Tropical forests are clearly critical to Earth's climate system, but understanding exactly how much carbon they absorb from the atmosphere, store and release is tricky to calculate, not least because measuring and reporting ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 7, 2023
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Logging typically degrades tropical forests. But what if logging is carefully planned and carried out by well-trained workers?
Plants & Animals
Dec 1, 2023
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A new study published Nov. 23 in Nature Climate Change reveals that forests formally managed by Indigenous and local communities have improved outcomes for carbon, biodiversity and livelihoods, simultaneously addressing three ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 24, 2023
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People living on the in low-lying coastal areas will be at even greater risk from cyclones in the future. Natural ecosystems offer protection, but this protection has decreased in recent years and is expected to continue ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 15, 2023
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Severe wildfires are putting global timber production at risk, new research from The Australian National University (ANU), the University of Sheffield and the University of Cambridge shows.
Earth Sciences
Nov 14, 2023
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A large study involving 43 research plots in the Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO) Network—including a swath of trees at Tyson Research Center, the environmental field station of Washington University in St. Louis—has ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 10, 2023
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Every summer for almost the last 20 years, volunteers from the Kent Wildlife Trust and Buglife, both in the UK, have been tracking car number plates. But not in the the way you might think. Their inspections aim to register ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 9, 2023
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Historically, trade liberalization has been bad news for the world's tropical forests. As wealthy nations' appetite for imported agricultural goods like beef and soy has exploded, deforestation in countries such as Brazil ...
Environment
Nov 7, 2023
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The decline of insect populations has attracted worldwide interest in times of global warming and changing environment, but we have only rudimentary knowledge about the biodiversity and abundance of insects in the high mountains ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 3, 2023
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Deforestation in the Amazon causes land surfaces up to 100 kilometers away to get warmer, according to a new study. The research, by a team of British and Brazilian scientists, led by Dr. Edward Butt at the University of ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 30, 2023
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