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‘We Need to Hear These Poor Trees Scream’: Unchecked Global Warming Means Big Trouble for Forests
Tim Brodribb has been measuring all the different ways global warming kills trees for the past 20 years. With a microphone, he says, you can hear them take their last labored breaths. During blistering heat waves and droughts, air bubbles invade their delicate, watery veins, cracking them open with an audible pop. And special cameras can film the moment their drying leaves split open in a lightning bolt pattern, disrupting photosynthesis.
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When will the Amazon hit a tipping point?
Seen from a monitoring tower above the treetops near Manaus in the Brazilian Amazon, the rainforest canopy stretches to the horizon as an endless sea of green. It looks like a rich and healthy ecosystem, but appearances are deceiving. This rainforest — which holds 16,000 separate tree species — is slowly drying out.
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Good News! Total Forest Cover In India Increases By 5,188 Sq Km, Says 2019 Forest Report
While releasing the report, Javadekar said that there is an increase of 42.6 million tonnes in the carbon stock of the country as compared to the last assessment of 2017.
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We Might Not Be Planting the Right Kinds of Forests
As the world scrambles to combat deforestation, experts warn our efforts could have far fewer benefits than we think.
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Brazil’s deforestation is exploding—and 2020 will be worse
The Brazilian government acknowledges the spike but says it’s the continuation of a 7-year trend
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Brazil’s Amazon rainforest destruction is at its highest rate in more than a decade
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has surged to its highest rate in more than a decade, according to new data from Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE). It’s an alarming development in one of the most critical ecosystems for the planet, and it highlights how policy decisions by President Jair Bolsonaro’s government are driving the destruction.
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The fight to stop Nestlé from taking America's water to sell in plastic bottles
The network of clear streams comprising California’s Strawberry Creek run down the side of a steep, rocky mountain in a national forest two hours east of Los Angeles. Last year Nestlé siphoned 45m gallons of pristine spring water from the creek and bottled it under the Arrowhead Water label.
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Romania forest murder as battle over logging turns violent
Liviu Pop died last week, the second forest ranger killed in the past month.
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Hawaii’s Push To Plant Millions Of Trees
Camilo Mora spends his evenings and weekends tinkering with PVC pipes, duct tape and zip ties, working like a modern-day MacGyver to create odd-looking inventions for his greenhouse.
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'A problem in every national forest': tree thieves were behind Washington wildfire
Tree theft, which led to the deadly Maple fire in Washington, may be costing the US Forest Service up to $100m each year
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'Once they're gone, they're gone': the fight to save the giant sequoia
Few living beings have experienced as much as the giant sequoias. With ancestors dating back to the Jurassic era, some of the trees that now grow along California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains been alive for thousands of years, bearing witness to most of human history – from the fall of the Roman empire to the rise of Beyoncé.
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Restoring forests 1 tree at a time, to help repair climate
Destruction of the forests can be swift. Regrowth is much, much slower.
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Ethiopia may have broken a world record by planting more than 350 million trees in 12 hours
More than 350 million trees were planted in Ethiopia in just 12 hours in a bid against deforestation from the country's prime minister. The number planted is believed to be a world record and surpassed an initial goal of 200 million to be planted in a day.
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Seven nations agree Amazon protection pact
Seven South American countries have agreed measures to protect the Amazon river basin, amid global concern over massive fires in the world's largest tropical forest. Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru and Suriname signed a pact, setting up a disaster response network and satellite monitoring. At a summit in Colombia, they also agreed to work on reforestation.
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The World’s Forests Will Collapse If We Don’t Learn To Say ‘No’
An alarming study has shown that the world’s forests are not only disappearing rapidly but that areas of “core forest” — remote interior areas critical for disturbance-sensitive wildlife and ecological processes — are vanishing even faster. Core forests are disappearing because a tsunami of new roads, dams, power lines, pipelines and other infrastructure is rapidly slicing into the world’s last wild places, opening them up like a flayed fish to deforestation, fragmentation, poaching and other destructive activities.
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A Trailblazing Plan to Fight California Wildfires
Throughout the twentieth century, federal policy focussed on putting out fires as quickly as possible, but preventing megafires requires a different approach.
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Scientists say sustainable forestry organizations should lift ban on biotech trees
Look at anything made from trees—a ream of paper, a cardboard box, lumber—and it's probably stamped with the logo of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) or an equivalent organization. These nonprofits certify that forests are managed sustainably, and one common requirement is no genetically modified (GM) trees. But that ban hinders research and should change, researchers say in today's issue of Science. The technology, they argue, has important potential to remedy many pressing problems facing forests.
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Feeling Sad About the Amazon Fires? Stop Eating Meat
The struggle with “Climate Despair” is real. That is anxiety and depression caused by news of environmental degradation. Right now, for example, many have shared feelings of helplessness amid the ongoing forest fires in the Amazon. This disaster has been going on for weeks, and the fires have gotten so bad that the state of Amazonas declared a state of emergency earlier this month.
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The Amazon is burning and smoke from the fires can be seen from space
Smoke from record wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest blanketed São Paulo on Monday and could be seen from space.
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Mega-Trees Are the New Weapon Against Climate Change
Scientists caution that we probably can’t “plant our way out” of the climate crisis, but growing big trees and keeping them around is an important piece of the puzzle.
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