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 ...

For centuries, human activity has intentionally or unintentionally driven the spread of plant species to areas far outside their native habitat. On average, about 10% of non-native species worldwide ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Reforestation is gaining global momentum as a climate solution, but its success depends on how and where it’s done. A new study mapped locations where tree planting and forest regrowth are most likely ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For centuries, human activity has intentionally or unintentionally driven the spread of plant species to areas far outside their native habitat. On average, about 10 percent of non-native species ...