🌱 Fast-growing trees are taking over the forests of the future and putting biodiversity, climate resilience under pressure

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-fast-trees-forests-future-biodiversity.html

#forests #tree #conservation #biodiversity #ecology #climatechange

"Planting Billions of Trees Turned Barren Desert into a Carbon Sink That Lowers CO2"

#Trees #Environment #Forests

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/chinas-tree-planting-turned-a-barren-desert-into-a-carbon-sink-to-help-lower-atmospheric-co2/

#Environment #Climate #Oregon #Politics #Logging #Felon47 #Forests

https://www.blm.gov/press-release/blm-launches-public-comment-western-oregon-timber-plan-advance-trump-administration

Live Event: The Hidden Power of #Forests: Connection and Cooperation from Roots to Canopy

March 26, 2026 • 10 am US Pacific

Free, recording w/donation

"Dr. Nalini Nadkarni, forest ecologist, and one of National Geographic’s ten Explorers at Large, and Dr. Teresa Ryan, a Tsimshian scientist, Indigenous knowledge practitioner, and fisheries/aquatic ecologist, will take us on a journey from root to treetop."

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-02-10/the-hidden-power-of-forests/

#forests #trees #resilience #nature #cooperation #connection

Just came out : #droughtstress and #barkbeetles caused in 2018-2020 a strong tree mortality and thus a widespread #ForestDisturbance across Central Europe. The authors observed post-disturbance regeneration in nearly 900 plots across 10 countries : the good news: recovery was robust. The bad news : 75% of the regenerating seedlings are projected to be **outside of their climatic niche** by the end of the century under even moderate #climatechange (RCP4.5)
This suggests to me that "leaving forests alone" is not the best way to adapt them to #ClimateChange. There is just not sufficient local #Biodiversity
https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70734
#Forests
#AcademicChatter
#PlantScience
#UMRSilva because some colleagues participated :-)

#News: 🧐🌳 LanzaTech is developing synthetic #palmoil from recycled carbon, cutting ties to #deforestation. This could fuel the #airline industry without killing #forests and #animals.🌴☠️🚫 #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social

https://www.spglobal.com/energy/en/news-research/latest-news/agriculture/012026-bio-naphtha-saf-economics-drive-interest-in-waste-carbon-palm-oil-substitute-as-feedstock-race-intensifies-lanzatech-ceo?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

It's almost the weekend, and you know what that means: #ForestFriday! Time to celebrate the outdoors and nature by posting your forest-related photos or artwork using the hashtag #ForestFriday. Scroll, enjoy, repost. #EastCoastKin #Hiking #Fungi #Forests #Nature #Photography #Art

This tree has sadly fallen over since I took this image, but, to think of how incredible this tree was when it was alive, before it was hollowed out by a fire. At its death, the tree was over 1.5m in diameter! That's thick!

#landscapephotography #photography #naturephotography #vancouver #lpw #forests #art #mosstodon #canada #ThickTrunkTuesday

#Tropical #forests generate #rainfall valued at billions of dollars annually for regional agriculture, with the Brazilian Amazon alone contributing roughly US$20 billion per year through #evapotranspiration
#Environmental #Ecology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/env02172601.html

Forests don’t just store carbon. They keep people alive, scientists say https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/forests-dont-just-store-carbon-they-keep-people-alive-scientists-say/

#environment #forest #forests #carbon

With glassy skin in vivid colours and large alien-like eyes, Malayan Forest #Geckos look striking 🦎😻 These #reptiles long for peace in the understory of #Malaysia's #forests. Help them survive and #BoycottPalmOil 🌴🧐⛔️#Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/05/malayan-forest-gecko-cyrtodactylus-pulchellus/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

Strict #legal protections are needed to protect #forests, #indigenous peoples and #endangered animals 📷📷📷 from #extinction. Reject the #ecocide! When you shop be #vegan #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives https://wp.me/pcFhgU-8U5

Forest Protection Equals Climate Protection

#Forests are critical for #climate protection and for safeguarding indigenous peoples, endangered animals and rare plants. However global #deforestation targets and environmental legislation is lax and falling short. Strong international law is needed to curb deforestation. Along with proactive support for #Indigenous land rights, #agroecology and decolonisation. Act now and help the climate, be #vegan #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife

Strict #legal protections are needed to protect #forests, #indigenous peoples and #endangered animals 🐒🦎🦬 from #extinction. Reject the #ecocide! When you shop be #vegan #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-8U5

Governments and law-makers must urgently act to protect #rainforests 🌳🌲 #animals 🐘🐯🦍 and #indigenous peoples from disappearing finds new #report. Help them survive and #BoycottGold4Yanomami #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect https://wp.me/pcFhgU-8U5

Written by Mary Gagen, Professor of Physical Geography, Swansea University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

The world is falling behind on commitments to protect and restore forests, according to the recent Forest Declaration Assessment. There is no serious pathway to fixing climate change while forest losses continue at current rates, because global climate targets, sustainable development goals and forest commitments depend on each other.

Around 1.6 billion people live close enough to forests to depend upon them for their livelihoods, and forests suck down about a third of our CO₂ emissions from fossil fuels.

The UN estimates that forests directly generate US$250 billion (£206 billion) in economic activity a year. Their broader, indirect, value might be as much as US$150 trillion (£12 trillion) per year – double the value of global stocks – largely due to their ability to store carbon. Despite this, subsidies still provide incentives for people to convert forests into agriculture.

Big Business: Failing Promises

There have been multiple global commitments to forests, with hundreds of governments and businesses signing up to pledges named after cities they were signed in: Bonn in 2011, New York in 2014, Glasgow in 2021. But these pledges have not been realised, and deforestation reduction targets are slipping each year.

Global forest loss in 2022 was 6.6 million hectares, an area about the size of Ireland. That’s 21% more than the amount that would keep us on track to meet the target of zero deforestation by 2030, agreed in Glasgow. The loss of tropical rainforest is even more pronounced: 33% over the target needed. Deforestation in 2022 marked a 4% step back on 2021 progress.

Why we are failing to protect forests

There isn’t one simple explanation for why forests are still disappearing. Factors include a lack of Indigenous Peoples rights to their territories, forest-harming financial and trade systems, and the physical effects of climate change and fire.

The lack of consistent and secure land tenure rights for Indigenous Peoples and local communities threatens forests and the people who depend upon them. Across the tropics, where forests are under their stewardship, the evidence is clear: deforestation and degradation are lower.

Subsidies that can lead to deforestation are worth between US$381 billion (£314 billion) and US$1 trillion (£825 billion) per year. These could include handing out public land to settlers, building roads or pipes to enable industrial-scale farming, keeping taxes on agricultural products artificially low, or subsidies on specific crops grown on formerly forested lands.

There are also illegal activities. By one recent estimate, 69% of the tropical forest cleared for agriculture between 2013 and 2019 violated national laws and regulations. The illegal timber trade is estimated to be worth US$150 billion per year globally.

There is simply not enough money going to support forests. Public finance for forests is less than 1% ”) of the amount invested in activities that are environmentally harmful or incentivise deforestation.

Around the globe, forests are also being harmed by climate change and shifting patterns of wildfires. Climate change is causing more fires, including in forests that do not usually burn, and producing hotter fires which cause long-term damage even in fire-adapted forests. The length and severity of droughts is increasing, inducing water stress which kills trees. A combination of climate-related stresses means that trees in the tropics, temperate and boreal forests, are experiencing dying younger and massive “die offs” are happening more often.

If the effects of fire and climate change continue post-Anthropocene forests are likely to be smaller, simpler in species, emptied of wildlife and restricted to steeper ground where agriculture is less favoured.

Computer simulations of the future climate, known as climate models, depict very different outcomes for forests depending on whether we limit global warming or not. If emissions are reigned in and we leave some cultivated land to nature, 350 million hectares of forest could return by 2100. That’s an area roughly the size of India. However, in a future where emissions remain high and land use doesn’t change, the models suggest a loss of a further 500 million hectares of forest by 2100.

How To Get Back On Track

The new Forest Pathways Report I worked on sets out an action plan for getting back on track. It asks global leaders and businesses to:

• Accelerate the recognition of Indigenous Peoples and local communities’ right to own and manage their lands, territories and resources.
• Provide more money, both public and private, to support sustainable forest economies.
• Reform the rules of global trade that harm forests, getting deforesting commodities out of global supply chains, and removing barriers to forest-friendly goods.
• Shift towards nature-based and bio economies.

At the next COP28 climate summit in Dubai, there is the promise of bilateral announcements between wealthy donor nations and forested nations in the tropics, as part of the Forest and Climate Leaders’ Partnership signed in Glasgow, two years ago. These packages could support a move towards sustainable forest management and deforestation-free supply chains around the world.

This would be a valuable success, but leadership is desperately needed on other issues such as environmentally harmful subsidies or illegal logging, the financial scale of which both dwarf the funding provided to protect forests.

Written by Mary Gagen, Professor of Physical Geography, Swansea University This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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Quercus rubra – Red Oak (1888–1913) by Romeyn Beck Hough, from The American Woods.

Source: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b7acace4-a9e2-454c-a774-ea4a16bd4d18

#wood #forests #woods #botany #trees #cross-sections #art #publicdomain

The world's largest #rainforest the #Amazon 🫁🌳🌿 is vanishing. Yet a bright spark of hope finds #deforestation in #Indigenous protected areas is 83% lower. They are the KEY to saving the #forests and animals! #BoycottGold4Yanomami #Boycott4Wildlife
https://wp.me/pcFhgU-8SM?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

"Officials at the U.S. Forest Service knew gear worn by wildland firefighters contained potentially dangerous 'forever chemicals' years before the agency publicly acknowledged the issue."

"PFAS, have been linked to negative health impacts, including certain cancers."
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Author: Abe Streep
Publication: ProPublica
February 10, 2026
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#USA #Forests #Labour
https://www.propublica.org/article/forest-service-forever-chemical-firefighter-pfas

Winterwald.

#silentsunday #kreisplön #panker #wald #intothewoods #forests #winter #Winterwunderland #winterwonderworld #schnee #snow

#Finnish Old Growth #Forests need your love and help! State owned #Metsähallitus is starting commercial loggings in valuable natural forests. #ValentinesDay #SiberianJay #StopDestruction www-greenpeace-org.translate.goog/finland/tied...

Hype for the Future 105B: National Forests of Texas

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/13/hype-for-the-future-105b-national-forests-of-texas/