UA’s Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research Helps Decipher Earth’s “Archives”by Rachel MuenzThe Earth has had “libraries” for far longer than humans have been around
News600 Years of Tree Rings Reveal Climate Risks in Californiaby Cornell UniversityResearchers construct plausible daily weather records and streamflow scenarios
NewsThe Fens of Eastern England Once Held Vast Woodlands, Study Findsby University of CambridgeFindings help put the current anthropogenic climate change in a long-term context
NewsClearing Mangroves Makes ‘Muddification’ Worseby University of ExeterThe solution to the problem is more sustainable land use upstream, rather than mangrove removal
NewsRegrown Forests Are Helping to Protect the Remaining Old Forests in the Amazonby Bangor UniversityNew evidence of just how important secondary forests are in counteracting the effects of forest fragmentation
NewsStudy Shows Making Cities Greener Doesn’t Just Capture Carbon—It Reduces Itby KTH, Royal Institute of TechnologyCreating more agreeable environments for walking and bicycling helps capture carbon and can help reduce emissions
NewsSoils Forming on the Branches of Trees Are an Overlooked Forest Habitatby Imperial College LondonA study on ‘canopy soils’ shows they are important habitats and carbon stores that cannot easily be replaced
NewsBiodiversity Protects against Invasions of Non-native Tree Speciesby ETH ZurichNew study can help global conservation efforts and better our understanding of non-native tree distribution
NewsTropical Trees Use Social Distancing to Maintain Biodiversityby University of Texas at AustinUsing computer models, researchers found that tree species can be more negatively affected by their own kind
NewsTrees in Areas Prone to Hurricanes Have Strong Ability to Surviveby Clemson UniversityEven though the vast majority of trees studied were damaged during Hurricane Maria, only 10 percent were killed
NewsForest Growing Season in Eastern US Has Increased by a Monthby Ohio State UniversityWarming changed timing of budburst, coloration in past century