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Prescribed Burning to Prevent Wildfires is not Used Frequently Enough, UCI Researchers Suggest

Prescribed burning of ground-level shrubs, branches and leaves is a time-tested tool to help prevent wildland fires from getting out of control, but a team led by researchers at the University of California, Irvine suggests that the practice isn't used frequently enough.

18 May 2022

Climate Change Responsible for Increased Risks of Wildfire, Drought, and Tree Deaths

On a general note, planting a tree is the best thing that can be done for the well-being of the environment. In the end, trees tend to take in carbon dioxide, compensating for a few of the emissions that add up to climate change.

13 May 2022

Study Evaluates the Impact of Large-Scale Tree Restoration on Water Fluxes

Across the globe, how would afforestation and restoration of huge areas impact water fluxes? A new study headed by the researcher of Wageningen University, Anne Hoek van Dijke with contributions from Martin Herold, GFZ, has fascinating answers.

12 May 2022

Soil Microbes Use Different Biochemical Pathways to Process Nutrients, Respire, and Grow

Much of what scientists think about soil metabolism may be wrong. New evidence from Northern Arizona University suggests that microbes in different soils use different biochemical pathways to process nutrients, respire and grow.

11 May 2022

Weather Radar Networks Can Help Minimize Wind Energy Impacts on Nocturnally Migrating Birds

The development of wind energy is accelerating around the world in an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and slow climate change.

5 May 2022

Urbanized Knowledge Syndrome may be Detrimental to Natural Ecosystems, Study Says

A new study by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and collaborators highlights a sharp contrast between urban and suburban ways of thinking about coastal ecosystems.

5 May 2022

New Report Evaluates Global Progress on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation

A major scientific assessment on REDD+ is published today, evaluating the world's progress towards goals to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.

5 May 2022

New Curtin Research Resurrects ‘Lost’ Coral Species

With about one-third of the world’s corals currently under threat of extinction due to climate change, Curtin researchers have made the encouraging discovery of a ‘lost’ species of coral that had been hidden for more than 50 years.

5 May 2022

Save Our Seas Foundation Joins Shark Conservation Fund to Save Sharks and Secure Healthy Oceans

The Save Our Seas Foundation (SOSF) has joined the Shark Conservation Fund (SCF) as one of its members. Dr James Lea, the SOSF’s chief executive officer, has joined the advisory board and says of the partnership, ‘I am delighted that we are joining the Shark Conservation Fund.

5 May 2022

Tree Mortality in Tropical Regions Calls Into Question Global Pledges to End Deforestation by 2030

According to new data, the world’s tropical regions dropped 11.1 million hectares of forest cover in 2021, casting doubt on global goals to cease deforestation by 2030.

3 May 2022

Ecology News

Prescribed Burning to Prevent Wildfires is not Used Frequently Enough, UCI Researchers Suggest

Climate Change Responsible for Increased Risks of Wildfire, Drought, and Tree Deaths

Study Evaluates the Impact of Large-Scale Tree Restoration on Water Fluxes

Soil Microbes Use Different Biochemical Pathways to Process Nutrients, Respire, and Grow

Weather Radar Networks Can Help Minimize Wind Energy Impacts on Nocturnally Migrating Birds

Urbanized Knowledge Syndrome may be Detrimental to Natural Ecosystems, Study Says

New Report Evaluates Global Progress on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation

New Curtin Research Resurrects ‘Lost’ Coral Species

Save Our Seas Foundation Joins Shark Conservation Fund to Save Sharks and Secure Healthy Oceans

Tree Mortality in Tropical Regions Calls Into Question Global Pledges to End Deforestation by 2030

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