... , the beetles will have done so much damage that the forest is expected to release more carbon dioxide than it absorbs ...
... many thought was impossible -- restoring a tropical rain forest ecosystem. When the researchers planted worn-out cattle ... in and flourish, raising the hope that destroyed rain forests could one day be replaced. Ten years after the tree ...
Scientists have rediscovered an animal last seen 112 years ago in the mossy forests of the Philippines and long thought to be extinct.
... and Wyoming, and they can place the blame on bugs. The U.S. Forest Service has closed some popular campgrounds in the two ... that trees killed by the bark beetles that are ravaging forests across the West could topple onto unsuspecting ...
California study suggests fire-free forests store less carbon.
... compared to the other greenhouse gas emissions caused by the use of forest residues for energy. On a national scale, soil ...
... say it's one of the largest experiments of its kind ever undertaken. "Are the forests of the future going to be taking up more carbon than today ... and project that number into the future because the region's forests are in flux. In fact, they are on the cusp of the most profound change ...
... in a large-scale, long-term experiment to glimpse the Great Lakes region's future forests ...
... of feather mosses, which grows in dense cushions on the forest floor. These bacteria convert nitrogen from the atmosphere ... as a regulator of newly fixed nitrogen into these boreal forests. For this same reason, elevated nitrogen deposition ...
Half of Papua New Guinea's forests will be lost or damaged in just over a decade, speeding up local climate change, unless logging is dramatically reduced, a study released Monday found.
... the natural input of new nitrogen into boreal forest ecosystems has been reported in Science. The researchers showed ...
... the climate on earth. Replacing fossil fuels with forest fuels is becoming more and more urgent. That would reduce ...
... as for the climate. However, it is likely that these benefits will be concentrated in forests with high carbon stocks and that land use change ... terms, but still rich in biodiversity, and on non-forest ecosystems such as savannahs, grasslands and wetlands, which would ...
... by lowering greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. These forests also pump moisture into the atmosphere through evapotranspiration ... and computer models have revealed the global harm that forest devastation can cause. As studies have explored the mechanisms ...
... of billions of dollars. However, concerns about the permanence of forest carbon stocks, challenges in quantifying changes ... activities. "With political will and the involvement of tropical regions, forests can contribute to both climate change protection ...
