Tag: Trees
The West’s iconic forests are increasingly struggling to recover from wildfires...
Kimberley Davis, United States Forest Service; Jamie Peeler, University of Montana, and Philip Higuera, University of Montana
Wildfires and...
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...
Christmas trees can stay fresh for weeks – a well-timed cut...
Curtis VanderSchaaf, Mississippi State University
Every year somewhere between 25 million and 30 million Christmas trees are sold in...
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...
Termites love global warming – the pace of their wood munching...
Alexander Cheesman, James Cook University; Amy Zanne, University of Miami, and Lucas Cernusak, James Cook University
When we consider...
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...
Light pollution is disrupting the seasonal rhythms of plants and trees,...
Yuyu Zhou, Iowa State University
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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,...
EXPLORING NATURE
Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which...
Mark Axelrod, Michigan State University
To help people who are affected by pollution and other environmental harms, it’s common...
