Global team of scientists determine ‘fingerprint’ for how much heat, drought is too much for forests
A new study has compiled a global database of climate-induced forest die-off events, from 1970-2018, across 675 locations. After analyzing the climate conditions at each location during each event, researchers found a common ‘hotter-drought fingerprint’ for Earth’s forests, a term that describes the combination of higher temperatures and more frequent droughts for a lethal set […]
Preparing our forests for the future
Scotland’s forests are facing new threats from pests, diseases, and climate change. In this article, we will discuss what we are doing to prepare our forests for the future. If you do not know what the threat will look like in the future, it is difficult to prepare for health risks. But that is what […]
Traditional fire use is declining globally – here’s why that’s a problem
A controlled burn designed to prevent wildfires in Guyana. Kayla de Freitas, Author provided Greenhouse gas emissions continue to climb, and so you might expect more of Earth’s surface to be engulfed by fires each year. But satellite data shows that the reverse is true: the area of the world’s land burned by fires shrank […]
Any plans to dim the sun and cool the Earth must be led by those most affected by climate change
PX Media / shutterstock The countries of the “global north” are responsible for 92% of excess global emissions, according to a 2020 study in The Lancet Planetary Health. Yet it is the rest of the world – the “global south” – that disproportionately bears the brunt of climate change. Emergency measures to reflect more of […]