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Production of Butter from Shea Trees in West Africa Pushed Back 1,000 Years

Mar. 21, 2016 — Anthropologists have pushed back the history of harvesting shea trees in West Africa by more than 1,000 years earlier than previously believed. Oil from the trees' nuts is ... read more

Drought Alters Recovery of Rocky Mountain Forests After Fire

Mar. 21, 2016 — A changing climate is altering the ability of Rocky Mountain forests to recover from wildfire, according to a new study. When warm, dry conditions lead to drought in the ... read more

Scientists Using Crowdfunding to Sequence the Genome of Joshua Tree

Mar. 14, 2016 — Joshua trees are the iconic species of the Mojave Desert, the hottest and driest desert region of North America. Now scientists report that modern genetic tools could save ... read more

Plants' Ability to Adapt Could Change Conventional Wisdom on Climate Change

Mar. 17, 2016 — Plants speed up their respiratory metabolism as temperatures rise, leading to a long-held concern that as climate warms the elevated carbon release from a ramped-up metabolism could flip global ... read more

Forests Reveal Lingering Effects of Native Cultures

Mar. 16, 2016 — New research suggests that Gleditsia triacanthos (honey locust) distribution in the Southern Appalachian region is more strongly patterned by Native American settlements ... read more

Dissimilar Forests Are Vital for Delivery of Ecosystem Services

Mar. 14, 2016 — A team of ecologists aimed to find out what the effects of forest tree species diversity are on ecosystem services. These services, which include timber production, carbon storage, and forest ... read more

Flooding Alleviated by Targeted Tree Planting and River Restoration, Scientists Discover

Mar. 10, 2016 — Strategic planting of trees on floodplains could reduce the height of flooding in towns downstream by up to 20 percent, according to a study by an ... read more

Oldest Pine Fossils Reveal Fiery Past

Mar. 10, 2016 — The oldest fossils of the familiar pine tree that dominates Northern Hemisphere forests today has been found by researchers. The 140-million-year-old fossils (dating from the Cretaceous ‘Age of the ... read more

Eastern US Forests More Vulnerable to Drought Than Before 1800s

Mar. 8, 2016 — Over thousands of years, most forests in the eastern United States evolved with frequent fire, which promoted tree species and ecosystems that were both fire and drought ... read more

Treeing It Up: Research Team Documents Design of Wood-Based Polymers

Mar. 7, 2016 — Scientists recently demonstrated the design of softwood lignin-based polymers with potential application as alternatives to petroleum-based polystyrene. These softwood materials can be obtained from ... read more

Indonesian Forest Fires Threaten Endangered Orangutans

Forest Loss, El Nino And Fires All Put Orangutans At Risk

Elderly Panda Eats Bamboo Bread at San Diego Zoo

Edible Art: Professor Creates Tree of 40 Fruit

Researchers Rediscover Aquilaria Rostrata Thought to Have Become Extinct

Mar. 9, 2016 — Aquilaria rostrata forest tree species said to have become extinct after the last time it was found about 100 years ago, has been rediscovered by ... read more

Radical Change Projected for Northern Forests Is Rooted in Past, Current Management

Mar. 8, 2016 — Future Forests of the Northern United States is an analysis of future forest change in the 20 states stretching from Maine to Minnesota and from Missouri to Maryland. The report provides critical ... read more

Few Studies Focus on Threatened Mammalian Species That Are 'Ugly'

Mar. 7, 2016 — Many Australian mammalian species of conservation significance have attracted little research effort, little recognition, and little funding, new research shows. The overlooked non-charismatic ... read more

Investigators Trace Emergence and Spread of Virulent Salmonella Strain

Mar. 4, 2016 — Since it first emerged more than half a century ago, a particular strain of multidrug-resistant Salmonella has spread all over the world. Now researchers have figured out why this strain, Salmonella ... read more

Many Small to Medium Green Spaces in a City Provide Beneficial Cooling Effects

Mar. 1, 2016 — The valuable cooling effects of large urban green spaces has been established; now scientists have studied small and medium sized parks in London to determine the optimum size, distribution and ... read more

Ozone Does Not Necessarily Promote Decline of Natural Ecosystems

Feb. 25, 2016 — Species-diverse unmanaged forests may be less susceptible to the damaging effects of ground-level ozone -- toxic to many species of vegetation and to humans -- than previously ... read more

Ancient Chimpanzee ‘Adam’ Lived Over One Million Years Ago, Research Reveals

Feb. 25, 2016 — Researchers compare human male - and female- line genealogies with those of our closest animal ... read more

Researchers Grow Cyberforests to Predict Climate Change

Feb. 24, 2016 — The first computer simulation that grows realistic forests down to the branches, leaves and roots of individual trees has been developed by scientists. They are using the simulation to determine how ... read more

New Interactive Guide Tells the Story of Forest Products in the South

Feb. 24, 2016 — A new storymap allows users to interactively chart the ebb and flow of forest products across the southern states -- and visually tells the story of the decline of the forest products industry in the ... read more

Temperature Changes Wreak Ecological Havoc in Deforested Areas, Study Finds

Feb. 23, 2016 — The newly-exposed edges of deforested areas are highly susceptible to drastic temperature changes, leading to hotter, drier and more variable conditions for the forest that remains, according to new ... read more

Fungi Are at the Root of Tropical Forest Diversity, or Lack Thereof, Study Finds

Feb. 22, 2016 — The types of beneficial fungi that associate with tree roots can alter the fate of a patch of tropical forest, boosting plant diversity or, conversely, giving one tree species a distinct advantage ... read more

Nearly All US Forests Threatened by Drought, Climate Change

Feb. 22, 2016 — Forests across the United States are feeling the heat from increasing drought and climate change, according to a study by scientists from 14 research institutions. While the effects have been most ... read more

How Climate Change May Be Impacting the World's Tropical Forests

Feb. 22, 2016 — New research suggests that multi-year droughts will significantly alter the structure, composition, and dynamics of second-growth tropical forests, which have re-grown after cessation of agricultural ... read more

How Humans Impacted the Everglades

Feb. 15, 2016 — Excavations show the role early humans played in forming the tree islands that dot the river of ... read more

Sex With the Other Species: Tree Frogs With Foreign Sex Chromosomes Are Less Fit

Feb. 15, 2016 — During the last glaciation, a huge ice shield reached up to the region of today’s Berlin. By the time it started to melt about 20,000 years ago, it enabled a gradual re-colonization of the northern ... read more

Kill the Rabbit

Feb. 16, 2016 — Snowshoe hares arrived on tiny Hay Island, at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, in 1959, traveling by boat from Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada, with Wesley Ingalls and his nephew, Junior. The ... read more

Half of the Amazonian Tree Species Are Endangered

Feb. 10, 2016 — One in two tree species in the Amazon could be endangered. Experts have revealed that, according to the predicted deforestation scenarios, 36% to 57% of Amazonian species are at risk of disappearing, ... read more

The Return of the Flatworm

Feb. 4, 2016 — Where does the acoel flatworm belong in the tree of life? Biologists have discussed this question for the last 20 years. Now new research suggests that researchers have found the ... read more

Four New Deep-Sea Worm Species Discovered

Feb. 3, 2016 — Four newly discovered species living near deep-sea cold seeps, hydrothermal vents, and whale carcasses off the coasts of California and Mexico are described in a new article. The new discoveries have ... read more

Logging Helps Black Rats Invade Rainforests

Feb. 1, 2016 — Logging can encourage black rats to invade tropical rainforests by creating habitats they prefer, giving them the chance to displace native ... read more

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