Courtesy of YES! Magazine
by Vandana Shiva
Today, at a time of multiple crises, we need to move away from thinking of nature as dead matter to valuing her biodiversity, clean water, and seeds. For this, nature herself will be the best teacher.
My ecological journey started in the forests of the...
Apr
24
Courtesy of the USDA Forest Service
Pacific Northwest Research Station
Evidence is increasing from multiple scientific fields that exposure to the natural environment can improve human health. In a new study by the U.S. Forest Service, the presence of trees was associated with human health.
For...
Jan
21
New Genetic Analyses Show that Some Common Amazon Tree Species are More than 8 Million Years Old.
Isolated Amazon rainforest tree in a pasture at sunset. Credit: Christopher Dick
The analysis also reveals that these surprisingly old species have endured past periods of significant climate warming....
Dec
18
Courtesy of The Australian National University
Ecosystems worldwide are in danger of losing large, old trees forever, without more research and policy changes to better protect them, warns a new study published in Science.
Isolated Paddock Tree
Lead author of the paper, Professor David Lindenmayer...
Dec
06
Courtesy of Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Inc.
TREES IMPROVE THE ENVIRONMENT
Air Quality/Pollution Reduction
Trees help to clean the air by “catching” airborne pollutants such as ozone, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxides, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and small particulates less than 10...
Oct
31
To Preserve Forest Health, the Best Management Decision May be to do Nothing
In 1990, this part of NSF's Harvard Forest LTER site was a jumble of downed trees. Credit: Marcheterre Fluet
In newscasts after intense wind and ice storms, damaged trees stand out: snapped limbs, uprooted trunks,...
Oct
17
Sadhana Forest Haiti project manager Nick Boyce discusses water conservation, reforestation, and soil-building techniques in a severely ecologically degraded area of Haiti.
Excerpt from the upcoming video “one day, everything will be free”, a feature length documentary about...
Oct
16
“Mother Trees” Use Fungal Communication Systems to Preserve Forests
Suzanne Simard, forest ecologist at the University of British Columbia, and her colleagues have made the major discovery that trees and plants really do communicate and interact with each other. She discovered an underground...
Oct
08
