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5,510 results for: Forests

  1. Climate

    Warming is chasing cloud forests steadily uphill

    Cloud forests are biodiversity hot spots and crucial water sources. But climate change and deforestation are shrinking their range, new data show.

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  2. Environment

    Fires in the Amazon forest may melt sea ice in Antarctica

    Satellite data reveal a link between the amount of black carbon in the atmosphere and rates of Antarctic sea ice loss in recent years.

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  3. Plants

    Trees ‘remember’ times of water abundance and scarcity

    Spruce trees that experienced long-term droughts were more resistant to future ones, while pines acclimatized to wet periods were more vulnerable.

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  4. Climate

    Buying carbon credits to fight climate change? Here’s what to know

    Carbon credits sold on the voluntary market are under scrutiny for not offsetting greenhouse gas emissions as claimed.

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  5. Paleontology

    Sloths once came in a dizzying array of sizes. Here’s why

    A new fossil and DNA analysis traces how dozens of sloth species responded to climate shifts and humans. Just two small tree-dwelling sloths remain today.

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  6. Ecosystems

    Extinct moa ate purple trufflelike fungi, fossil bird droppings reveal

    DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

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  7. Archaeology

    Humans moved into African rainforests at least 150,000 years ago

    This oldest known evidence of people living in tropical forests supports an idea that human evolution occurred across Africa.

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  8. Megadroughts are on the rise worldwide

    One of the most extreme megadroughts has helped fuel wildfires in Los Angeles County and elsewhere in California.

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  9. Climate

    Some trees are coping with extreme heat surprisingly well

    Rising temperatures could reduce trees' ability to photosynthesize. Scientists are trying to figure out just how close we are to that point.

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  10. Environment

    An idea to save Mexico’s oyamel forests could help monarch butterflies too

    Climate change is putting monarch butterflies’ overwintering forests in Mexico at risk. Could planting new forests solve that problem?

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  11. Climate

    Unearthed ice may be the Arctic’s oldest buried glacier remnant

    Thanks to climate change, thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic has revealed the buried remnant of a glacier that’s 770,000 years old.

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  12. Archaeology

    Precolonial farmers thrived in one of North America’s coldest places

    Ancestral Menominee people in what’s now Michigan’s Upper Peninsula grew maize and other crops on large tracts of land despite harsh conditions.

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