Why Do Leaves Change Color?
What is the chemistry that causes all those beautiful hues to appear in the fall. Jason Grabosky, a professor and program director of Urban Forestry in the School of...
07/10/2023
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Integrating local knowledge into policy is vital to sustainable livelihoods - CIFOR Forests News
Communities in southern Zambia rely on local knowledge to manage resources including land, forests and water. They are an example of why it’s essential to understand the role of...
06/30/2023
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Carbon offsets: A key tool for climate action, or a license to emit?
Carbon offsets: A key tool for climate action, or a license to emit? by Ian Morse on 4 November 2022 The carbon offset market has existed for 25 years, and experts say there are...
04/28/2023
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Pledges to plant trees are great news for the fight against climate change–but we don't have enough seeds
It is hard to look at a redwood and imagine that it was once a tiny seed–but it is a simple truth of nature that even our forest giants have to start small. This forest...
04/26/2023
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Agroforestry needs visibility in national budgets to track climate progress
Government of Rwanda should boost spending on trees on farms, study says Trees on farms are vital to human well-being, providing households with food, fuelwood, and rural...
04/07/2023
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Long road ahead to translate NBS into practice - CIFOR Forests News
Nature-based solutions (NBS) have quickly gained popularity as an umbrella term for actions that work in harmony with natural ecosystems to produce far-reaching benefits for...
12/22/2022
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“Existential threats,” harsh warnings and hope in U.N. Global Land Outlook - CIFOR Forests News
“At no other point in modern history has humanity faced such an array of familiar and unfamiliar risks and hazards interacting in a hyper-connected and rapidly changing world,”...
06/03/2022
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Bioenergy from degraded peatlands could help meet growing energy demand - International Tropical Peatlands Center
Across the globe, demand for energy is growing – and it’s tipped to increase by almost 50% over the coming three decades. But as we work to phase out fossil fuel use and...
06/02/2022
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What’s missing in land restoration: the ‘middle’
To achieve global and national restoration goals, involvement of groups at all levels of society is needed, argue researchers in a new policy brief. While evidence that...
05/30/2022
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First wildcat kittens born at Saving Wildcats conservation breeding for release centre
Wildcat kittens, which will likely be among the first of their species to be released into the wild in Britain, have been born in the Saving Wildcats conservation breeding for...
05/23/2022
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Vitally important pollinators should be looked after in commercial forests, too – new guidelines improve forest biodiversity - Forest.fi
The decline of pollinator populations is a problem shared by all humankind, and looking after them is also important in commercial forests. Forest.fi publishes a preview of new...
05/22/2022
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DRYAD: sustainable management of community forests in Cameroon
Lessons from DRYAD’s financing of community forestry enterprises are applicable globally. In June 2015, World Agroforestry (ICRAF) and partners began the roll-out of a...
05/18/2022
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