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Even a small rise in temperatures could decimate North American forests
A new study warns that boreal forests are fast approaching a tipping point.
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New study finds global forest area per capita has decreased by over 60%
Over the past 60 years, the global forest area has declined by 81.7 million hectares, a loss that contributed to the more than 60% decline in global forest area per capita. This loss threatens the future of biodiversity and impacts the lives of 1.6 billion people worldwide, according to a new study published today by IOP Publishing in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
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U.S. Will Plant One Billion Trees to Combat Climate Change
To help revitalize millions of acres of burned and damaged forests across the American West, the U.S. Department of Agriculture aims to plant more than one billion trees over the next decade. Wildfires and other issues have devastated U.S. woodlands in recent years, and Forest Service arborists can’t keep up with replanting lost trees. They’ve reforested just six percent of land damaged by fires, pests and extreme weather events, which has created a backlog of about 4.1 million acres.
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US to plant 1 billion trees as climate change kills forests
The Biden administration on Monday said the government will plant more than one billion trees across millions of acres of burned and dead woodlands in the U.S. West
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The U.S. Forest Service is taking emergency action to save sequoias from wildfires
The U.S. Forest Service announced Friday it's taking emergency action to save giant sequoias by speeding up projects that could start within weeks to clear underbrush to protect the world's largest trees from the increasing threat of wildfires.
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Friendly fungi help forests fight climate change
A forest is home to billions of living things, some of them too small to be seen by the naked eye. Collectively, these micro-scale species contribute more to our planet than most of us could imagine. While we know that forests play a major role in countering global warming - acting as reservoirs for carbon - what is less well understood is how tiny organisms that dwell hidden in the soil help lock away our greenhouse gas emissions.
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There’s no healthy economy (or planet) without healthy forests
Forests are among the world’s best bets for carbon capture. But according to this year’s State of the World’s Forests report from the United Nations, forests are also the foundation of green and equitable economies, sustainable resource management, and biodiversity preservation and are generally key to a brighter future.
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Biden will order a study of old-growth forests in an Earth Day executive action
President Biden will sign an executive order to inventory and protect old-growth forests while visiting Seattle later Friday. The order requires the Department of the Interior and Department of Agriculture to come up with a shared definition of mature and old-growth forests and gives them a year to take stock of their numbers in the U.S. After collecting that data, the agencies must come up with new policies to manage and conserve these wooded areas, with an eye towards threats like wildfires.
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Global count estimates Earth has 73,000 tree species – 14% more than reported
There are an estimated 73,300 species of tree on Earth, 9,000 of which have yet to be discovered, according to a global count of tree species by thousands of researchers who used second world war codebreaking techniques created at Bletchley Park to evaluate the number of unknown species.
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These seed-firing drones can plant 40,000 trees every day
Let’s face it. Talk about biodiversity loss at a party and you’re unlikely to make friends. Talk about an army of seed-firing drones, however, and suddenly you’re the coolest person there. Well believe it or not, an Australian start-up is doing exactly that. Using a fleet of highly advanced octocopters, AirSeed Technology is fighting deforestation by combining artificial intelligence with specially designed seed pods which can be fired into the ground from high in the sky.
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Old, Primeval Forests May Be a Powerful Tool to Fight Climate Change
Ecologists thought these trees had long been torn down in New England. Then Bob Leverett proved them wrong. I meet Bob Leverett in a small gravel parking lot at the end of a quiet residential road in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. We are at the Ice Glen trailhead, half a mile from a Mobil station, and Leverett, along with his wife, Monica Jakuc Leverett, is going to show me one of New England’s rare pockets of old-growth forest.
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US wildfires have killed nearly 20% of world’s giant sequoias in two years
Lightning-sparked wildfires killed thousands of giant sequoias this year, adding to a staggering two-year death toll that accounts for up to nearly a fifth of Earth’s largest trees, officials said on Friday.
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Grass is good. Lawns are terrible.
Sometime in our recent past, we became obsessed with planting trees. First, the goal was 1 billion new trees worldwide. Now it’s 1 trillion by the year 2030. Trees offer all kinds of benefits, from absorbing climate-warming emissions to providing refuge for animals, and we’re losing them at a blistering pace. But in our push to restock the world’s forests, we’ve largely ignored — and in some cases harmed — another important ecosystem that offers a similar set of benefits: grasslands.
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Tree by Tree, Scientists Try to Resurrect a Fire-Scarred Forest
When Phillip Tafoya was a young boy in the 1960s, the mountains astride Santa Clara Canyon in northern New Mexico were cloaked in deep green ponderosa pines and Douglas firs. The people of Santa Clara Pueblo, Tafoya’s home, have relied on this forest for cultural uses, food, firewood and recreation for centuries. Today it is mostly gone. Ten years ago the Las Conchas fire—one of the largest in state history—scorched 156,000 acres in the pueblo and surrounding federal lands.
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‘The fire moved around it’: success story in Oregon fuels calls for prescribed burns
The Bootleg fire stampeded through southern Oregon so fiercely that it spit up thunderclouds. But when the flames approached the Sycan Marsh Preserve, a 30,000-acre wetland thick with ponderosa pines, something incredible happened. The flames weakened and the fire slowed down, allowing firefighters to move in and steer the blaze away from a critical research station.
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Evidence Indigenous burning works is growing. Could Australia offer a model for B.C.?
A UBC researcher looking into traditional Indigenous burning practices has found setting fire to the land in the right way and at the right time can ramp up biodiversity. Could Australia offer a lesson on how to fight fire with fire?
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Climate change: Planting extra trees will boost rainfall across Europe
Planting extra trees to combat climate change across Europe could also increase rainfall, research suggests. A new study found that converting agricultural land to forest would boost summer rains by 7.6% on average. The researchers also found that adding trees changed rainfall patterns far downwind of the new forests.
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Amazon eagle faces starvation in 'last stronghold'
One of the world's largest eagles has "nearly zero" chance of surviving deforestation, study shows.
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A billion new trees might not turn Ukraine green
The country's ambitious target to improve the environment could actually harm biodiversity.
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Lumber prices fall for 8th straight day to near $1,000 per thousand board feet
Lumber prices fell for the eighth straight day on Friday to near $1,000 per thousand board feet for the first time since March in a reprieve for ailing homebuilders and renovators. Lumber futures fell 5.61% to trade at $1,059.20 per thousand board feet on Friday. Rising lumber prices in 2021 have hit homebuilders, buyers, and renovators hard, pushing up the cost of an average single-family home by some $36,000, according to the National Association of Homebuilders.
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