India was a tree planting laboratory for 200 years – here are the results
Plantations of exotic trees from the mid-19th century onwards devastated Indian ecosystems.
Aug. 10, 2023 • ~8 min
Plantations of exotic trees from the mid-19th century onwards devastated Indian ecosystems.
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Only fragments of Britain’s “temperate rainforest” remain – here’s some tips to help you identify one when you come across it.
Time-lapse animations that once took days to create are now easy to build with publicly available satellite images and free online tools.
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Most of us have heard of the dangers of deforestation but there are other more subtle ways that human beings can endanger monkeys, apes and lemurs.
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