Study shines new light on young tree seedlings
Credit: UGA The first few weeks of a tree seedling's life can be the most precarious. As it pushes thin ...
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NASA’s Terra Satellite shows smoky pall over most of California
Credit: NASA Worldview More than 650 wildfires are blazing in California after unprecedented lightning strikes, storms, and a heatwave that ...
NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite highlights California wildfires at night
Credit: Credits: NOAA/NASA/William Straka U of W-Madison/CIMSS/SSEC Striking images of the California wildfires are seen in these nighttime satellite images ...
Invasive shrubs in Northeast forests grow leaves earlier and keep them longer
Citizen scientists confirm that invasives seem to have advantage over native shrubs, contributing to their proliferation, impactsCredit: Erynn Maynard-Bean, Penn ...
Native trees thrive in teak plantations and may protect the Panama Canal
Credit: Jorge Alemán, STRI Native to India, teak is the go-to species for reforestation in Central America. But teak often ...
Researchers assemble first comprehensive list of Panama’s trees with geographic ranges
Innovative method quantitatively assesses conservation risk with limited field dataCredit: © The Morton Arboretum Lisle, Ill. (August 13) -- Central ...
Restoration helps forests recover faster
Credit: Michael O'Brien / SEARRP The rainforests of Southeast Asia are among the fastest declining tropical ecosystems worldwide. Researchers from ...
Forest geneticist receives $810,000 grant to study disease resistance in sugar pines
Amanda De La Torre is studying the genome of sugar pines to find out what makes some trees resistant to ...
Researchers explore pollen fertilization mechanisms
A study showing how pollen tubes grow into flowers to reach the ovule paves the way for the improvement of ...
NASA’s Aqua Satellite shows extent of Apple Fire’s burn scar
Credit: NASA Worldview On Aug. 9, 2020 NASA's Aqua satellite imaged the Apple Fire near Big Bear Lake in California ...
New global study shows ‘best of the last’ tropical forests urgently need protection
According to a paper released today in Nature Ecology and Evolution, only 6.5 of the world's pristine tropical forests--critical to ...
Plant size and habitat traits influence cycad susceptibility to invasive species
Credit: University of Guam When humans bring a non-native herbivore to an isolated island, the native trees do not possess ...
A 40-year journey leads to a new truffle species
Credit: Joyce Eberhart CORVALLIS, Ore. - As a first-year graduate student studying truffle ecology at Oregon State University, Dan Luoma ...
NASA satellites show two views of California’s Apple Fire
Credit: NASA/NOAA NASA's satellites were working overtime as they snapped pictures of the large Apple Fire in Banning Canyon near ...
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