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• Forests (ecology)

  How do trees die?

  10 April, by STEVENS-RUMANN Camille

  Even in death, a tree helps others live.
  Trees can die suddenly or quite slowly.
  Fire, flood or wind can cause a quick death by severely damaging a tree’s ability to transport water and nutrients up and down its trunk.
  Sometimes a serious insect attack or disease can kill a tree. This kind of (...)

• Forests (ecology)

  Lessons from the rush to reforest

  5 May 2021, by BRAXTON LITTLE Jane

  Tree-growing projects must match the right species with the right location, and put local communities at the front and centre of operations.
  When an international team of scientists announced in 2019 the potential of restoring forests to slow climate change, the world grabbed shovels. (...)

• Forests (ecology)

  Lessons (United States) - Here’s how forests rebounded from Yellowstone’s epic 1988 fires – and why that could be harder in the future

  28 April 2018, by TURNER Monica G.

  Monica G. Turner (University of Wisconsin-Madison) looks back at the huge fire that hit Yellowstone Park in the United States in 1988. She tells us what happened after 500 000 hectares went up in smoke, but asks: what lies ahead?.
  This summer marks the 30^th anniversary of the 1988 Yellowstone (...)