The Cross River National Park, Oban biosphere, is one of the few forest reserves remaining in Nigeria.
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Nigeria’s forest resources have dwindled and are in danger of disappearing in a few decades if nothing is done to save them.
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We scanned the tree canopy with lasers and found birds much prefer the branches of big old trees.
Cattle are major producers of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
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Cattle are major producers of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. But there are methods that can reduce their climate impact – if ranchers have incentive to use them.
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Their incredible resilience means they are becoming part of the UK landscape.
The reason trees need sunlight is the same reason their leaves are green.
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Trees – and all plants – harvest sunlight to gain the energy they need to live and grow.
Cattle walk along an illegally deforested area in an extractive reserve near Jaci-Parana, Rondonia state, Brazil. Deforestation is a global problem and while it has varied causes the trade in illegal timber is a major factor.
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Effective use of genomic identification could revolutionize the control of the illegal timber trade.
The complex effects of planting more trees need to be taken into consideration.
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Planting trees to remove carbon from the atmosphere will only be effective alongside other strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
A Curious eastern grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis).
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New research suggests the gut bacteria of red and grey squirrels differ significantly, potentially explaining the decline of the native red and the success of its grey counterpart.
For decades, railroad tracks carried coal from eastern Tennessee to power plants in the eastern U.S.
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Large parts of Appalachia’s forests, once owned by coal companies, now make money for investors by storing carbon. But the results bring few jobs or sizable investments for residents.
Tyhume Valley in Eastern Cape, South Africa.
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Satellite images and community perceptions combine to give a fuller picture of land use changes.
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Incentives have so far benefited large landowners and created lifeless plantations.
An old-growth forest of noble fir trees at Marys Peak in Oregon’s Coast Range.
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President Biden has called for protecting large, old trees from logging, but many of them could be cut while the regulatory process grinds forward.
Looking up toward redwoods’ crowns in Redwood Regional Park, Oakland, Calif.
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Redwoods grow in networks that house unique communities of plants and animals high in the air. They offer life lessons about adapting over time.
Philadelphia’s neighborhoods are green and not so green.
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An interdisciplinary group of researchers at Penn State ran computer models on two Philadelphia census tracts. The neighborhood with more vulnerable residents was also hotter.
A wildfire burns a section of forest in the Grande Prairie district of Alberta.
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Current greenhouse gas inventories in Canada only consider “managed” lands. This must change before we can truly understand the scale of Canada’s carbon emissions.
People walk through the COP28 UN Climate Summit on Dec. 6, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
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Carbon capture and sequestration can play a role in limiting warming but the nuances of its application are far more complicated than just planting trees. Getting it wrong could make warming worse.
Trees of all kinds have pros and cons when it comes to sustainability.
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How many years you reuse a fake holiday tree matters. So does what happens to a live tree when you’ve packed up the ornaments.
The Sycamore Gap tree on Hadrian’s Wall, UK.
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The felling of iconic trees is a highly emotive issue – but the damage needs to be repaired with care.
Bulldozed land at the planned site of a controversial police training facility, with Atlanta in the distance.
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This isn’t the first time that US authorities have criminalized civil disobedience or framed grassroots organizing as a conspiracy.
Rural women are the primary producers of shea in northern Ghana.
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Shea is a key economic crop for poor women in the northern parts of Ghana.