Forests thrive where cultural values are deep, discover the study
Credit: E. Camilo Alejo The forests on the native land of Panama have remained remarkably stable in the past two ...
Tag: forests
New temperature conditions discovered in two-thirds of major tropical forests
The threatened Kilimanjaro colobus (Colobus caudatus) is found only in highland forests on the Tanzania-Kenya border, straddling two key biodiversity ...
Ozone pollution reduces annual growth of tropical forests by 5.1%, study finds
Dr Alexander Cheesman tends to seedlings at the TropOz research centre established by the Universities of Exeter and James Cook. ...
Tropical forests face increased soil carbon loss due to climate change
From right to left, Daniela Cusak, Karis McFarlane and Andy Nottingham of LLNL collect soil samples in a rainforest. Credit: ...
Carbon emissions from the destruction of mangrove forests are expected to increase by 50,000% by the end of the century
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public domain The annual rate of carbon emissions from the degradation of carbon stocks in mangrove forests is ...
Study reveals how kelp forests persisted during the Great Pacific Marine Heatwave of 2014-2016
Wild kelp forests seen during a beach dive at Carmel Monastery, California. Credit: Monterey Bay Aquarium / Patrick Webster New ...
Vines strangle forests in hot weather and threaten planet’s cooling ‘carbon sink’
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public domain As Earth records its hottest year on record, a global research collaboration has found that warmer ...
New study shows sea otters helped prevent widespread decline of California’s kelp forests over the past century
A raft of sea otters (Enhydra nereis) congregate on the back deck of the Monterey Bay Aquarium in kelp. Credit: ...
Fossils show that kelp predates the animals we see in kelp forests today
An Credit: Dula Parkinson/Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory The unique underwater kelp forests that line the Pacific coast ...
Study reveals synchrony linking kelp forests to the beach
Shorebirds feed on kelp on a California beach. Credit: Jenny Dugan, UC Santa Barbara The Santa Barbara Channel's kelp forests ...
