Tag: Forests
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...
A case for retreat in the age of fire
Emily E. Schlickman, University of California, Davis; Brett Milligan, University of California, Davis, and Stephen M. Wheeler, University of California, Davis
Alaska on fire: Thousands of lightning strikes and a warming climate...
Rick Thoman, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Alaska is on pace for another historic wildfire year, with its fastest start...
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....
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
