As a result of the climate crisis, future forests may become unrecognizable. Trees that currently make up European woods may no longer be seen—or they may have moved several hundred meters uphill. Scientists writing in ...
Environment
Sep 8, 2023
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A whole-system functional analysis of tree species is required to achieve climate-adaptive forests and a climate-adaptive building industry, according to a study published in PNAS Nexus.
Plants & Animals
Aug 30, 2023
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It's springtime on campus, which means that flowers and plants of all kinds are bursting to life, growing and blooming.
Plants & Animals
May 31, 2023
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Transparent wood promises to be an environmentally friendly substitute for glass or plastic used for making car windshields, see-through packaging and biomedical devices, according to a study.
Biochemistry
Oct 18, 2022
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New research, led jointly by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of North Texas, advances our understanding of how the wood in our homes and offices can release formaldehyde, a potent carcinogen, at ...
Biochemistry
Sep 27, 2022
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Housing a growing population in homes made out of wood instead of conventional steel and concrete could avoid more than 100 billion tons of emissions of the greenhouse gas CO2 until 2100, a new study by the Potsdam Institute ...
Environment
Aug 30, 2022
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Wooden objects are usually made by sawing, carving, bending or pressing. That's so old school! Today, scientists will describe how flat wooden shapes extruded by a 3D printer can be programmed to self-morph into complex 3D ...
Materials Science
Aug 23, 2022
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Wood is infinitely useful. Critically important for our changing climate, trees store carbon. When trees are harvested for wood products like lumber, some of that carbon continues to be stored. Even after a wood product is ...
Environment
Aug 11, 2022
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Efforts to conserve the carbon stored in tropical forests would be enhanced by linking the work to the charismatic, threatened primates that live there, Oregon State University ecologists assert today in a paper published ...
Environment
Jul 7, 2022
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The concept of ecosystem services allows researchers to quantify the benefits that nature contributes to people into monetary units. A study publishing April 5th in the open-access journal PLOS Sustainability and Transformation ...
Ecology
Apr 5, 2022
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