Forestry

Credit: USDA Forest Service photograph In the past 5 years, Chicago residents have purchased nearly 1,300 vacant lots and replaced weed trees and sagging fences with gardens and children's play areas. In doing so, they have…

Holistic study charts effects of the coronavirus on sectors and regions globallyCredit: University of Sydney The first comprehensive study of the pandemic shows consumption losses amount to more than US$3.8 trillion, triggering full-time…

Credit: Western Pacific Tropical Research Center, University of Guam The need to cover an open wound on cycad stem cuttings has been confirmed by the Western Pacific Tropical Research Center at the University of Guam in a study…

Credit: West Virginia University As demand increases for sustainable and environmentally friendly energy and products, the Mid-Atlantic region with its abundance of forests and abandoned mine land is poised to grow its…

As increasing areas of the Amazonian rainforest are converted into agricultural land, scientists are examining how this is linked with local communities' food accessCredit: © CIAT Ten years ago, non-indigenous households from three…

Rutgers-led research highlights lesser-known options with fewer trade-offsCredit: Pamela McElwee/Rutgers University-New Brunswick How can some of world's biggest problems - climate change, food security and land degradation - be…

Credit: Miao Sun GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- In a surprise twist, a major group of flowering plants is evolving twice as quickly in temperate zones as the tropics. The finding runs counter to a long-held hypothesis that tropical regions,…

Credit: William J. Baker Characteristics of palm trees differ from those of other tropical trees in many ways. In a major new study led by scientists at Uppsala University, Sweden, and University of Campinas, Brazil, they…

Credit: Hirotaka Komine/ TUAT Light pollution is increasingly being recognized as yet another of humanity's many impacts on the rest of the natural world. Artificial light at night, or "ALAN" to use the researchers' name…

Credit: Jonathan Coop, Western Colorado University One of Jonathan Coop's first vivid memories as a child was watching the flames of the 1977 La Mesa Fire in north-central New Mexico. The human-caused fire burned more than…

Credit: Leonie-Alexa Koch, Institute of Synthetic Biology, University of Düsseldorf. University of East Anglia scientists have helped find a way to control different plant processes - such as when they grow - using…

How agriculture is altering the climate of the Cerrado Credit: Image by Stephanie Spera. Brazil is one of the top three producers of both soy and corn globally, and its agricultural sector accounts for one-fifth of the…

Environmental destruction may make pandemics more likely and less manageable, new research suggests. The study, by the University of the West of England and the Greenpeace Research Laboratories at the University of Exeter,…

Credit: NASA image courtesy Worldview Earth Data operated by the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Earth Science Data and Information System (EOSDIS) project. Caption by Lynn Jenner with information from Global Forest... …

New Research: Mountain Meadow Restoration Can Bring Birds Back In a new study led by scientists at Point Blue Conservation Science and in collaboration with The Institute for Bird Populations, authors evaluated the successes of…

Credit: (Photos: Ansgar Kahmen / University of Basel) Until now, 2003 was considered as the driest and hottest year since the beginning of instrumental climate recording. This record can now be considered obsolete: "The past…

Credit: Cristian Echeverría "Through a counterfactual analysis, we showed that between 1986 and 2011 the incentives to afforestation in Chile caused an increase in forest plantations, but reduced the extent of native…

A study published in the journal Wetlands documents an invasion happening in the Adirondacks: the black spruce, tamarack, and other boreal species are being overcome by trees normally found in warmer, more temperate forests.…

Credit: Michigan State University Smokey the Bear says that only you can prevent wildfires, but what if Smokey had a high-tech backup? In a new study, a team of Michigan State University scientists designed and fabricated…

New UD study shows that tropical forest loss is increased by large-scale land acquisitionsCredit: Photo courtesy of Kyle Davis In recent years, there has been a rise in foreign and domestic large-scale land acquisitions--defined as…