Conservation meet mulls plan to protect 80% of Amazon
Should 80 percent of the Amazon be declared a protected area by 2025?
Environment
Sep 05, 2021
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News tagged with native forests
Since greater gliders were listed as 'vulnerable,' humans have destroyed more of their habitat
In just five years, greater gliders—fluffy-eared, tree-dwelling marsupials—could go from vulnerable to endangered, because Australia's environmental laws have failed to protect them and other threatened native species.
Plants & Animals
Aug 26, 2021
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Climate change is already disrupting US forests and coasts, evidence at 5 long-term research sites shows
Record-breaking heat waves and drought have left West Coast rivers lethally hot for salmon, literally cooked millions of mussels and clams in their shells and left forests primed to burn. The extraordinary severity of 2021's ...
Environment
Aug 04, 2021
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Ecologists compare accuracy of lidar technologies for monitoring forest vegetation
As light detection and ranging (lidar) technology evolves, forest ecology and ecological restoration researchers have been using these tools in a wide range of applications.
Ecology
Jul 09, 2021
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Lifting the clouds on land clearing and biodiversity loss
QUT researchers have developed a new machine learning mathematical system that helps to identify and detect changes in biodiversity, including land clearing, when satellite imagery is obstructed by clouds.
Environment
Jun 30, 2021
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Underwater ancient cypress forest offers clues to the past
When saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths and giant sloths roamed North America during the last Ice Age about 18,000 to 80,000 years ago, the Gulf Coast's climate was only slightly cooler, more similar to regions to the ...
Environment
Jun 03, 2021
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Greening the planet: We can't just plant trees, we have to restore forests
The Queen's Green Canopy, a campaign to celebrate Elizabeth II's platinum jubilee next year, involves asking people in the UK to plant trees: a "treebilee" as her son, Prince Charles puts it. This is one of a number of public ...
Plants & Animals
May 20, 2021
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Native forest logging makes bushfires worse – and to say otherwise ignores the facts
The Black Summer bushfires burned far more temperate forest than any other fire season recorded in Australia. The disaster was clearly a climate change event; however, other human activities also had consequences.
Environment
May 20, 2021
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Riparian forests in the savannah: Fires also threaten Brazil's second largest ecosystem
In recent years, wildfires have become increasingly frequent in the Brazilian savannahs, also severely affecting the riparian forests. Investigations carried out with a scientist from the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 14, 2020
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Forest darkness helps stave off effects of nitrogen pollution – but this is set to change
Europe's forests are sitting on a pollution timebomb which could rewrite their ecology when it explodes, say researchers.
Environment
Oct 01, 2020
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