Gruelling talks are unfolding in Bonn for implementing the UN's Paris Agreement on climate change, but many kilometres (miles) away, there are fears that any progress may be wiped out by a lurking carbon threat.
Environment
Nov 8, 2017
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With changing environments, pond-breeding salamanders face increasingly hazardous treks as the space between breeding ponds and their non-breeding habitat widens or is degraded. A study from the University of Missouri suggests ...
Ecology
Aug 9, 2017
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Forests and trees play a major role on water cycles and cooler temperatures, contributing to food security and climate change adaptation. In recent decades, the climate change discourse has looked at forests and trees mostly ...
Environment
Mar 20, 2017
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Major forest die-offs due to drought, heat and beetle infestations or deforestation could have consequences far beyond the local landscape.
Environment
Nov 16, 2016
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Forest fires hit the headlines all too regularly - in fact, fire affects about 4.64 million km2 of biomass per year, an area almost three times the size of Alaska. But after the fire something remains - stable carbon.
Environment
Oct 7, 2016
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Large animals play a key role in mitigating climate change in tropical forests across the world by spreading the seeds of large trees that have a high capacity to store carbon, new research co-led by the University of Leeds ...
Environment
Apr 25, 2016
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Scientists have found the oldest fossils of the familiar pine tree that dominates Northern Hemisphere forests today.
Earth Sciences
Mar 11, 2016
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Scientists from the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway, University of London together with colleagues from the USA, Russia and China, have discovered that forest fires across the globe were more common between ...
Environment
Oct 26, 2015
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A team from the University of Leeds, UK, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore and Nature Conservation Foundation, Mysore, surveyed bats in the southern Western Ghats, in the first detailed study of the impact ...
Ecology
Aug 19, 2015
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The conversion of forests, grasslands, shrublands and wetlands to cropland over the course of three centuries profoundly changed the surface of the Earth and the carbon cycle of the terrestrial ecosystem in Northeast China.
Environment
Sep 30, 2014
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