Indian village where for farmers money really does grow on trees

Three years after planting, the farmer can mortgage the trees for a 10-year interest-free loan from the council which only has to be paid back if any of the trees are cut down

Seed production, recruitment affect how trees are migrating due to climate change - The Source - Washington University in St. Louis

A new study co-authored by biologist Jonathan Myers in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis provides key insights into how and why tree populations migrate in response to climate change. The research was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Grapevine Grafting Process - How to grafting grape tree? grafted grape vine modern agri techniques -

Hi everyone in this video you can see grapevine grafting methods - Grapevine Grafting Process - How to grafting grape tree? grafted grape vine modern agriculture techniques - How do you graft a grapev...

Across the Boreal Forest, Scientists Are Tracking Warming’s Toll

From Minnesota to the Northwest Territories, researchers are studying dramatic changes in the vast northern forests: thawing permafrost, drowned trees, methane releases, increased wildfires, and the slow transformation of these forests from carbon sinks to carbon emitters.

Soils in old-growth treetops can store more carbon than soils under our feet

AGU press contact: Rebecca Dzombak, +1 (202) 777-7492, [email protected] (UTC-4 hours) Contact information for the researchers: Peyton Smith, Texas A&M University, [email protected] (UTC-6 hours) Hannah Connuck, Franklin and Marshall College, [email protected] (UTC-4 hours) NEW ORLEANS—New research reveals a previously underappreciated way old-growth forests have been recycling and storing carbon: treetop soils. Branches in forest canopies can hold caches of soil that may store substantially more carbon than soils on the ground beneath them, and scientists are just beginning to understand how much carbon canopy soils — which exist on every continent except Antarctica — could store. The new research on these unique soils, being presented on Wednesday, 15 December at 5:00 p.m. CST at AGU Fall Meeting 2021, marks the first attempt to quantify carbon capture by canopy soils. The work highlights another way old-growth forests are rich, complex ecosystems that cannot be quickly replaced by replanting forests. Tree branches collect fallen tree leaves and other organic material over hundreds of years, like the ground does. On top of the branches, the plant litter decomposes as it accumulates, forming a carbon-rich layer that can be several inches thick. The researchers climbed up into the rainforest canopy in Costa Rica, instruments in hand, to find out just how much carbon canopy soils can contain. Active carbon, a short-term storage pool of organic carbon, was three times higher in canopy soil compared to soils underfoot, the researchers found. “We knew these would be really organic-rich soils, but we didn’t expect the extremely large amount of carbon compared to mineral soils,” said Hannah Connuck, an undergraduate researcher at Franklin and Marshall College who will be presenting the study results.   The researchers are still calculating the total concentration of organic carbon at their research site, but other research has found canopy soils to have up to 10 times higher concentrations of or...

Growing Christmas trees is difficult but 'beautiful' labor by these Oregon workers

Last year, Oregon Christmas tree workers harvested 3.44 million trees. Meet some of the workers responsible for your tree.

Completed Redwood Genome Sequence Reveals Genes for Climate Adaptation and Offers Insights into Genetic Basis for Survival - Save the Redwoods League

The coast redwood is the world’s tallest tree, and its genome is among the most complex sequenced. Nearly nine times larger than the human genome, it is also the second largest genome sequenced.

Holding agriculture and logging at bay in the Congo peatlands - South Africa Today

The peatlands of the Congo Basin are perhaps the most intact in the tropics, but threats from logging, agriculture and extractive industries could cause their rapid degradation, scientists say. In 2021, the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) announced that it was planning to end a moratorium on the issuance of logging concessions […]

Reporters - The 'agricultural mafia' taking over Brazil's Amazon rainforest

Encouraged by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and local authorities who want to see the development of agribusiness, an "agricultural mafia" is taking over the Amazon rainforest. In the Brazilian…