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Forest ecology

Australia Mountain ash sowing seeds

Regrowing Australia’s forests may require human intervention

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After years of repeated bushfires, some of Australia’s forests can no longer grow back on their own, so humans are giving them a helping hand by carefully collecting and distributing their seeds.

White Mountains — Pines

Tree species are leap-frogging up mountains in reaction to climate change

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Vines use climate change to catch a ride on the trees

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Climbing to the Canopy

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The Healing Powers of Chainsaws

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Up in the Treetops

One of the least explored environments on earth is the canopy of rainforests high above the forest floor among the branches of tall trees is a living web of thousands of plants and animals. It is home for hundreds of birds and reptile, tens of thousands of insects and countless numbers of microbes. Recently, scientists […]

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New Temporate Canopy Research

Reporter Tom Verde visits the first permanent temperate forest walkway in the United States, in Williamstown, Massachusetts. While researchers from temperate countries are rushing to study the diminishing tropical forest canopy, the biologist who built the walkway is one of the few studying the canopies in their own backyards.

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