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It’s vital we find cost-effective ways to get and keep more trees in the ground. Our research looked at where natural regeneration is likely to be successful due to environmental conditions.
The leaves of evergreen species acquire carbon over the long term and improve nutrient conservation, whereas short-lived leaves favour rapid carbon acquisition.
There’s a widespread argument that ‘poachers’ are responsible for the scarcity of wild ginseng. But a scholar who has interviewed diggers explains that most of them are good stewards.
As summer temperatures rise, finding ways to build cities that don’t hold in the heat and can provide some cooling is increasingly important.
For trees, growing to maturity involves much more than just reaching upward.
But this is no long-term solution for storing carbon.
Shifting from native forest logging to sustainable plantations will help protect these essential forests and the many threatened species that depend on them.
An unplanned experiment when wildfire smoke rolled through Colorado shows how trees keep some of the smoke out.
Containing and extinguishing mega blazes like the one that reached Jasper is an all-hands-on-deck affair that draws upon expertise from around the world.
The record-breaking and destructive forest fires of the summer of 2023 made headlines. But how did they affect the millions of lakes in the burned catchment areas?
The emerald ash borer is a destructive invasive pest which has killed tens of millions of trees across North America and has now been sighted in Vancouver.
The carbon stored by forests can be bought by polluting companies to offset their emissions. This can displace communities who depend on natural forests for their livelihoods.
Ghana is losing forests because of cocoa farming, firewood harvesting, mining and logging.
Most of us just take it for granted. But bark is one of the most complex parts of a tree and has many different jobs to do.
All the evidence – colonial accounts and records, First Peoples’ testimony and scientific data – points to the existence of widespread tall, dense forests 250 years ago.
Planting millions of trees in natural grassland is largely ineffective in the battle against global warming because it adds little or no additional carbon storage.
Wild turkeys were overhunted across the US through the early 1900s, but made a strong comeback. Now, though, numbers are declining again. Two ecologists parse the evidence and offer an explanation.
Kelp forests around the world, and in Canada, are under threat. New research sheds further light on the health, and resilience, of these crucial ecosystems.
Knowing which parts of Africa best help to store carbon means funding and policy efforts can be directed to protecting and increasing this carbon ‘land sink’.
Top contributors
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Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor, University of Tasmania
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Research Associate, University of New South Wales, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Curtin University
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Professor Emeritus of International Environmental Policy, Tufts University
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Agente de transfert de connaissances pour le Centre de recherche sur la boréalie (CREB), Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
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Professor in Conservation Science, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
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Master of University House and Professor of Forestry, Australian National University
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Honorary Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor Emeritus of Global Change Biology and Terrestrial Systems Science, Oregon State University
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Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Environment; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Molecular and Life Sciences and ARC Centre for Mine Site Restoration., Curtin University
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Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
