Around the world, people plan to plant more than 1 trillion trees this decade in an ambitious effort to slow climate change and reduce biodiversity loss. But if the past is prolonged, many of those ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The Global Biodiversity Standard (TGBS) is a certification scheme for forest restoration projects that show positive outcomes for biodiversity.

Establishing forests can capture carbon and boost biodiversity — but some biomes are a better bet than others, a recent study finds. Forest restoration has emerged as a top nature-based solution to ...

Farmers plant or preserve riparian buffers for various reasons, such as improving water quality, controlling erosion, or maintaining hunting habitat. Now, a new study from the University of Illinois ...

Burnt trees are seen after illegal fires were lit by farmers in Manaquiri, Amazonas state, on September 6, 2023. From September 2, 2023 to September 6, 2023, 2,500 forest fires in Amazon state alone ...

Researchers from the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program are involved in the recently launched EU-funded Trees4Adapt project. The project focuses on tree-based solutions for climate ...

A recent biodiversity meeting acknowledged the serious problem of deforestation while a new report on global environmental threats to trees offered a startling estimate. At a noisy press conference in ...

The increasingly urgent climate crisis has led to a boom in commercial tree plantations in an attempt to offset excess carbon emissions. However, authors argue that these carbon-offset plantations ...

Researchers combined human and ecological factors to analyze the global scale of non-native tree species invasions. Human activity in hotspots of global trade, such as maritime ports, is linked to an ...

Forest ecosystems harbour a multitude of structural features, among which tree microhabitats play a pivotal role in sustaining biodiversity. Tree microhabitats are discrete features on living or dead ...

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City may soon prohibit the cutting, removal, and earthballing of native and endemic trees in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A long-running experiment is testing tree mixes to develop the healthiest forests. However, many tree-planting commitments have a ...