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Fire May Be Key to Reviving Dogwood Trees in Eastern Forests
June 8, 2010 — Proper and timely burning of some Eastern US forests could help revitalize flowering dogwood trees, which benefits a wide range of species, a new report ... > full story -
Invasive Tallowtree Spreading Rapidly Across Gulf Coast
June 8, 2010 — The numbers of nonnative Chinese tallowtree in Louisiana, Mississippi and east Texas have grown by about 370 percent over a 16-year period. The spread of the invasive plant may create problems for ... > full story -
Biodiversity Hot Spots More Vulnerable to Global Warming Than Thought
June 7, 2010 — Global warming may present a threat to animal and plant life even in biodiversity hot spots once thought less likely to suffer from climate change, according to a new ... > full story -
Climate Change Linked to Major Vegetation Shifts Worldwide
June 7, 2010 — Vegetation around the world is on the move, and climate change is the culprit, according to a new analysis of global vegetation ... > full story -
Fires in Amazon Challenge Emission Reduction Program
June 3, 2010 — Fire occurrence rates in the Amazon have increased in 59 percent of areas with reduced deforestation and risks canceling part of the carbon savings achieved by UN measures to reduce greenhouse gas ... > full story -
Who Are We Sharing the Planet With? Millions Less Species Than Previously Thought, New Calculations Suggest
June 2, 2010 — New calculations reveal that the number of species on Earth is likely to be in the order of several million rather than tens of millions. The findings, from an Australian-led study, are based on a ... > full story -
New Gecko Species Identified in West African Rain Forests
June 1, 2010 — Using a new statistical method to compare the genes of 50 specimens of the West African forest gecko, researchers have determined that the widely distributed species is actually four distinct species ... > full story -
Lasers Help Researchers Predict Birds' Preferred Habitat
June 1, 2010 — A team of NASA-funded researchers has completed an experiment to remotely sense and predict where certain birds are most likely to live and ... > full story -
Reforestation May Lower the Climate Change Mitigation Potential of Forests
May 28, 2010 — Scientists in the U.S. and China have found that reforestation and afforestation -- the creation of new forests -- may lower the potential of forests for climate change ... > full story -
Rosewood Trees Face Extinction Amid Madagascar's Chaos
May 27, 2010 — Political and social chaos and a lack of international protections have put several species of rosewood trees in Madagascar in danger of becoming extinct from illegal logging, according to new ... > full story
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