Tag: carbon storage
Arbor Day: Why planting trees isn’t enough
Karen D. Holl, University of California, Santa Cruz and Pedro Brancalion, Universidade de São Paulo
For 151 years, Americans...
Russia’s aggression threatens efforts to protect nature beyond Ukraine
Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao, University of Washington; Duan Biggs, Northern Arizona University; Nives Dolsak, University of Washington, and Paul G. Harris, The Education University...
Biden restores roadless protection to the Tongass, North America’s largest rainforest
Beverly Law, Oregon State University
Ask people to find the world’s rainforests on a globe, and most will probably...
Ending Amazon deforestation: 4 essential reads about the future of the...
Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation
Brazil’s president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was greeted with applause and cheers when he...
How forests lost 8,000 years of stored carbon in a few...
Jason McLachlan, University of Notre Dame
“Plant a tree” seems to be the go-to answer to climate change concerns...
Trees aren’t a climate change cure-all – 2 new studies on...
William R.L. Anderegg, University of Utah
When people talk about ways to slow climate change, they often mention trees,...
Redwood trees have two types of leaves, scientists find – a...
Alana Chin, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Coast redwoods are amazing trees that scientists have studied for generations....
Arctic greening won’t save the climate – here’s why
Donatella Zona, San Diego State University
Satellite images show the Arctic has been getting greener as temperatures in the...