Tag: Forests
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...
Human activities in Asia have reduced elephant habitat by nearly two-thirds...
Shermin de Silva, University of California, San Diego
Despite their iconic status and long association with humans, Asian elephants...
Is the Western drought finally ending? That depends on where you look
Dan McEvoy, Desert Research Institute
After three years of extreme drought, the Western U.S. is finally getting a break....
Climate change threatens spring wildflowers by speeding up the time when...
Richard B. Primack, Boston University; Benjamin R. Lee, University of Pittsburgh, and Tara K. Miller, Boston University
For short-lived...
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...
Satellites detect no real climate benefit from 10 years of forest...
Shane Coffield, NASA and James Randerson, University of California, Irvine
Many of the companies promising “net-zero” emissions to protect...
Wildfires reshape forests and change the behavior of animals that live there
Taylor Ganz, University of Washington
In the arid American West, wildfires now define summer. Recent years have seen some...
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The strange story of turkey tails speaks volumes about our globalized...
Michael Carolan, Colorado State University
Intensive livestock farming is a huge global industry that serves up millions of tons of beef, pork and poultry every...
