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Tree Rings May Underestimate Climate Response to Volcanic Eruptions
Some climate cooling caused by past volcanic eruptions may not be evident in tree-ring reconstructions of temperature change because large enough temperature drops lead to greatly shortened or even absent growing seasons, according to climate researchers,...
The Good News About Carbon Storage in Tropical Vegetation
A study published in Nature Climate Change finds that tropical vegetation contains 21 percent more carbon than previous studies had suggested. Using a combination of remote sensing and field data, scientists from Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC), Boston...
‘Non-invasive’ Cultivar? Buyer Beware
Cultivars of popular ornamental woody plants that are being sold in the United States as non-invasive are probably anything but, according to an analysis by botanical researchers published in the October issue of BioScience. Tiffany M. Knight of Washington...
Biomass Plants Proposed to Dispose of Fukushima Disaster Debris
Japan’s Forestry Agency is considering building biomass power plants that can use timber from the thousands of houses that were destroyed by the massive 11 March tsunami.
Orang-utan And Pygmy Elephant Survival in the Heart of Borneo Receives Major Boost
Orang-utan and Pygmy Elephant survival in the Heart of Borneo has received a major boost with the certification of nearly 300,000 hectares of important habitat in the forest reserves of Ulu Segama-Malua and Tangkulap-Pinangah, in the Malaysian state...
Nigeria to Plant One Billion Trees Across the Country As Part of Its Afforestation Program
The Nigerian government says it will plant about one billion trees across the country as part of its afforestation program.
National Park Foundation Launches 2011 Share The Experience Photo Contest
The National Park Foundation, in partnership with the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Forest Service, have announced the launch of the 2011 Share the Experience...
Odwalla to Donate Total of $100,000 Worth of Trees to State Parks for 2011 Plant a Tree Program
In a year being hailed as the “International Year of Forests” by the United Nations, Odwalla is celebrating by allowing consumers to become foresters. The Odwalla Plant a Tree program, now taking place for the fourth consecutive...
