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23 sty 2024 · Wild flowering plants are relying more on themselves to reproduce, which could further fuel global pollinator decline in a “vicious feedback cycle,” scientists say.
7 mar 2022 · The Amazon rainforest may be nearing a critical tipping point that could see the biologically rich and diverse ecosystem transformed into a grassy savannah.
21 mar 2024 · A ubiquitous, resilient and seemingly harmless plant is fueling an increase in large, fast-moving and destructive wildfires in the United States. Grass is as plentiful as sunshine, and under the...
Forests cover approximately 31 percent of the global land area and provide habitat for the vast majority of the terrestrial plant and animal species known to science. Forests and the biodiversity they contain continue to be under threat from farming and exploitation, much of it illegal.
13 lip 2021 · The first step in using trees to slow climate change: Protect the trees we have. By holding onto the big, old trees, more carbon will stay sequestered. Of the eight known species of Baobab trees ...
Since the end of the last ice age — 10,000 years ago — the world has lost one-third of its forests. 2 Two billion hectares of forest — an area twice the size of the United States — has been cleared to grow crops, raise livestock, and for use as fuelwood.
11 paź 2022 · Losing established forests through deforestation means losing the trees’ anchors in the soil — their roots — which are key to stopping erosion. Erosion can put surviving plants in greater danger of fire as the forest becomes drier and more open instead of moist and protected.
