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Scientific American
August 2008
Keren Blankfeld Schultz |
Wildfires May Improve Forests' Ability to Sequester Carbon When saving trees means less carbon storage.   |
Smithsonian
December 2006
Marian Smith Holmes |
Interview: Margaret Lowman Bugs in trees and kids in labs get their due in the new book, It's a Jungle Up There, by pioneering forest ecologist "Canopy Meg." |
Smithsonian
August 2006
Michael Tennesen |
Uphill Battle As the climate warms in the cloud forests of the Andes, plants and animals must climb to higher, cooler elevations or die. |
Geotimes
October 2005
Megan Sever |
Carbon's Complicated River Ride Researchers recently found that carbon moves from the atmosphere, through trees, soil and water, and back into the atmosphere in fewer than five years, indicating that the landscape is not providing as much long-term storage of carbon dioxide as hoped. |
Geotimes
February 2005
Megan Sever |
Bugging Out with Warmer Weather If Earth continues to warm, especially in northern latitudes, insect outbreaks are more likely to occur, and potentially harm forests and affect the planet's carbon cycle. |
Geotimes
August 2003
Greg Peterson |
Hubbard Brook: Making Watershed Links The wollastonite addition at Hubbard Brook is the latest chapter in a rich history of large scale manipulations aimed at understanding how human disturbances impact forests. |
Geotimes
February 2006
Naomi Lubick |
Trees Confound Global Warming The potential canceling-out effects of trees' low reflectivity for carbon sequestration raise questions as to whether tree planters should get carbon credits in North America, as outlined in the Kyoto Protocol. |
Smithsonian
March 2004
Lawrence M. Small |
From the Secretary - World View Panama offers an ideal vantage point for scientists to see the big picture of life on earth. The forests and coral reefs of the tropics are the world's most biologically diverse ecosystems. |
Wired
May 19, 2008
Matt Power |
Old-Growth Forests Can Actually Contribute to Global Warming Forests actually give up more carbon from decomposing wood than they lock down in new growth. |
Geotimes
September 2003
Greg Peterson |
Weathering climate change Policy-makers looking to curb future increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide, could turn to a simple plan: Plant trees. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2009
T. Edward Nickens |
New Zipline Tour Helps Protect Trees (With Video!) The New River Gorge TreeTops Canopy Tour opened in May. Operated by Class VI -- Mountain River, the tour uses five sky bridges and two short hikes to link 10 twin-cable ziplines that offer more than a mile of high-wire flying. |
Adventure
February 2004
James Balog |
The Quest for the Green Giant A story of the author taking pictures of the largest, oldest, strongest trees in the U.S. |
Fast Company
November 2000
Ian Wylie |
'We Recycle Your Air.' Social entrepreneur Dan Morrell is targetting a massive and complex environmental problem: global warming. But his solution is deceptively simple: The way to save the planet is one tree at a time... |
Outside
June 2003
Douglas Gantenbein |
We're Toast Last summer, U.S. wildfires cost $1.6 billion to stop and claimed the lives of 23 firefighters. The expense and sacrifice did nothing to solve the problems of overgrown forests, misguided policies, and misspent resources. We need to get serious about rethinking the role of flame in the woods. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2012
Peter Fairley |
Europe Looks to North America's Forests to Meet Renewable Energy Goals Emissions reductions, however, may prove smaller and slower than once expected |
Geotimes
February 2005
Sara Pratt |
Cicadas Speed Forest Growth The trillions of decomposing insects on forest floors across the eastern U.S. serve to fertilize the forests where they died. |
Geotimes
August 2005
Megan Sever |
Marshes Record Climate Changes Research coming out of a marsh near the mouth of the Hudson is now providing insight into how the ecosystem has evolved, based on a core that dates back 1,350 years, and could help planners better manage the system in the future. |
Financial Advisor
September 2011
Ellie Winninghoff |
Go Hug A Forest Impact investors can foster change while earning handsome returns in one of the only asset classes where there's real growth. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2008
Sandra Upson |
Loser: Algae Bloom Climate-Change Scheme Doomed Planktos's ploy to combat global warming by sequestering carbon in the oceans holds no water. |
This Old House
Arianne Cohen |
Professional Tree Removal Crashing through your roof is not the only hazard dead and diseased trees pose to your home -- they also steal water and light from the rest of your yard. |
BusinessWeek
July 15, 2010
Alexandra Wolfe |
Next Life: Scouring the Forest for the Trees Private equity player Harald Orneberg sold his fund, then headed for Brazil to form The Forest Co. and grow (money on) trees. |
Outside
July 2007
Amanda Griscom Little |
Brain Storm It's not nice to fool Mother Nature, but as the mercury rises, a crop of weather-changing scientists want to try. |
Wired
May 19, 2008
Alex Steffen |
Counterpoint: Dangers of Focusing Solely on Climate Change To have any hope of staving off collapse, we need to move forward with measures that address many interrelated problems and not just focus on carbon. |
Reason
November 2008 |
Letters Letters to the Editor: Carbon: tax, trade, or deregulate?... |
National Gardening
Lance Walheim |
How to Buy and Plant Trees Improve the health and longevity of your trees... |
IDB America
July 2005
Roger Hamilton |
Cutting a forest to save it A pioneering experiment in community forestry management in Peten, Guatemala. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2006
Paul McFedries |
Changing Climate, Changing Language That humans are having a negative effect on the world's climate is almost universally regarded as a fact in scientific circles, but global warming stubbornly remains in the realm of fantasy in some political and business circles. |
BusinessWeek
November 19, 2009
Ben Elgin |
A Big Loophole in Cap and Trade How companies may be rewarded under the cap-and-trade system for green projects they already had in the works. |
National Defense
May 2008
Grace V. Jean |
Water, Climate Change: Recipe for Trouble? We still lack a comprehensive understanding of how the world's water possibly could be affected by the phenomenon of climate change. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
EZ Pick Fruit Trees These naturally dwarf trees grow only 6 to 10 feet tall, are easy to care for, and are perfect for small families. Available in apple, peach, pear, and other varieties. |
TIME Asia
June 20, 2011
Brendan Brady |
Battle of the Jungle Sorng Rukavorn is one of 13 community forests in Cambodia's Oddar Meanchey province -- spread over a total of 68,000 hectares -- being registered with climate-change groups as a bank of carbon credits. |
Fast Company
November 2008 |
Updates Texan forest carbon credits... Dirty Jobs reality TV show... Innovation in wine packaging... |
Mother Jones
June 2000
Ted Williams |
False Forests What's green, full of trees, and worse than a clearcut? Vast pine farms, which are rapidly replacing the woods with a new kind of Southern plantation. |
Chemistry World
February 2007
Helen Pilcher |
Living on Credits Carbon rationing isn't just a personal fancy. A growing band of UK politicians and scientists are touting it as the fairest and most practical way to cut emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane. |
The Family Room
Monica Resinger |
Potted Christmas Trees - Is It Worth It? Each holiday season, I think about getting a live, potted Christmas tree. I keep thinking that it would sure save a lot of money because we should be able to use it as a Christmas tree for a few years -- as long as I can keep it alive... |
Science News
May 12, 2007
Julie J. Rehmeyer |
A Grove of Evolutionary Trees "Trees of life" show patterns of evolutionary descent, and they fit together mathematically to form an abstract forest. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2010
Paul McFedries |
Technically Speaking: Hacking the Planet There's plenty of controversy swirling around the idea of climate intervention -- and no shortage of new words |
BusinessWeek
August 26, 2010
Stuart Biggs |
New Zealand Farmers Harvest Carbon Credits Growing trees can be more profitable than raising sheep. |
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Real Travel Adventures
May 2007
Linda Ballou |
Finding the Real Gold in Costa Rica Costa Rica can bring new discoveries or enjoyed by sitting back and breathing in the landscape. |
High on Adventure
August 2002
Habeeb Salloum |
Walking the Canopy of the World's Oldest Rainforest The 130 million-year-old virgin Taman Negara forest spreads across the formidable Titiwangsa Mountain Range in northeastern Malaysia. |
National Gardening
Kim Haworth |
Fire-Safe Landscaping Homes are tucked into hillside forests and perched atop grassy knolls to take advantage of spectacular views. During fire season, this is an invitation to disaster. But there are several measures you can take to reduce the immediate risk of fire danger around your own home. |
National Gardening
Lee Reich |
Pruning Fruit Trees How to get young trees off to a good start and keep mature trees productive... |
Outside
August 2005
Peter Stark |
The Tree Slayer What does a naive environmentalist discover when he buys his own forest? He's got to log it to save it. |
IDB America
January 2006
Roger Hamilton |
Could Environmentalists Learn to Love This Road? An asphalt strip through Brazil's Amazon rainforest is intended to anchor an economy based on a newer, gentler way to use the rain forest. |
Wired
February 2007
Michael Behar |
Reservoir Logs A submersible robot called the Sawfish can harvest healthy timber from long-forgotten underwater forests. Clear-cutting never looked so green. |
This Old House
Lynn Ocone |
Putting Down Roots How to add a tree to your yard---the right way. |
