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Some trees explode into bits when lightning strikes. Some seem fine and die later. But others are unaffected.
Land grabs spearheaded by wealthy interests are accelerating deforestation, and Brazil’s National Congress is working to legitimize them.
Inoculating trees with an edible fungi can produce more protein per hectare than pasture-raised beef, while reforesting, storing carbon and restoring biodiversity.
Maidenhair trees, Ginkgo biloba, can live for over 1,000 years and grow 35m tall. While they’re beautiful to look at, they’re also notorious for their vomit-smelling seeds.
Plants need light to feed themselves, so they grow in ways that help them collect as much of it as they can. Sometimes that’s straight up, but not always.
David Attenborough’s new BBC documentary The Green Planet shows plants are stranger than they first appear.
important decisions must be made today for urban greening programs to succeed in a warmer world.
Our surroundings will be very different over the duration of a typical mortgage.
Tree sunburn tends to occur during hot spring days or in early summer, when trees are full of moisture. So why does it happen? And which trees are most vulnerable?
As governments and corporations pledge to help the planet by planting trillions of trees, a new study spotlights an effective, low-cost alternative: letting tropical forests regrow naturally.
Climate change threatens the crucial storage of carbon in Aussie forests. Victoria’s national parks alone store almost 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.
Here’s what to look out for.
These 47,000 aspen trees are genetically identical clones with shared roots.
Welcome to an entirely new understanding of the world.
Deforestation in Brazil was falling before 2014. Under Bolsonaro, it’s back to record highs.
World leaders are slowly learning from decades of failure on tropical forest conservation.
Tree rings carry a wealth of information, which can be used to uncover climate data from hundreds of years ago.
Halting forest loss is a crucial milestone on the road to net zero.
Warm autumn weather has produced dull leaf colors across the eastern US this year, but climate change isn’t the only way that humans have altered trees’ fall displays.
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Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University
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Professor Emeritus of Global Change Biology and Terrestrial Systems Science, Oregon State University
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Professor Emeritus of International Environmental Policy, Tufts University
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Professor, Australian National University
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Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Birmingham
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Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the College, Grinnell College
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Distinguished Professor, Ecosystem Function and Integration, Western Sydney University
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Professor of Remote Sensing, Department of Geography; and NERC National Centre for Earth Observation, UCL
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Associate Professor in Urban Ecosystems, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Director Australian Urban Observatory, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Research botanist at the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium of South Australia/Environment Institute, University of Adelaide
