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A native forest is an area with naturally growing species. In a native forest, all flora, including the trees, shrubs, and groundcovers are natural to the area.
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JUL 31, 2025Earth & The Environment
How does biodiversity loss impact tropical forests’ carbon absorption? This is what a recent study published in th ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAY 16, 2025Earth & The Environment
What consequences could the Amazon rainforest face as climate change continues to worse worldwide? This is what a recent ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 27, 2025Earth & The Environment
How can microbes in the Amazon help mitigate the global effects of climate change? This is what a recent study published ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScAUG 12, 2024Plants & Animals
How can older trees help combat climate change? This is what a recent study published in Nature Climate Change hopes to ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 25, 2024Earth & The Environment
Can wildfires be predicted in advance to allow for safeguards that can prevent their spread? This is what a recent study ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 25, 2024Earth & The Environment
In the ongoing fight against climate change, is it better to plant trees or allow nature to do it for us? This is what a ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScFEB 27, 2024Earth & The Environment
Do the impacts of deforestation go beyond the environment? What about human health, specifically the health of children? ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScDEC 05, 2023Earth & The Environment
How do forests cool themselves during the summer? This is what a recent study published in Agricultural and Forest Meteo ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 18, 2023Plants & Animals
Fire is everywhere, from stoves and heaters to grills, fun-smelling candles, fireplaces, and portable pocket lighters. H ...Written By: Mandy WoodsOCT 31, 2022Plants & Animals
In honor of Halloween, from venomous bites to bright red faces to full-moon dances, here are the six weirdest monkeysWritten By: Brittany Kenyon-FlattAUG 24, 2022Plants & Animals
Extinction rates have accelerated around the globe. Changes in climate and habitat loss, in particular, are driving more ...Written By: Ryan VingumAUG 14, 2022Earth & The Environment
In a recent study published in Nature, a team of researchers from the University of Minnesota (U-M) conducted a five-yea ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScFEB 13, 2022Genetics & Genomics
Zebrafish are a great research model. They develop quickly and in their early stages, they remain transparent. The littl ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 02, 2022Plants & Animals
Save the Redwoods League, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving redwood forests, has returned 215 acres of C ...Written By: Ryan VingumDEC 27, 2021Earth & The Environment
Floods this weekend caused destruction in Brazil. Two dams failed after weeks of rain in the Brazilian state of Bahia, o ...Written By: Samantha LottJUN 24, 2021Cell & Molecular Biology
It seems like Australia is home to some of the world's deadliest animals, like taipan snakes and box jellyfish. Even the ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 22, 2021Plants & Animals
While there was a brutal winter storm in the Texas region only a few weeks ago, climate change is causing winters to war ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 27, 2020Plants & Animals
There is a huge variety of mosquitoes in the world - around 3,500 species - and only a few seek humans for their blood m ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 16, 2020Earth & The Environment
Research published in the journal Conservation Letters highlights the importance of considering land-use history when ev ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanNOV 29, 2019Earth & The Environment
Caribou are one of the mystic animals of the Northern hemisphere, large ungulates known for their branched antlers and t ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanNOV 11, 2019Earth & The Environment
We know that invasive species cause myriad problems in ecosystems including predator-prey relations, pest management, ha ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanOCT 29, 2019Earth & The Environment
Is Napier grass the win-win that East Africa is looking for? The native grass species has the potential to boost nutriti ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanAUG 19, 2019Earth & The Environment
A new study published recently in PNAS documents the epidemic of non-native pests that are threatening US forests. Accor ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 17, 2019Plants & Animals
Ecosystems are particularly delicate, and any changes to the careful balances that mother nature had in mind for a speci ...Written By: Anthony Bouchard
JUL 31, 2025
Earth & The Environment
How does biodiversity loss impact tropical forests’ carbon absorption? This is what a recent study published in th
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 16, 2025
Earth & The Environment
What consequences could the Amazon rainforest face as climate change continues to worse worldwide? This is what a recent
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 27, 2025
Earth & The Environment
How can microbes in the Amazon help mitigate the global effects of climate change? This is what a recent study published
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
AUG 12, 2024
Plants & Animals
How can older trees help combat climate change? This is what a recent study published in Nature Climate Change hopes to
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 25, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Can wildfires be predicted in advance to allow for safeguards that can prevent their spread? This is what a recent study
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 25, 2024
Earth & The Environment
In the ongoing fight against climate change, is it better to plant trees or allow nature to do it for us? This is what a
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
FEB 27, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Do the impacts of deforestation go beyond the environment? What about human health, specifically the health of children?
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
DEC 05, 2023
Earth & The Environment
How do forests cool themselves during the summer? This is what a recent study published in Agricultural and Forest Meteo
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JAN 18, 2023
Plants & Animals
Fire is everywhere, from stoves and heaters to grills, fun-smelling candles, fireplaces, and portable pocket lighters. H
...
Written By:
Mandy Woods
OCT 31, 2022
Plants & Animals
In honor of Halloween, from venomous bites to bright red faces to full-moon dances, here are the six weirdest monkeys
Written By:
Brittany Kenyon-Flatt
AUG 24, 2022
Plants & Animals
Extinction rates have accelerated around the globe. Changes in climate and habitat loss, in particular, are driving more
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
AUG 14, 2022
Earth & The Environment
In a recent study published in Nature, a team of researchers from the University of Minnesota (U-M) conducted a five-yea
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
FEB 13, 2022
Genetics & Genomics
Zebrafish are a great research model. They develop quickly and in their early stages, they remain transparent. The littl
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 02, 2022
Plants & Animals
Save the Redwoods League, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving redwood forests, has returned 215 acres of C
...
Written By:
Ryan Vingum
DEC 27, 2021
Earth & The Environment
Floods this weekend caused destruction in Brazil. Two dams failed after weeks of rain in the Brazilian state of Bahia, o
...
Written By:
Samantha Lott
JUN 24, 2021
Cell & Molecular Biology
It seems like Australia is home to some of the world's deadliest animals, like taipan snakes and box jellyfish. Even the
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 22, 2021
Plants & Animals
While there was a brutal winter storm in the Texas region only a few weeks ago, climate change is causing winters to war
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 27, 2020
Plants & Animals
There is a huge variety of mosquitoes in the world - around 3,500 species - and only a few seek humans for their blood m
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 16, 2020
Earth & The Environment
Research published in the journal Conservation Letters highlights the importance of considering land-use history when ev
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 29, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Caribou are one of the mystic animals of the Northern hemisphere, large ungulates known for their branched antlers and t
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
NOV 11, 2019
Earth & The Environment
We know that invasive species cause myriad problems in ecosystems including predator-prey relations, pest management, ha
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
OCT 29, 2019
Earth & The Environment
Is Napier grass the win-win that East Africa is looking for? The native grass species has the potential to boost nutriti
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
AUG 19, 2019
Earth & The Environment
A new study published recently in PNAS documents the epidemic of non-native pests that are threatening US forests. Accor
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 17, 2019
Plants & Animals
Ecosystems are particularly delicate, and any changes to the careful balances that mother nature had in mind for a speci
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard