From CLIMATE DEPOT By Marc Morano By Tom DeWeese Most Americans today tend to think of private property simply as a home – the place where the family resides, stores…
Greens frequently oppose controlled burns to manage flammable forest fuel buildups. But would greens oppose the traditional wisdom of an indigenous "cultural burn"?
"We need our forests and other plant-covered areas to provide a 'natural climate solution' of removing carbon dioxide from the air, but heat and drought caused by the very problem we're trying to solve could make it more...
A team of researchers established that approximately half of all trees planted to restore tropical forests in Asia do not survive beyond five years. The researchers included experts from 29 universities and research centers...
The legal fight to rescue the treasured forest from windpark industrialization has begun.
But all of that carbon in trees and forests worldwide could be thrown back into the atmosphere again if the trees burn up in a forest fire.
The mutual relationships between forests and climate are actually really rather more complex and not fully understood.
An international team of researchers carried out a study to determine the heat and moisture threshold for Earth's forests. Published in Nature Communications, the study answers "how hot is too hot" and "how dry is too dry"...
How hot is too hot, and how dry is too dry, for the Earth’s forests?
An increasing number of companies are looking to Western Australia for potential high-grade silica mine locations to meet global demand, but locals fear for the future of pristine national parks.
Climate ambulance chasers are trying to bag another photogenic wildfire for their cause. But Colorado legislated a moratorium on prescribed burns in 2012, following a burn fail which ended in three fatalities.
Instead of banning logging in the Amazon, climate activists should encourage managed logging, to help draw down more CO2 from the atmosphere.
Reducing available fuel seems and obvious strategy for fire risk management. But according to the CSIRO, the real culprit is climate change.
More than 100 leaders from around the world pledged to reverse deforestation by 2030, in what's being lauded as the first big achievement of COP26...
“The conclusion is that forest managers therefore have some control in climate change over how much the forests entrusted to them heat up and are potentially damaged as a result...
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