Natural resource management is conflict management and vice versa
October 24, 2016
Natural resource management is conflict management.
Research news posts
Can’t see the water for the trees?
October 3, 2016
In the wake of the Forest-Water Nexus monitoring workshop that took place in Sweden last week, the need for an integrated approach to forest and water management has been highlighted once more in an article published today by Dr Dalton and colleagues.
Trees and their impact on water availability in drylands
August 18, 2016
If you have ever been to drylands such as to Burkina Faso you might have seen that forests there do not have the densest tree cover. Have you ever wondered if these modest forests could actually be good for something?
Managing Forests for Water and Climate Cooling
July 15, 2016
As shared by WeForest at COP21, new research reveals that forest processes are more important than previously thought, and can result in 5 short and long-term benefits for water availability and climate.
Ecological Rainfall Infrastructure: Investment in Trees for Sustainable Development
July 15, 2016
In many parts of the world local people are convinced that forests, trees and rainfall are related in more than one way: forests and trees not only depend on rainfall but help to generate it.
Funding forest landscape restoration using a business-centred approach: an NGO’s perspective
July 15, 2016
There is a growing realization that the private sector constitutes a promising funding mechanism for a wide community of players working to restore degraded forest landscapes.
Young forests have great potential to store carbon
July 12, 2016
Paper shows young, secondary-growth forests play an important role in climate change mitigation.
Forests reaching carbon saturation point
August 19, 2013
The ability of Europe’s aging forests to absorb carbon dioxide is heading towards saturation point, threatening one of the main defences against global warming, a new study shows.
Deforestation ban working in Costa Rica
August 8, 2013
Forest protection efforts in northern Costa Rica have likely slowed mature forest loss.
ASM Live 2013, Denver
May 21, 2013
Whether the microorganisms routinely inhabit the upper troposphere — perhaps living on carbon compounds also found there — or whether they were simply lofted there from the Earth’s surface isn’t yet known.