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Wildfires, and the costs of fighting them, are projected to increase in the western United States, particularly the Northwest, research suggests. Credit: Kari Greer, USDA Forest Service/Flickr, Public Domain
Mangroves, such as these ones in Cispata Bay, Colombia, effectively produce, trap, and store carbon-rich soil, but the future of this carbon storage is uncertain because of rising sea levels and climate change. Credit: Luisa Fernanda Gómez Vargas
A decision made 70 years ago to plant vast areas of Japan with just two species of trees is now backfired with pollen clouds that are causing allergies in residents, writes the British broadcaster BBC. In February, a video went viral showing huge, smoke-like clouds billowing from Japan’s evergreen forests. It wasn’t smoke, but pollen, […]
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The pace of tropical forest destruction slowed in 2025 after record losses the year before but remained at worrying levels equivalent to 11 football fields per minute, researchers said Wednesday. The world lost 4.3 million hectares (10.6 million acres) of tropical primary rainforest last year — down 36 percent from 2024, said researchers from the […]
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New research suggests that the location of reforestation efforts may matter more than their extent. Credit: redcharlie/Unsplash
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Vast tracts of Indonesian rainforest home to endangered orangutans have been cleared for plantations supplying a maker of “carbon-neutral” packaging, an investigation by AFP and The Gecko Project has found. Pulp and paper firm Asia Symbol has a no-deforestation policy and supplied major companies like Haleon, the British pharmaceutical giant behind household brands Panadol and […]
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The relationship between the land use - land cover change rate and the density of fatal landslides for mountain areas around the world. Figure from Fidan et al. (2026), published under a Creative Commons Licence.
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The Puritan settlers of New England, steeped in the Old Testament biblical worldview, believed it was their God-ordained destiny to transform the dismal American wilderness into an earthly paradise. Seventeenth century Puritan writing is full of the idea of wild country as the environment of evil, and so they cut ... [continued]
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The sky at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie feels enormous, a vista unlike any other.
About an hour southwest of Chicago, on land that once housed the Joliet Army Ammunition Plant, Midewin was the first national tallgrass prairie in the United States. It was established in 1996 after the Army transferred the land to the U.S. Forest Service.
During World War II and the Cold War, this expanse…
When you cross into National Forest land, you are greeted with a sign boasting that you are entering into a "Land of Many Uses." This proclamation hints at a mild contradiction within the U.S. Forest Service's management of the forestland covering over a third of the United States. Since its inception over a century ago, the agency has both overseen conservation efforts and managed resource…
_Tree Water_ debuted in the _WILDLAND_ exhibition in early 2025 at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art in Santa Barbara, Calif. It used four video projectors with layered soundscapes to spatially represent a grove of trees and a creek bed. In the darkened space, footage of pigments flowing in water artistically animated the process of rainwater entering soil, roots, branches, and eventually,…
Wooden fishing boats sit on the shore of Lake Victoria. Credit: Darren Davis/Alamy
A new study reveals that thunderstorms may electrify entire forests. Researchers detected faint corona discharges leaping between leaves, producing ultraviolet flashes across treetops, an invisible light show that could influence atmospheric chemistry and subtly shape the lives of trees.
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Estimates of the carbon flux for the Amazon region depend upon the scale and method by which they are measured. Panel A shows that a satellite-based method and biogeochemical models estimated a net release of carbon for the whole basin in 2023, although the satellite-based estimate was smaller (indicated by the sizes of the upward yellow arrows). Panel B also shows a net release of carbon (upward…
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Permits revoked, lawsuits filed, the threat of state takeovers. Deadly flooding in Indonesia has prompted unprecedented government action against companies accused of environmental destruction that worsened the disaster. But environmentalists who have long warned about the risks of rampant deforestation fear the current response will not solve the problem, and could even make it worse. […]
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ESA's BIOMASS satellite successfully launches, featuring first global P-band SAR instrument capable of penetrating forest canopy to measure tree health and carbon flux.
Report on ESA's first Biodiversity Insights from Space conference featuring presentations on urban tree management and remote sensing biodiversity metrics.
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