#Forests
BC Govt News: Changes to lumber regulation will drive local manufacturing, job growth https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2023FOR0067-001843 #Forests
Prompt (4th image): "4k breathtaking photo of a white fox in snowy mountains, intricate realistic details"
Model: snowchimera ( hyugen.com/sc )
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#aiart #stablediffusion #AIArtworks #AIArtCommuity #landscape #landscapes #forest #midjourneyart #midjourneyai #midjourneyaiart #midjourney #forests #mountain #mountains #wallpaper #wallpapers
Brazil has proposed a new $250 billion mechanism for conserving the world’s tropical rainforests.
The “Tropical Forests Forever” fund, sourced from governments and the private sector, would disburse money to tropical countries that achieve set thresholds for limiting deforestation.
#News #Conservation #Environment #Brazil #Rainforests #Forests
#MountainMonday: happy to share our recent #AlpSoil_Lab paper on soil fauna in #mountain meadows and mixed forests.
As agricultural areas are limited in mountain regions, they need to be used efficiently and therefore #grasslands often are embedded in #forests with no buffer zones (field margins).
--> well separated #SoilFauna communities, but the missing ecotones impede their exchange.
#OpenAccess paper in #SoilOrganisms --> https://soil-organisms.org/index.php/SO/article/view/338/325
Just some fog drifting slowly up a redwood canyon—what’s behind that veil of mist?
Our image of a Krefft's glider made it to the cover of the most recent issue in Ecography 🥳
We found that richness of gliding vertebrates was linked to taller forest height and density.
Check out the paper here:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.06435
https://www.ecography.org/content/december-2023
#ecology #forest #forests #tree #mammals #NaturePhotograhpy #conservation
Helping out forest regrowth by clearing grasses and other competing plants is a simple way to let trees grow into large carbon sinks. #realcarboncapture #carboncapture #forestsink #forests #climatechange #themacheteproject #macheteproject #pasopacifico #ashoka #societalthinking #naturalcapital
#BilboToday becomes #BilboPaths. You can follow the hashtag for more. I'll never forget what this fascinating and loving personality of a dog taught me about #nature and how to change my perspective.
As soon as I'm mobile again (carrying the dog last threw my physiotherapy back), I'm walking our old #paths again and talk about #nature!
My kofi: https://ko-fi.com/naturematchcuts/goal?g=35
RIP Bilbo💔
#naturelovers #ReconnectingWithNature #hiking #forests #biodiversity #NatureMatchCuts #podcast #kinship
Empathy needs to be protected against the cowardice of hate.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-67597566
#StitchedInkMedia #amazon #Protection #Indigenous #Hate #Nature #Environment #Peru #Forests
When #forests are cleared or #peatland is drained or burnt to raise #livestock or grow crops [also for feed], #carbon is released into the atmosphere; #deforestation is e.g. responsible for nearly 80% of #emissions from food production in Brazil: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/factbox-how-food-agriculture-contribute-climate-change-2023-12-02/ #grazing
Shot: The new ‘scramble for #Africa’: how a #UAE sheikh quietly made carbon deals for #forests bigger than UK
“#UnitedArabEmirates has the third biggest plans for #oilandgas expansion in the world” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/30/the-new-scramble-for-africa-how-a-uae-sheikh-quietly-made-carbon-deals-for-forests-bigger-than-uk #biodiversity #carbonoffsets
Chaser: #SaudiArabia’s grand plan to ‘hook’ poor countries on oil
“The #Saudi government is like a drug dealer trying to get #Africa hooked on its harmful product” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/27/revealed-saudi-arabia-plan-poor-countries-oil #globalwarming #climatechange #COP28 #fossilfuel
A Legacy of Logging
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-01/ai-analysis-finds-failed-forest-regrowth-after-logging-/103153614
This is an environmental shitshow. Successive governments over the years have mismanaged our forests, and viewed them as a resource that can be extracted from over and over again. Logging by VicForests should have stopped decades ago, and it's been clear that their claims of regrowing / regenerating areas they logged have failed. Claims of carbon sequestration by replanting in cleared forests don't stack up, and it does little to prevent or repair harm to the rain/water/catchment cycle.
The legacy of logging on Victoria is permanent damage to the environment.
#Environment #Forests #Forestry #OldGrowthForest #AusPol #VicPol
For decades, chainsaws have ripped through the #nativeforests of south-east #Australia. Across Australia, Victoria’s #forests have been logged more than any other mainland state over the past two decades.
Now the state is shutting its native #logging industry in a matter of weeks, and the forests that were once given to Victoria’s state-run logging agency, #VicForests, are being returned to the public.
#deforestation
BC Govt News: FESBC promotes safe communities, creates jobs, supports forest industry https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2023FOR0069-001877 #Forests
Data pinpoints extensive areas of 'failed' regrowth after logging of the 'most magnificent forests'
By Michael Slezak, Mark Doman, Katia Shatoba, and Alex Palmer
An AI-based analysis of 20 years of logging by VicForests, shared exclusively with the ABC, shows for the first time, the potential scale of failed regeneration in Victoria's state forests.
#ForestryLoggingandTimberIndustry #EnvironmentalImpact #EnvironmentalPolicy #Forests #Forestry #Conservation #EnvironmentalManagement #MichaelSlezak #MarkDoman #KatiaShatoba # #AlexPalmer
This one hits literally close to home for me. In Oregon's coast range, where I spend about half of my life, clearcutting is threatening water quality for fish, wildlife, and us.
Wood can be a sustainable renewable resource. There are places where it is, especially where Indigenous people manage timber. We're doing it wrong, at a massive scale, and it has to change.
#Oregon #PNW #forests
https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/oregon-s-drinking-water-risk-clearcutting
BC Govt News: Ministers’ statement on U.S. ‘sunset’ review of softwood lumber duties https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2023FOR0068-001879 #Forests
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/29/from-tree-planting-to-sponge-cities-why-nature-based-solutions-are-crucial-to-fighting-the-climate-crisis | From tree planting to ‘sponge cities’: why nature-based solutions are crucial to fighting the climate crisis |
"The natural world underpins human civilisation on every corner of the planet. From oceans to rainforests, grasslands to mangrove swamps, ecosystems feed billions of humans, produce clean water and provide materials for shelter." | #environment #Earth #sustainability #water #forests #wetlands #oceans #biosphere #ecology #climate #ClimateChange #life
🔌 Biofuels in the Pan Amazon
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/biofuels-in-the-pan-amazon/
#biofuels #brazil #environment #decarbonization #deforestation #forests #tropics
Mountain Fire Lookout Tower in Mountain, Wisconsin
Once part of an extensive network of fire towers, this is one of the few remaining in this Wisconsin forest.#forests #towers #fires #section-Atlas
Mountain Fire Lookout Tower
Destruction across the Amazon rainforest so far this year has slowed dramatically, down 55.8% from the same period a year ago in a major turnaround for the region vital to curbing climate change. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2023/11/29/resources/amazon-rainforest-destruction-slows/?utm_content=buffer23a2b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #environment #resources #brazil #colombia #peru #bolivia #forests #environment
Donated for #givingtuesday to the Redwood Rising project. Forests are something I’m passionate about. #trees #redwood #forests
Black Energy Policy and Sustainability Scholars: To apply to the UBC Forestry and Land and Food Systems Black Cohort position in Food, Forests and BioFuels – Policy:
https://ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfacultyjobs/details/Assistant-Professor-in-Food--Forests-and--Bio-Fuels---Policy_JR15484-1
#BlackScholars #BlackInSTEM #Policy #Sustainability #Energy #ClimateChange #Food #Forests #Farms #Biofuels #Bioenergy
Black Ecologists: To apply to the UBC Forestry and Land and Food Systems Black Cohort position in Food, Forests and BioFuels – Ecology:
#Ecology #BlackScholars #BlackInSTEM #Food #Forests #Farms #Biofuels #Bioenergy
Calling all Black ecologists/energy policy researchers:
UBC Forestry & UBC Land and Food Systems are hiring 2 scholars engaged in research related to Food, Forests, and BioFuels as part of a Black Faculty Cluster Hire Initiative. More details included below. Please share and apply, apply, apply!
#Bioenergy #Food #Forests #Farms #Energy #ClimateChange #Sustainability #EnergyPolicy #FoodPolicy
Interesting new paper on community forest governance and forest benefits (carbon, biodiversity, livelihoods). What I like is that they don't assume the benefits can be seen in isolation and that different forests provide different mixes of these benefits. Finally, the look at the odds that particular forms of governance are associated with particular forest types.
🥑 "Americans Love Avocados. It’s Killing Mexico’s Forests."⤵️
#Americans #Avocados #Mexico #Forests #deforestation #Environment
New on Entomology Today: The USDA Forest Service funds hundreds of projects every year to protect our nation's woodlands. Included in these projects are several different types of pest management strategies spanning a wide range of pests, forest types, and ecosystems. A new article in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management reviews USFS pest-management research from 2011 to 2020, which helped manage over 2.2 million hectares of forest. #entomology #insects #forests https://entomologytoday.org/2023/11/28/usda-forest-service-research-protects-woodlands-insect-pests/
🧐 Como definir o que é uma floresta? um conjunto de árvores, vegetais, animais, insetos, águas? Um lugar impenetrável, misterioso, ameaçador, refúgio e perdição?
📖 Cristina Joanaz de Melo foi uma das editoras do dossier "Histórias das florestas e florestas nas estórias e memórias: diálogos entre passado, presente e futuro", publicado na revista Antíteses.
🔓 Inteiramente disponível em #AcessoAberto: https://bit.ly/3sSmI4z
#Histodons #EnvHist #EnvironmentalHistory #Forests #OpenAccess
"The problems of scalability, the competition of agricultural inputs with foodstuffs, #forests and wildlife, and the #carbon emissions that result from land use change are just three of the shortcomings that ensure SAFs will not be the magic bullet that the #aviation industry would have us believe. Despite this, #SAF fever has won over the White House."
https://theconversation.com/why-the-worlds-first-flight-powered-entirely-by-sustainable-aviation-fuel-is-a-green-mirage-218544
"Brazil to propose mega fund to conserve forests at COP28 climate summit"
Guardian environment pledge 2023
What impact does the Guardian have on the natural world?
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/28/what-impact-does-the-guardian-have-on-the-natural-world
WOW! Guardian has done a thorough anslysis of it's carbon and environmental impact. There's an example for mediafield.
#natureloss #carbonfootprint #printing #newspaper #media #speciesloss #forests #climatechange #business #environmentaldiversity #accountability
If you’re interested in activist history, this podcast is a conversation about forest campaigning in East Gippsland, Australia. First episode is the genesis of GECO in early 1990s. It covers both the personal impact of forest blockading and a broader discussion on organising. Listen on @3CR community radio melbourne. New episodes hopefully dropping weekly (if I edit them in time…)
https://www.3cr.org.au/geco30years/episode/episode-1-early-years-geco
#activism #activisthistory #forests #climatechange
“Boreal #forests’ northward advance has been spotty and slower than expected. Meanwhile, their southern retreat has been faster than scientists predicted.
As scholars who study northern ecosystems, forests and wetlands, we see concerning evidence that as the world warms, its largest forest wilderness appears to be shrinking.”
#climate #environment #climatechange (via @TheConversationUS)
Terra do Meio Ecological Station, a pristine reserve under federal protection, has suffered invasions amid efforts to open up an illegal road cutting through the rainforest.
Much of the deforestation is spilling over from APA Triunfo do Xingu, a sustainable use reserve that has become one of the most deforested corners of the Amazon in recent years.
By Ana Ionova
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/in-brazils-amazon-a-clandestine-road-threatens-a-pristine-reserve/
#News #Conservation #Environment #Brazil #Deforestation #Forests
RT by @EU_ENV: How much do you know about 🇪🇺 forests? 🤔
Our infographics show a snapshot📸 of the key facts behind #forests, including:
🌲 Forest carbon sequestration
🌲 Conditions of forest #ecosystems
🌲 Calls for urgent protective measures
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/SfEP/status/1729061682268278905#m
[2023-11-27 08:56 UTC]
Q. have #forests played a big enough role in our responses to the #climatecrisis?
Likely not argues Professor Mary Gagen for @BylinesCymru
Will #Cop28 be an opportunity to change direction?
Or will illegal logging & perverse subsidies for forest clearing continue to undermine the role #trees can play in our #greentranstion?
Well we'll see, but I'm not holding my breath!
BC Govt News: Minister’s statement on Holodomor Memorial Day https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2023FOR0068-001844 #Forests
🌳How does the 🚨#ClimateEmergency impact the world's #forests?🌳
Gong et al.🌳reveal that #climate factors affect🌳forest🌳biomass allocation🌳by altering #soil nutrient availability🌳and #leaf traits.🌳https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13545
@wileyplantsci
#PlantSci #PlantDevelopment #botany #trees🌳
BC Govt News: Public feedback wanted for Sunshine Coast Forest Landscape Plan https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2023FOR0066-001823 #Forests
Researchers reveal how #mycorrhizal species regulate plant-soil #carbon in forests
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-reveal-mycorrhizal-species-plant-soil-carbon.html
Mycorrhizal type regulates trade-offs between #plant and #soil carbon in #forests https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01864-5
"Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) and ectomycorrhizal (ECM) #fungi are the most common types of #MycorrhizalFungi. The type of plant-mycorrhizal association is critical for #forest carbon cycling by influencing plant growth, nutrient acquisition, and soil #CarbonStorage."
New global stocktake: Healthy forests could store much more carbon #forests #carbon https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/11/231116141005.htm
#Reminder for ppl dumb enough to believe #BCNDP wanted to protect #OldGrowth #forests on #VancouverIsland.
Current #moratorium doesn't cover many of #VancouverIsland old growth #trees & several hectares of untouched forests were #clearcut fast - right before #BCNDP #NewDeathParty put out notice. Jeff Jones is Horgan's fishing pal.
There's massive corruption on #VancouverIsland.
I met #JohnHorgan when he was a corrupt casino lobbyist. He works for ecocidal coal now. He lied about a LOT.
#POS
For #Climate, Protecting Forests Is Way Better Than Planting Trees
By allowing existing trees to grow old in healthy ecosystems and restoring degraded areas, scientists say 249 gigatons of #carbon could be sequestered, equivalent to nearly 50 years of US #emissions for 2022.
Humans have cleared about half of Earth’s #forests and continue to destroy places such as the #Amazon rainforest and the Congo basin that play crucial roles in regulating the planet’s atmosphere.
#Forests may capture 226 Gt of #carbon in areas where they would naturally exist, 61% by protecting existing forests & allowing them to regrow to maturity, 39% by reconnecting fragmented #landscapes thru ecosystem restoration; #biodiversity is needed, too: https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2023/11/diverse-forests-hold-huge-carbon-potential-as-long-as-we-cut-emissions.html
Huge loss - they were a critical source for lots of data and reporting, including mine, on supply chain links to #deforestation in SE Asia.
Another sign of how transparency in #supplychains is getting worse, not better. #Indonesia #Climate #Forests
https://www.eco-business.com/news/deforestation-risk-think-tank-chain-reaction-research-winds-down/
More mist in the forest today, with distant mountains. #Cairngorms #Strathspey #forests #mist
#thicktrunktuesday
What NOT to do with thick trunk trees growing in a state park in #California.
Restoring global forests could sequester 22 times as much carbon as the world emits in a year, according to a scientific study, making the case that trees are a key tool in confronting the climate crisis along with cutting fossil fuels. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2023/11/14/climate-change/forests-climate-fossil-fuels/?utm_content=buffer15526&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #environment #climatechange #forests #climatechange #cop28 #carbon #emissions
Virginia’s arboreal future is more secure thanks in part to acorn enthusiasts - #volunteers - who gathered more than a million specimens this year as part of a state program.
Gifted article from the Washington Post.
#forests #trees
https://wapo.st/49AKthY
#Forests with multiple tree species are 70% more effective as #carbon sinks than monoculture forests https://phys.org/news/2023-11-forests-multiple-tree-species-effective.html
Young mixed planted forests store more carbon than monocultures: Emily Warner et al. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2023.1226514/full
"Restored forests store C within the forest's #soil, #shrubs, and #trees. Mixed forests are especially effective, as different species with complementary traits can increase overall C storage... they are also more resilient to pests, diseases, and disturbances"
How looked temperate #forests like in the last Interglacial period (129,000–116,000 years ago), before Homo sapiens–linked #megafauna declines and #anthropogenic landscape transformation changed the conditions?
A new paper shows that the temperate forest biome was historically heterogeneous with quite some open areas rather than uniformly dense, which is consistent with the dependency of much of contemporary European #biodiversity on open vegetation and light woodland.
"How underground fungi shape forests"
#RespectForTheNeighbors #ecology #fungi #forests
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-underground-fungi-forests.html
Greenpeace calls for forest company to lose its eco certification https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/paper-excellence-greenpeace-fsc-complaint-1.7021203 #forests #Greenpeace #FSC
Rubber tyres and disappearing tropical forests
High-resolution maps show that rubber causes substantial deforestation
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06642-z
Eliminating deforestation from rubber supply chains
https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/conl.12967?af=R
#TropicalForests #deforestation #trucks #cars #tyres
#policy #SupplyChains #rubber #forests #biodiversity
To slow the effects of #climate change and conserve #biodiversity, replanting #trees is vital.
Mixed #forests are especially effective at carbon storage.
Mixed forests are also more resilient to pests, diseases, and climatic disturbances, which increases their long-term carbon storage potential.
The delivery of other #ecosystem services is also greater in mixed species forests, and they support higher levels of biodiversity.
#ecology #biology
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-forests-multiple-tree-species-effective.html
"Grazers can bring myriad benefits to landscapes. Bison can improve plant diversity in Midwest #prairies by cropping dominant grasses. Elephants boost #carbon storage in African #forests by munching on less carbon-rich trees.
"But there’s another side to the coin. Their appetite for greenery, particularly when inflicted on already damaged #ecosystems or left untamed by predators, can wreak havoc."
UK forests face 'catastrophic ecosystem collapse' #UnitedKingdom #UK #environment #ecosystem #forests https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67350897
#thicktrunktuesday A “nurse log” downed redwood trunk supporting the growth of another #tree. Nature is a model of #recycling with no throw-aways.
#LandBack and #rematriation are proving to be highly effective ways to effect long-term Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClinateChange mitigation, in addition to being morally righteous and long overdue.
"#Western #conservationists have...ignored #Indigenous people’s knowledge of #landscapes and #wildlife...that is no longer tenable...Indigenous-managed lands host 80 percent of the world’s #biodiversity...and...much of the...intact #forests, #savannas and #marshes."
Progress! A landback effort in Maine will return 31,000 acres of #forests 🌲and rivers to Penobscot tribal care after land is paid off. Gift article from @washingtonpost
#landback #socialjustice #climateaction
#maine #nativeamerican
I took the photos for this article in Stone Valley Forest, in central Pennsylvania. It's a great place for fall hiking
I've got a new article up on my Substack, discussing a recent paper by Mu et al. that examines the relationship between tree size and tree age, and the implications for conserving old trees.
The Paper:
Mu, Y., Lindenmayer, D., Zheng, S., Yang, Y., Wang, D., & Liu, J. (2023). Size-focused conservation may fail to protect the world’s oldest trees. Current Biology.
#forests #trees #ecology #conservation #dendrochronology #substack
Read my post on Substack for free here:
https://open.substack.com/pub/benlockwood/p/age-before-beauty?r=1x8f3o&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Forests are vital to protect the climate, yet the world is falling far behind its targets #climate #ClimateChange #forest #forests https://phys.org/news/2023-11-forests-vital-climate-world-falling.html
"The problem is...people live and work on these lands. #Communities have to see a benefit in regrowing and maintaining lost #forests...this is, again, developed #Western #nations asking the least developed communities to shoulder the weight of their past [and barely abated] #ecological damage...every #community [has] different needs and...challenges."
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once must include Everyone, Everywhere, All the Time.
Nothing is more relaxing or calming to the body & soul than spending time in Nature … a stroll along a beach at sunset, sitting on a mountaintop & just “being” or a taking a walk in an arboreal forest. Photographed in the Nantahala National Forest of Western North Carolina.
Available here with #FreeShipping US & Canada: https://www.pictorem.com/879893/The%20Forest%20Deep.html
#forest #forests #woods #NorthCarolina #Nantahala #Nature #NaturePhotography #photography #MastoPhoto #BuyIntoArt #fediverse #FediGiftShop
The forest floors are a riot of colour at the moment. I know the orange peel fungus but the others are a mystery to me, I just enjoy finding them. The #seek app, always a good place to start, takes me as far as the agaricomycetes for both, which is not overly useful I know but sounds better than just saying "mushroom" 🍄 🙂 Any opinions welcome 🙂
#FungiFriday #Fungus #highlands #isleofskye #autumncolours #forests #scotland #ScotlandPhotography
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"Planting one trillion trees is wrong,” said Makarieva. Setting a numerical or area-based target “is lying to people”. Instead, the goal should be to restore ecosystem functionality. Just as mature trees with intact soil store far more #carbon than young tree plantations, so, too, mature native #forests are far more effective at regulating #water and #climate, she said."
A beautiful plea for using the small water cycle & forests to reduce the severity of climate change.
“It’s easy to understand that when people arrived on this landscape, that it was a landscape that was shaped and maintained by fire and that it was exquisitely beautiful,” White says.
“It’s easy to understand that traditional knowledge of #fire should be integrated into fire management practices today, but, man, that’s hard to achieve.”
#forests #wildfires #forestry #books #california
https://www.rewildingmag.com/indigenous-forest-management-a-culture-of-burning/
A study published in Nature uses satellite data to produce high-resolution maps of rubber-driven forest loss in south-east Asia since 1993 and finds that more than 4m hectares of tropical forests have been lost to rubber plantations in south-east Asia over the last three decades – at least two-to-three times more than previously thought.
#Rubber #Deforestation #Forests #SouthEastAsia
#Indonesia
#Thailand
#Cambodia
#Malaysia
#Nature
#News: "The best thing we can do for #forests is to eliminate our #meat intake. For each person who chooses to switch to a meat-free diet, an estimated 100 animals per year could be spared a terrible fate" Go #vegan #vegan4theanimals Story: @counterpunch https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/08/22/how-to-fix-our-food-system/
At some point, we lost sight of the fact that to harm nature is to harm ourselves.
#nature #biodiversity #environment #climate #forests #LoggingIsACrime #GoVeganForTheEarth
A deep purple-grey mushroom, found near Kyle. Possibly a violet webcap? Possibly not. I know little about fungi and this is as far as searching "purple mushroom Scotland " has got me.... 🙂 Stood about 10 to 12cm high if anyone can offer an opinion... all I can say for certain is that I've never taken a photo of one before 🤷♂️🙂
#fungi #fungusphotography #Forests #MushroomsOfMastodon #kyleoflochalsh #RossAndCromarty #Kyle #scotland
#America's new #ClimateCorps will need to be a lot bigger
Climate Corps is rebirth of #CivilianConservationCorps, which put 3M to work during #GreatDepression developing #nationalparks, building roads & trails, & managing #forests. Mountain towns need hands to clear dead vegetation fueling bigger #wildfires. Coastal communities need help restoring seaside ecosystems that absorb storm surge. Urban areas need people & funds to plant trees, mitigating “heat island effect”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/american-climate-corps-joe-biden-youth-workforce/
"Romania is home to one of the largest and most important old-growth forests left in the world. Its Carpathian mountain chain, which wraps like a seat belt across the country’s middle and upper shoulder, hosts at least half of Europe’s remaining old growth outside Scandinavia and around 70 percent of the continent’s virgin forest.
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There’s one obvious, notable beneficiary of this situation: Ikea. The company is now the largest individual consumer of wood in the world, its appetite growing by two million trees a year. According to some estimates, it sources up to 10 percent of its wood from the relatively small country of Romania, and has long enjoyed relationships with mills and manufacturers in the region."
#nature #logging #forests #capitalism
https://newrepublic.com/article/165245/ikea-romania-europe-old-growth-forest
Halfway through summer sunset, Scoville Reservoir, Wolcott, Connecticut. August 4, 2019, 8:22 PM. The day is done, but half of Astronomical summer still lies ahead.
#hiking #photography #landscapephotography #hikingadventures #nature #Connecticut #trails #lake #lakes #forests #forest #summertime #summer #August #sunset #sunsets #sunsetcaptures #sunsetphotography
A two-decade-old experiment in the tropical rainforest of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, is beginning to reveal that human-assisted restoration of logged forests can increase the speed of an ecosystem’s recovery.
The researchers also found that planting a diverse suite of seedlings, instead of only one species, led in just one decade to greater biomass and forest complexity.
By Jeremy Hance
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/forest-restoration-can-fare-better-with-human-helping-hand-study-shows/
#News #Conservation #Environment #Forests #Rainforest #Ecosystem