Tag: Forests
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...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
