The cute, fluffy panda may have had omnivorous ancestors
The astonishing diversity of carnivorans in the Late Miocene helps us understand their ecological roles.
Tag: forest
Is your toilet paper flushing critical forests down the drain?
Many companies in the US are literally turning virgin forests into toilet paper.
There’s 60% less forest on Earth for every human compared to over half a century ago
The drop is owed to rising human populations and shrinking forest surface.
California is losing its trees — perhaps permanently — as climate change is shifting its ecosystems
Trees are burning and grasslands are taking their place.
We can’t “plant our way” out of the climate crisis, researchers argue
Instead of planting a lot of new trees, we should take care of the ones we already have.
The bedrock under forests also affects carbon storage
Geology and biology, caught in a chemical dance.
The urban forest of the future: how to turn our cities into Treetopias
We are and will continue to plant more street trees, urban groves and informal clusters of trees in our parks ...
Researchers develop new tool to help regrow burned-down forests
We all need some help every now and then.
Humanity is making trees grow less and live shorter lives
Its a bad time to be a tree.
Cut down half the forest and the rest quickly follows suit
Deforestation for agriculture is the leading cause of man-made landscape shifts.
Cutting down trees and planting new ones is wrecking the soil
Continuously cutting down forests and planting new ones is deplenting the soils of crucial minerals, new analysis shows.
In 2019, Brazil cut down twice as much of the Amazon as it did in the previous year
All in all, some 563 square kilometers (217 square miles) of forest were cut down in November.
Even a little extra CO2 is triggering big changes in forests
Rising CO2 is altering how forests recycle water.
Trees and water: don’t underestimate the connection
Trees have extraordinary powers, especially when it comes to water. But such powers must be wielded with care.
Forest fires put the Amazon close to its tipping point
In two years, the rainforest could start becoming a savannah
What is happening in the Amazon? Key questions and answers
A cold view on a very hot issue.
Change diets to save the tropical forests, researchers say
If the consumption of meat and dairy doesn’t fall, at least one-quarter of the world’s tropical lands could disappear by ...
Fossil Friday: Oldest fossil forest discovered in Asia
The fossil forest, which is larger than Grand Central Station, is the earliest example of a forest in Asia.
Wildfires lock away a ‘considerable amount of carbon’ for centuries, or even millennia
I'll admit it -- I did not expect this.
Vikings cut down all of Iceland’s forests — the country is planting them anew
Since 2015, Iceland has planted around 1,000 hectares of forest (between three and four million trees).
The Earth has room for a trillion more trees — which might be our best bet against climate change
A new study shows that there's still plenty of room for almost a billion hectares of forest.
The birth of forests helped drive two massive, ancient extinctions
They did not come in peace.
Old forests are better at dealing with climate change, study finds
Old age doesn't mean 'frail'.
World’s biggest terrestrial carbon sinks are young forests
Equatorial rainforests are actually net emitters of carbon. Young forests in temperate regions are the best carbon sinks on land, ...
World’s largest organism is being eaten away by wild animals
A clonal colony of Aspen stretching over 100 acres is being threatened -- and it's all on us again.
Curbing climate change: carbon storage is good, forests are oft-times better
If it ain't broken, don't replace it with a powerplant.
Grasslands could overtake forests as the most reliable carbon sink ecosystems
But this doesn't mean we should stop focusing on forests -- on the contrary.
Reforestation efforts bring back hundreds of species to China
Plant a tree and species will come back to thee.
The US lost roughly 1 in every 100 urban trees between 2009 and 2014
Which is a pity, because they save us a lot of money.
Old-growth forests offer safe haven to bird species struggling with climate change
They're really nice cool places for raising baby birds -- or fo rest!
Higher temperature and more CO2 is good for trees, but overall climate change will damage forests
It could start a self-reinforcing loop.
Juice company dumped orange peels in Costa Rican national park in the 90s — it revived the forest
Orange is the new forest.
Video: watch how a beautiful forest changes during a year
Filmmaker Samuel Orr took 40,000 still images from his front window in a forest cabin to show how nature changes ...
Study found human habitation promoted forest growth in British Columbia over the past 13,000 years
These trees shellfishly used the First Nations' trash to grow.
Trees trade carbon through their roots, using symbiotic fungi networks
A forest's trees capture carbon not only for themselves, but also engage in an active "trade" of sorts with their ...
The 380-million-years old ancient forest discovered near the Arctic Pole
Some 400 million years ago, during what's called the late Devonian period, the planet went through a dramatic shift in ...
Amazing ‘Treescraper’ Designs from Around the World
Showcased are some of the most amazing designs that mimic nature closely: man-made, but defined by their allegiance to nature.
Devastating photos of the world’s deforestation
Recently, we wrote an article about the biggest tree census ever conducted, and the results were pretty grim. Sure, there ...
The Heaviest Living Organism in the World
What is the heaviest living creature in the world? It's not an elephant or a blue whale, the heaviest organism ...
10,000 year old underwater forest discovered
Divers off the coast of Norfolk have discovered a submerged prehistoric forest, hidden underwater for 10,000 years. The forest was ...
Forests become more efficient in response to rising CO2 levels
For years scientists have hypothesized that a rise in CO2 levels will cause the world's forests to use water more ...
Earliest forest from the dawn of woody plants revealed
Last week we reported about a 300 million year old fossilized forest which was discovered underneath a coal mine in ...
300 million year old fossilized forest discovered under coal mine in China
There's some good coming off China's extensive coal exploitation (the nation holds the top place for most pollutant emissions resulting ...
Milan’s Vertical Forest Towers
Bosco Verticale is an ambitious eco project in Milan, designed by architect Stefano Boeri, which tries to blend two discrepant ...
The cost of a green forest economy: $40 billion
Acording to a report released by the UN on Sunday, a transition to a low carbon, green and ressource efficient ...
Ethiopia’s forest area triples
Ethiopian authorities announced that thanks to large-scale reforestation campaigns the forest cover of their country has tripled since 2000. The ...
Money in the Earth’s Bank: Preservation of Canada’s Boreal Forest
Whether we want to accept it or not, mankind has caused significant (to say the leased) damage to the amount ...
Mexican mangroves ‘vital for fishing industry’
A few days ago, I wrote about the damage that a well intended, but wrongly conducted mangrove restoration could cause; ...
