huhti 11, 2023 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development
When you walk through a forest, you are surrounded by carbon. Every branch and every leaf, every inch of trunk and every tendril of unseen root contains carbon pulled from the atmosphere through photosynthesis. And as long as it stays stored away inside that forest,...
helmi 23, 2023 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development
The world’s forests are losing their ability to absorb carbon due to increasingly ‘unstable’ conditions caused by humans, a landmark study has found. Dramatic changes to forests, and other habitats that store carbon in plants and soils, are becoming more likely in...
elo 5, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development
Over the past 60 years, the global forest area has declined by 81.7 million hectares, a loss that contributed to the more than 60% decline in global forest area per capita. This loss threatens the future of biodiversity and impacts the lives of 1.6 billion people...
touko 13, 2022 | Science and Research News of Sustainable Development
Forested lands across the U.S. provide 83 million people with at least half of their water, according to a broad new study of surface water sources for more than 5,000 public water systems. 125 million people, or about 38% of the country’s population, receive at least...