Planting trees is a vital strategy to combat both climate change and the biodiversity crisis. As forests grow, they sponge ...

Researchers from the IIASA Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program are involved in the recently launched EU-funded Trees4Adapt project. The project focuses on tree-based solutions for climate ...

The increasingly urgent climate crisis has led to a boom in commercial tree plantations in an attempt to offset excess carbon emissions. However, authors argue that these carbon-offset plantations ...

Lush landscape of the Amazon Rainforest in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador. Lush landscape of the Amazon Rainforest in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador.Getty Images As an ecologist, the most frequent ...

Biodiversity is declining. More than a million species around the world could go extinct by 2050. And man-made climate change means the problem is only getting worse. Those are a few of the key ...

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The cultivation of oil palm is here to stay. However, a five-year study indicates that creating islands of native trees within oil-palm monocultures increases biodiversity and ecosystem functioning ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. A new study of 5.6 million trees across 63 U.S. cities’ tree ...

For centuries, human activity has intentionally or unintentionally driven the spread of plant species to areas far outside their native habitat. On average, about 10 percent of non-native species ...

Ambitious plans by India, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines to restore tens of millions of hectares of degraded land by 2030 could be derailed by a lack of good-quality and genetically diverse ...