Across Australia, forests are quietly changing. Trees that once stood for decades or centuries are now dying at an accelerating rate. And this is not because of fire, storms, or logging. The chronic ...
John Parker, SERC senior scientist and co-lead scientist of the Functional Forests Project, plants a sapling in the new restoration experiment. To grow a successful forest, planting trees is not ...
Australia's forests are losing trees more rapidly as the climate warms, a new study examining decades of data said Tuesday, warning the trend was likely a "widespread phenomenon." The research used ...
In highly deforested landscapes and degraded forests, large-seeded big trees are losing out to opportunistic, fast-growing species, a recent study has found. Having examined 1,207 tree species across ...
In the second century BC, the Antikythera Mechanism astounded ancient astronomers with its ability to imitate the Moon's ...
There has been much global discussion about the best ways to manage Earth’s forests in an era of climate change and more frequent bushfires. In its new forest plan, the Victorian government has funded ...
A Warning to Climate Scientists: Don’t Miss the Forest for the Trees Suzanne Simard’s new book urges Western science to take a lesson from the more holistic Indigenous approach to forest preservation.
The national forests in the United States span an extraordinary range of landscapes. Desert peaks, swampy coastlines, and even a tropical rainforest all fall under the authority of the U.S. Forest ...
A Chinese proverb says that the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago, and the second best time is today. But it’s not easy to ensure the trees of today actually become the healthy, functioning ...