A new study involving more than 100 scientists from across the globe and the largest forest database yet assembled estimates that there are about 73,000 tree species on Earth, including about 9,200 species yet to be discovered. The global estimate is about 14% higher than the current number of known tree species. Most of the […]
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An Ecologist’s New Book Gets At The Root Of Trees’ Social Lives by Cori Vanchieri
In ‘Finding the Mother Tree,’ Suzanne Simard recounts discovering forests’ hidden networks. Opening Suzanne Simard’s new book, Finding the Mother Tree, I expected to learn about the old growth forests of the Pacific Northwest. I had an inkling that Simard, a forest ecologist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, would walk through her […]
Top 6 Reasons To Support Regenerative Agriculture by Organic Consumers Association (3:39)
Top 6 Reasons To Support Regenerative Agriculture by Organic Consumers Association (3:39) (To view full screen, also with many links, click the link below.) https://www.bitchute.com/video/f1428A6D6txY
Economic Benefits Of Protecting Nature Now Outweigh Those Of Exploiting It, Global Data Reveal by University of Cambridge
The economic benefits of conserving or restoring natural sites “outweigh” the profit potential of converting them for intensive human use, according to the largest-ever study comparing the value of protecting nature at particular locations with that of exploiting it. The findings, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, come just weeks after a landmark report by […]
Over 80% Of Atlantic Rainforest Remnants Have Been Impacted By Human Activity by Karina Toledo
Atlantic Rainforest remnants in Brazil are strung along its long coastline. The biome once covered 15% of Brazil, totaling 1,315,460 km². Only 20% of the original area is now left. The fragments are of varying sizes and have different characteristics. The IB-USP group set out to show how the loss of late-successional species correlated with […]
The Lost Forests Of New England – Eastern Old Growth by New England Forests (55:47)
The Lost Forests Of New England – Eastern Old Growth by New England Forests (55:47) (To view full screen click the link below.) https://www.bitchute.com/video/SdgpYgXlkp9D