They support countless species, yet humans clear millions of acres from natural forests every year, especially in the tropics, letting deforestation threaten some of Earth's most valuable ecosystems.

About 80 percent of the population are subsistence farmers, many of whom depend entirely on "natural capital" to support their way of life. Yet this way of life is time-limited: as the forest is ...

Xikombiso xa Muphati, who hails from Kurulen village outside Giyani, says that in Xitsonga culture, praise singers, also known as Vaphati, play a vital role in preserving history, honouring ...

On Monday, October 28, 2024, at the Main Kgotla of the Bangwaketse people, Giyani Metals hosted an equipment handover ceremony in collaboration with the Bangwaketse Paramount Chief, the Kanye District ...

Dig deep. Climb high. Understand, manage, sustain, protect, and restore natural resources systems. The College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science at Michigan Technological University brings ...

These small but fertile oases — which number around 35,000 and are dotted across the country — are some of the last remaining scraps of the tall, lush natural forests that once covered ...

These traits are developed through a broad base of classes in the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, communication, and quantitative and qualitative problem-solving skills. The SRM ...

Second, it must be geared at reducing the severity of unnatural forest fires and reintroducing fire as a natural component of the ecosystem. Third, forests should be put on a trajectory toward ...

Short articles that focus on some of the key challenges, issues or developments in natural products research. They can be "opinion" style articles, which give the author's perspective on a particular ...

THREATS: Forest elephants are threatened by historical and current rampant poaching, trade pressures, habitat conversion due to the expansion of natural resource extraction and logging, and civil ...

"Those natural patches were the input data for this novel study," he says, "the first to predict where future forest regrowth will occur, given observed past regrowth." The study, co-led by ...