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• Forests (ecology)

  Let forests grow old to store huge volume of carbon – study

  13 November, by GREENFIELD Patrick

  Report says cutting emissions should still be key priority as it cautions against mass monoculture tree-planting
  Forest conservation and restoration could make a major contribution to tackling the climate crisis as long as greenhouse gas emissions are slashed, according to a study.
  By (...)

• Forests (ecology)

  The world’s boreal forests may be shrinking as climate change pushes them northward

  3 November, by BERNER Logan , COOPER David J., DIAL Roman, ROTBARTH Ronny

  The world’s boreal forests may be shrinking as climate change pushes them northward
  Earth’s boreal forests circle our planet’s far northern reaches, just south of the Arctic’s treeless tundra. If the planet wears an Arctic ice cap, then the boreal forests are a loose-knit headband wrapped (...)

• Forests (ecology)

  How do trees die?

  10 April, by STEVENS-RUMANN Camille

  Even in death, a tree helps others live.
  Trees can die suddenly or quite slowly.
  Fire, flood or wind can cause a quick death by severely damaging a tree’s ability to transport water and nutrients up and down its trunk.
  Sometimes a serious insect attack or disease can kill a tree. This (...)

• Forests (ecology)

  Lessons from the rush to reforest

  5 May 2021, by BRAXTON LITTLE Jane

  Tree-growing projects must match the right species with the right location, and put local communities at the front and centre of operations.
  When an international team of scientists announced in 2019 the potential of restoring forests to slow climate change, the world grabbed shovels. (...)

• Forests (ecology)

  Lessons (United States) - Here’s how forests rebounded from Yellowstone’s epic 1988 fires – and why that could be harder in the future

  28 April 2018, by TURNER Monica G.

  Monica G. Turner (University of Wisconsin-Madison) looks back at the huge fire that hit Yellowstone Park in the United States in 1988. She tells us what happened after 500 000 hectares went up in smoke, but asks: what lies ahead?.
  This summer marks the 30^th anniversary of the 1988 (...)