Evidence of forest structure and fires in pre-industrial dry forests—major forests covering ~26 million hectares (64 million acres) of the western U.S.—provides an essential historical baseline. Dry forests are dominated ...
In our modern era of larger, more destructive, and longer-lasting fires—called the Pyrocene—plants and animals are evolving quickly to survive.
Evolution
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Global warming and drastic deforestation could dry out the Amazon rainforest faster and enforce the risk of keeping it downright fire-trapped. A new study published in Communications Earth & Environment shows that fire can ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 13, 2023
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Subsoils are the largest storehouses for carbon, as well as one of the most important sources of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Global warming is accelerating the decomposition of soil humus. It is also affecting the waxy ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 14, 2023
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The vast northern forests of Canada and Alaska are shifting northwards as a result of climate change. What's more, the shift is faster at the southern boreal boundaries than the northern ones. This mismatch indicates that ...
Environment
Jun 13, 2023
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In the quarter century between 1996 and 2020, wildfires in California consumed five times more area than they did from 1971 to 1995. Researchers at the University of California and other international institutions have concluded ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 13, 2023
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In a first, US climate scientists have quantified the extent to which greenhouse gasses from the world's top fossil fuel companies have contributed to wildfires.
Environment
May 16, 2023
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Paleontologists from Brazil and Chile reveal an important discovery about the past of the most inhospitable continent on Earth, Antarctica. Today covered in snow, in the past, however, the location was not like this. The ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Apr 27, 2023
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Keeping tree diversity intact in Canada's many forests over the long term can help increase carbon capture and mitigate climate change, according to a new University of Alberta study.
Plants & Animals
Apr 26, 2023
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A combined team of environmental scientists from Stanford University and the University of California, Irvine, has found that increases in the frequency of severe wildfires in California has been reducing the ability of forests ...
