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Forest fires Spread in Northern Spain
Firefighters battle more than 120 forest fires in northern Spain, some of which may have been started deliberately, officials say.
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New genetically engineered American chestnut will help restore the decimated, iconic tree
Adding a single wheat gene helps the American chestnut withstand a fungal pathogen that nearly wiped these hardwood trees out of the eastern forests they once dominated.
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The Tree Farm
‘I was going north to find a tree farm, in a land where there are no trees.’ Cal Flyn on Scottish forestry.
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Disappearing world: Paraguay’s Ayoreo people fight devastating land sales
An Ayoreo group in the Chaco whose ancestral land was sold to international ranchers in 2012 is battling for its return – and to hang on to their way of life. By Toby Stirling Hill. (Jan. 25)
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How We Nearly Lost the South's Largest Old-Growth Floodplain Forest
The establishment of Congaree National Park in South Carolina represents one of the most important conservation victories in the eastern U.S.
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Polish scientists protest over plan to log in Białowieża Forest
Researchers suspect motives for a planned increase in felling are commercial, but forest administration cites pest control. By Quirin Schiermeier.
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Synchronized leaf aging in the Amazon responsible for seasonal increases in photosynthesis
One hundred and fifty feet above the ground in the Amazonian rainforest, a vast ocean of green spreads out in every direction...
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The African palm oil frontier expands deeper into the Peruvian Amazon, impacting indigenous communities’ territories
Peru may be playing a more visible role in climate negotiations, especially related to conservation of its tropical forests. But despite this, deforestation has been increasing over the past 15 years, much of it due to expanded cultivation of cash crops like African palm oil.
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No Mushroom Cloud
A fungus offers a complicated lesson in late-capitalist logistics and survival. By Miranda Trimmier.
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This disease has killed a million trees in California, and scientists say it’s basically unstoppable
Healthy forests are especially important at a time of climate change — they’re an incredible tool to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Dead forests, on the other hand, can light the spark for wildfires, which are already showing a long-predicted uptick in activity. In California’s coastal forests, health is anything but good. Since 1995, a fungal pathogen...
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A Secret Forest Grew for Millennia in North America Without Anyone Noticing
Doug Larson was not looking for old trees. The ecologist started working on the cliffs of the Niagara Escarpment because, like the tundra where he had studied mosses and lichens, they were relatively untouched by humans. It didn't hurt, either, that his new research spot was close to his home in Guelph, Canada, a university town just over an hour west of Toronto.
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It's Time to Adapt to Megafires
Earlier this month, a devastating wildfire swept through the Canadian city of Fort McMurray, prompting more than 88,000 residents to evacuate. As the out-of-control blaze continues to swell in size, a bigger picture is starting to emerge: major fires like this are the future, and we’d better get used to it.
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A Forest Built By Hand
Thanks to a visionary botanist, a man-made forest sits in the middle of the Nebraska prairie.
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Canada's tundra is turning green — and its Boreal forest brown — NASA study finds
Using NASA's Landsat satellites, researchers conducted the most precise study yet on vegetation growth trends across North America.
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Huge cacao plantation in Peru illegally developed on forest-zoned land
A zoning evaluation released by the Peruvian government finds the land on which United Cacao’s plantation is sited could not have been legally developed for agriculture.
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North American forests unlikely to save us from climate change, study finds
30 percent of human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide—a strong greenhouse gas—and are therefore considered to play a crucial role in mitigating the speed and magnitude of climate change. However, a new study that combines future climate model projections, historic tree-ring records across the entire continent of North America, and how the growth rates of trees may respond to a higher concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has shown that the mitigation effect of forests will likely be much smaller in the future than previously suggested.
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Rising avocado prices fuelling illegal deforestation in Mexico
The popularity of the avocado in the US and rising prices for the “superfood” are fuelling deforestation in central Mexico. Mexican farmers can make much higher profits growing avocados than from most other crops and so are thinning out pine forests to plant young avocado trees. Such is the size of the market that it has become a lucrative business for Mexico’s drug gangs, with extortion money paid to criminal organisations such as Los Caballeros Templarios (The Knights Templar) in Michoacán – the state that produces most of Mexico’s avocados – estimated at 2bn pesos ($109m) a year.
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People enhanced the environment, not degraded it, over past 13,000 years
Human occupation is usually associated with deteriorated landscapes, but new research shows that 13,000 years of repeated occupation by British Columbia’s coastal First Nations has had the opposite effect, enhancing temperate rainforest productivity. Andrew Trant, a professor in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo, led the study in partnership with the University of Victoria and the Hakai Institute. The research combined remote-sensed, ecological and archaeological data from coastal sites where First Nations’ have lived for millennia.
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The High Sierra forest is dying, and you can't count the loss in dead trees
Some years ago — almost 20, actually — my wife and I made it a habit to leave the city in August and head for the High Sierra. Our destination has always been a lake edged by cabins , 60 miles east of Fresno, just south of Yosemite and just north of Sequoia.
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Superheroes Are Real
They jump out of planes. They fly onto the field of battle. They run, chainsaws in hand, into 20-foot flames against the ultimate opponent: Mother Nature. By Rachel Monroe. [Autoplay]
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