Rainforests News
May 21, 2024
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May 2, 2024 Climate change and human activities like deforestation are causing more fires in central and west Africa's wet, tropical forests, according to the first-ever comprehensive survey there. The fires have long been ...
May 2, 2024 The global demand for palm oil -- the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet, in everything from instant noodles to lipstick -- is driving worldwide tropical deforestation. While many studies have shown the loss of biodiversity when ...
May 2, 2024 Artificial intelligence analysis of data gathered by acoustic recording devices is a promising new tool for monitoring the marbled murrelet and other secretive, hard-to-study ...
Apr. 24, 2024 Many American companies are relying on carbon offsets to reduce their carbon footprint, especially those who have pledged to achieve 'net-zero emissions.' Sequestering carbon in forests is an example of a nature-based solution that is being used to ...
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Apr. 29, 2024 Europe's forests have already been severely affected by climate change. Thousands of hectares of trees have already died due to drought and bark beetles. Scientists have now investigated which trees ...
Apr. 25, 2024 In the boreal forest of Western Canada, researchers have considered that both changing climate and increased habitat alteration have enabled deer to push farther ...
Apr. 23, 2024 A study of shallow-water fish communities on rocky reefs in south-eastern Australia has found climate change is helping tropical fish species invade temperate Australian ...
Apr. 17, 2024 During the unusually dry year of 2018, Sweden was hit by numerous forest fires. A research team has investigated how climate change affects recently burnt boreal forests and their ability to absorb ...
Apr. 15, 2024 Natural forest regeneration is hailed as a cost-effective way to restore biodiversity and sequester carbon. However, the fragmentation of tropical forests has restricted the movement of large birds ...
Apr. 10, 2024 Forests could also be potential bulwarks against climate change. But, increasingly severe droughts and wildfires, invasive species, and large insect ...
Apr. 10, 2024 A survey of orchid bees in the Brazilian Amazon, carried out in the 1990s, is shedding new light the impact of deforestation on the scent-collecting pollinators, which some view as bellwethers of ...
Apr. 8, 2024 Modelling climate change over a 500 year period shows that much of the boreal forest, the Earth's northernmost forests and most significant provider ...
Apr. 5, 2024 In a recent study, researchers found that 78% of the world's bird species do not thrive in the most modified human-dominated environments. These species are also most likely to have declining ...
Apr. 2, 2024 The oldest trees in the forest help to prevent the disappearance of endangered species in the natural environment, according to a new study. This is the case of the wolf lichen -- threatened ...
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Mar. 28, 2024 A recent study reveals an unexpected link between manganese -- a naturally occurring mineral -- and increased carbon emissions from high-latitude boreal forests. The study uncovers how manganese ...
Mar. 25, 2024 When officials make tough calls on which areas to prioritize for conservation, biodiversity is often their top consideration. But there are several types of diversity, and not all of them overlap ...
Mar. 14, 2024 We expect tropical animals to handle a certain degree of heat, but not wild swings in temperature. That seems to be true for tropical ectotherms, or 'cold-blooded' animals such as ...
Mar. 12, 2024 Rainforest seedlings are more likely to survive in natural forests than in places where logging has happened -- even if tree restoration projects have taken place, new research ...
Mar. 6, 2024 The findings suggest that subtropical seagrasses are less resilient to heavy grazing from marine herbivores, in part because they receive less sunlight relative to their tropical counterparts. As ...
Feb. 29, 2024 Eight new Pacific bee species and new insights into Fijian bird behaviour on Viti Levu Island have been described in new scientific studies. The research highlights the potential for species ...
Feb. 26, 2024 Forests have a critical role to play in capturing and storing carbon from the Earth's atmosphere -- but some models exaggerate their carbon removal potential by almost three-fold, according to a ...
Feb. 22, 2024 The annual rate of carbon emissions due to the degradation of carbon stocks in mangrove forests is predicted to rise by nearly 50,000% by the end of the century, according to a new study. Mangroves ...
Feb. 21, 2024 Every day, new areas of rainforests are converted into plantations, drastically changing tropical biodiversity and the way the ecosystem functions. Yet, the current understanding of the consequences ...
Feb. 15, 2024 Africa's forested areas -- an estimated 14 % of the global forest area -- are continuing to decline at an increasing rate -- mostly because of human activities to convert forest land for ...
Feb. 15, 2024 New research reveals the scale of inappropriate reforestation projects across Africa. A new study reveals that an area the size of France is threatened by forest restoration initiatives, such as the ...
Feb. 14, 2024 Global warming may be interacting with regional rainfall and deforestation to accelerate forest loss in the Amazon, pushing it towards partial or total collapse. New research has identified the ...
Feb. 13, 2024 Widespread 20th-century reforestation in the eastern United States helped counter rising temperatures due to climate change, according to new research. The authors highlight the potential of forests ...
Feb. 12, 2024 Researchers find deforestation accounts for about 10 percent of global human-made mercury emissions. While it cannot be the only solution, they suggest reforestation could increase global mercury ...
Feb. 7, 2024 Forests, which cover a third of Earth's land surface, are pivotal in carbon storage and the water cycle, though the full scope of their impact remains to be fully understood. In a new study, ...
Feb. 6, 2024 Extreme events wipe out entire forests, dramatically eliminating complex ecosystems as well as local communities. Researchers have become quite familiar with such attention-grabbing events over the ...
Feb. 1, 2024 Mangroves and saltmarshes sequester large amounts of carbon, mitigating the greenhouse effect. New research shows that these environments are perhaps twice as effective as previously ...
Jan. 29, 2024 Scientists have employed novel statistical methods to reveal the extent of biodiversity loss in Singapore over the past two centuries. The study paints the most accurate picture to date of the ...
Jan. 25, 2024 European forests with a greater diversity of tree species are more resilient to storms, according to new ...
Jan. 24, 2024 It's time to recognize the power of healthy forests in managing global growing flood risk, and to shift towards more sustainable forestry practices and ...
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- How Is Deforested Land in Africa Used?
- Reforestation Programs Could Threaten Vast Area of Tropical Grasslands
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- Preventing the Destruction of Eucalyptus Forest Plantations: Naturally Occurring Pathogenic Fungi to Control the Eucalyptus Snout Beetle
- Use of Habitat for Agricultural Purposes Puts Primate Infants at Risk
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- How National Policies Affect Forests in Border Regions
- Finding New Ways to Adapt to a Growing Weather Threat
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- Forest Modeling Shows Which Harvest Rotations Lead to Maximum Carbon Sequestration
- First Comprehensive Look at Effects of 2020-2021 California Megafires on Terrestrial Wildlife Habitat
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- Naturally Regrowing Forests Are Helping to Protect the Remaining Old Forests in the Amazon
- Diverse Forests Hold Huge Carbon Potential, as Long as We Cut Emissions
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
- 'Alien' Wasps Thriving in Tropical Forests
- Southern Alaska's National Forests Key to Meeting Climate, Conservation Goals
Monday, October 30, 2023
- Amazon Deforestation Linked to Long Distance Climate Warming
- Offset Markets: New Approach Could Help Save Tropical Forests by Restoring Faith in Carbon Credits
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- Farms That Create Habitat Key to Food Security and Biodiversity
- Extreme El Niño Weather Saw South America's Forest Carbon Sink Switch Off
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- National Parks Support Wildlife Inside and Outside Their Borders
- Deforestation Limits Nesting Habitat for Cavity-Nesting Birds
- Tree Mortality in the Black Forest on the Rise -- Climate Change a Key Driver
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
- Hundreds of Andean Bird Species at Risk Due to Deforestation: New Research Shows How to Protect Them
- Detecting a Vast Diversity of Rainforest Animals by Swabbing Their DNA from Leaves
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- Scientists Dig Into Wildfire Predictions, Long-Term Impacts
- Clearcut Logging Leads to More Frequent Flooding, Including Extreme Floods
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- Forest Can Adapt to Climate Change, but Not Quickly Enough
- Conservation in Indonesia Is at Risk, a Team of Researchers Who Study the Region Argues