ANU gives koalas a home and care after bushfires
Koalas displaced and injured by Australia’s bushfire crisis are being cared for and housed temporarily…
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Climate (not humans) shaped early forests of New England
A new study in the journal Nature Sustainability overturns long-held interpretations of the role humans played in…
Climate change unlikely to drive sugar maples north
Climate is an important factor in determining a plant species’ growing zone. Some studies suggest…
Wildlife needs fire-damaged and dead trees after fires
Rather than an untidy mess, fire-damaged trees and half burnt logs left behind by a…
Poplars genetically modified not to harm air quality grow as well as non-modified trees
Field trials in the Northwest and Southwest show that poplar trees can be genetically modified…
In ancient scottish rings, a cautionary tale on climate, politics and survival
Using old tree rings and archival documents, historians and climate scientists have detailed an extreme cold…
New online initiative offers holiday shoppers chance to give unique gift of forest conservation
This holiday season, Global Wildlife Conservation is offering the chance to give the gift of…
Degraded soils mean tropical forests may never fully recover from logging
Continually logging and re-growing tropical forests to supply timber is reducing the levels of vital…
Linked environmental problems amplify human impact on the Earth System
The bushfires raging across Australia are a distressing example of connections between global environmental problems…
Forest fragmentation hits wildlife hardest in the tropics
Animals that evolved in environments subject to large-scale habitat-altering events like fires and storms are…