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Mar. 9, 2021 —A quarter-century-old harvesting restriction intended to last one year has served as an obstacle to returning eastern Oregon national forests to the healthier, more fire-resilient conditions they ...
June 30, 2021 —A new mathematical model has been developed to uncover land clearing when satellite imagery is obstructed by ...
Sep. 18, 2020 —Global maps of places where people and forests coexist show that an estimated 1.6 billion people live within 5 kilometers of a forest. The assessment, based on data from 2000 and 2012, showed that of ...
Nov. 28, 2022 —By dispersing seeds, animals can rapidly reestablish plant diversity in degraded ...
Jan. 23, 2023 —Researchers report that elephants play a key role in creating forests which store more atmospheric carbon and maintaining the biodiversity of forests in Africa. If the already critically endangered ...
Jan. 27, 2021 —A new 3D analysis shows that wildland fires flare up in forests populated by similar-sized trees or checkerboarded by large clearings and slow down where trees are more ...
Sep. 15, 2020 —The forest canopy, the closed vegetation cover consisting of treetops, is rapidly declining according to new research. The team used satellite images, to create the first high-resolution map of ...
Jan. 6, 2023 —A U.S.-Brazilian study using time series satellite images from 2000 to 2021 reveals the vital role of Indigenous territories and protected areas for forest conservation in the Brazilian Amazon, as ...
Apr. 28, 2022 —Bird species that live in wooded areas are under stress from human-caused changes to forest composition, according to new research that quantifies the effects of forest 'degradation' on ...
June 9, 2022 —A new study characterizes the role of fire refugia -- the green islands of live trees that remain after forest fires -- in forest regeneration following large and severe fires in the High Cascade ...