current Biology.
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#1235592019-12-20
From seeds to forests: How one man is growing Thailand’s future
Nopporn Nontapha had always wanted to take care of forests, but this dream was initially shattered when the Thai government rejected his application for a forestry job. Thirty years later, though, he’s managed to grow a vast network of over 30,000 tree-planting volunteers across Thailand, all be ...
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#1235602019-12-20
Innovative peatland restoration efforts key to mitigating climate change
Indonesia is home to an extensive area of tropical peatlands, which are carbon-rich ecosystems that are critical for supporting biodiversity and the livelihoods of local forest-dependent communities. Between 30 and 40 percent of global carbon is locked in peatlands, although they cover only arou ...
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#1235322019-12-19
B.C.'s clear-cut forests are 'dead zones,' emitting more greenhouse gases than fossil fuels, report finds
The clear-cutting of B.C.'s forests is contributing more to greenhouse gases than the burning of fossil fuels, according to a new report from the Sierra Club of B.C. The report found that 3.6 million hectares of old-growth and second-growth forests were clear-cut in the province between 2005 and ...
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#1235142019-12-18
More forest patches, healthier diets
Poor diets have become a major global health concern, as people with overweight or micronutrient deficiencies have come to outnumber those who are hungry or under-nourished, according to a leading scientist.
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#1234682019-12-17
Sri Lanka’s Sinharaja rainforest reserve to be quadrupled in size
Sri Lanka plans to quadruple the size of the protected area inside its last viable rainforest, in a nod to the ecological significance of the region.
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#1234762019-12-17
Wildfire's impact on water quality
A wildfire's path of destruction is not limited to things that burn—water is at risk too. When fires jump from forests and grasslands to urban areas, they incinerate household and industrial items such as computers and cars, leaving behind a stew of chemicals and heavy metals.
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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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#1234072019-12-12
Supertrees: Meet Congo’s caretaker of the forest
A pair of 70 horsepower outboard motors cut the river journey westward, from the city of Kisangani, to just two hours. By the more common motorized barges — floating cities in their own right, bursting with commerce and chaos — the journey is four times longer.
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#1234302019-12-12
Mites can change their diet depending on environmental conditions
The transformation and degradation of natural landscapes due to human activities has been intensifying for several decades. This is especially true for forestland: its area decreases each year, especially in tropical regions.