A new report by researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and Canada's McGill University identifies gaps in forest monitoring and ways to improve data collection. This will produce reliable estimates ...
Environment
Oct 4, 2011
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The fog comes in, and a drop of water forms on a pine needle, rolls down the needle, and falls to the forest floor. The process is repeated over and over, on each pine needle of every tree in a forest of Bishop pines on Santa ...
Environment
Nov 28, 2012
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Forests hold a vast amount of Earth's terrestrial carbon and play an important role in offsetting anthropogenic emissions of fossil fuels. Since 2015, the world's tropical forests can be observed regularly at an unprecedented ...
Planetary Sciences
Mar 7, 2023
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Soaring over a dense canopy of trees, a flying, insect-like robot developed by Wake Forest researchers will give an unprecedented look at Peru's tropical cloud forest, one of the world's most biodiverse ecosystems.
Environment
Nov 20, 2013
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The cloud forests of the Andes Mountains are not migrating fast enough in the face of global warming, according to FIU researchers.
Environment
Sep 1, 2014
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Deep in the tropical Andes are hiding plants that were discovered and then forgotten; plants that we knew almost nothing about. Now, thanks to the combined efforts of botanists from Germany, Ecuador, Peru and Costa Rica and ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 25, 2023
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Tropical ecosystems are constantly navigating between prolonged drought and extreme rainfall, but little research has been done to understand why some plants are able to survive these swings in climate.
Plants & Animals
Oct 2, 2023
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An international team of researchers, including a scientist at The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), has documented and described seven rare new plant species with brightly colored flowers that are only found in highly threatened ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 7, 2024
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(AP) -- An Ethiopian lark, a Galapagos finch and a spectacularly colored hummingbird only recently discovered in Colombia have been added to the list of the world's most threatened species, an environmental group said Thursday. ...
Ecology
May 14, 2009
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Researchers have found evidence that near-ground biogenic emissions of organics suppress cloud formation in cool-temperate forests in autumn, providing clues to how global warming will affect cloud formation and the overall ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 6, 2017
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