The Future of Forests
Human communities have benefitted immensely from trees, but tree communities (i.e., forests) haven’t always fared so well in the bargain. What can we do differently to ensure a forested future?
The Hidden Power of Forests
The Hidden Power of Forests: Connection and Cooperation from Roots to Canopy
Learn what forests can teach us about community resilience with National Geographic Explorer at Large, Nalini Nadkarni, and Tsimshian scientist Dr. Teresa Ryan.
Afro-Descendant Communities Offer a Living Blueprint for Amazon Conservation
Lands managed by Afro-descendant peoples in the Amazon experience dramatically lower deforestation and house some of the planet’s richest ecosystems—showing how centuries-old stewardship can guide global conservation.
Do Forests Make It Rain?
If the theory of the biotic pump is correct—and the forests play an essential role in the water cycle—this gives urgent importance to saving our old growth forests and restoring those which have been demolished or degraded.
Finding Our Way Home Part III: Finding Community
For me, the mountain on which I live, the animals and plants, the climate, the river and underground spring… actually the land and all it encompasses… this is also my community.
Who Does Minnesota’s White Earth State Forest Belong To?
The coming years will tell how these communities might find continuity between a fractured past and what could become a hopeful future.
The cooling, cleansing power of canopies – urban tree planting takes root
From the London borough of Hackney and Barcelona in Spain, to Freetown in Sierra Leone, increasing the number of trees in cities has been shown to be an important, low-cost, and rapid way to cut pollution, improve health and well-being, and make cities less vulnerable to extreme weather.
Mini-Forest Revolution: Excerpt
As the hyper-local landscape transformations prove themselves over time, though, perhaps the Miyawaki Method will become a centerpiece of Paris’s ostensibly biodiversity-sensitive landscaping strategy.
The Charter of the Forest inspires our future
Unlike the Magna Carta, pertaining to the rights of barons, the Charter of the Forest addressed the rights of common people; it restricted the amount of land that the king could claim for private use and restored common rights to common natural resources.
There is Unrest in the Urban Forest
The truth is that high urban density and abundant housing are entirely compatible with a lush tree canopy.
Cloud forests: narrow bands of biodiversity filled with mist, fog and mystery
Cloud forests are born of very specific geographic and climatic features: they usually form partway up mountains, when moisture-laden air currents from surrounding lowlands and bodies of water are forced upward and then cool and condense as they rise, creating persistent fog or cloud cover in a particular area.
Why the hidden world of fungi is essential to life on Earth
We are unthinkable without fungi, yet seldom do we think about them. It is an ignorance we can’t afford to sustain.
