More support needed for pollination services in agriculture
The global decline of pollinators threatens the reproductive success of 90 per cent of all wild plants globally and the…
Forestry
Forestry is the science and art of managing, conserving, and utilizing forests and their resources to meet the needs of society while ensuring environmental sustainability. Forests cover about 31% of the Earth’s land area and play a critical role in maintaining ecological balance, supporting biodiversity, and combating climate change.
Rapid warming in the Arctic means more rain, more greenhouse gas release and even more warming
Today, more snow than rain falls in the Arctic, but this is expected to reverse by the end of the…
City-living bees benefit most from specific types of urban ‘greening’
Converting vacant urban lots into greenspaces can reduce blight and improve neighborhoods, and new research shows that certain types of…
California’s Dixie Fire shows impact of legacy effects, prescribed burns
The 2021 Dixie Fire burned over nearly 1 million acres in California and cost $637 million to suppress, making it…
Woodland and hedgerow creation can play crucial role in action to reverse declines in pollinators
The largest survey of pollinator abundance in Wales has found that woodland and hedgerow creation can play a crucial role…
How herbivore activity around water affects plant communities
Plants need water to grow. So if there’s water, shouldn’t there be more plants? New research out of UC Santa…
Hibernating bears’ ability to regulate insulin narrowed down to eight proteins
Feeding honey to hibernating bears helped Washington State University researchers find the potential genetic keys to the bears’ insulin control,…
Where is the water during a drought?
In low precipitation periods — where and how is the limited available water distributed and what possibilities are there for…
Utilizing satellite data and artificial intelligence to determine land-use intensity of meadows and pastures
Extensively used grassland is host to a high degree of biodiversity, and performs an important climate protection function as a…
Wildfires devastate the land they burn, and they are also warming the planet
The 2021 wildfire season broke records globally, leaving land charred from California to Siberia. The risk of fire is growing,…