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India moves up to 9th position globally in forest area
Updated : 4 months, 3 weeks ago IST
India has achieved a significant milestone in global environmental conservation, moving up to the 9th position in terms of total forest area globally, as per the Global Forest Resources Assessment (GFRA) 2025, released by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Bali on Wednesday, a
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Climate change threatens global forest carbon sequestration: Study
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
A new analysis of U.S. Forest Service data shows that climate change is changing forests differently across the country. With increasing temperatures, intensifying droughts, wildfires, and disease outbreaks wreaking havoc on trees, researchers warn that forests in the American West are facin
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Study: Amazonian 'black earth' may give clues to global forest regeneratio
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Millions of Amerindians living in today's Amazonia altered the formerly poor soil through numerous mechanisms between 450 BCE and 950 CE. Soils were enhanced with charcoal from low-intensity fires used for cooking and burning trash, animal bones, broken pottery, compost, and manure through m
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Study estimates that close to 9,200 tree species of Earth, yet to be disco
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Michigan [US], February 4 (ANI): A new study involving more than 100 scientists from across the globe and the largest forest database yet has assembled shocking estimates of there being 73,000 tree species on the Earth, including about 9,200 species yet to be discovered.
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Water, not temperature, limits global forest growth as climate warms
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 20 (ANI): Lack of water is playing a major role in limiting global forest growth as the climate warms, a recent study has suggested.
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