Sustainable Christmas trees: an ecologist's buying guide

Here’s what to look out for.

Paul Caplat, Senior Lecturer in Global Change Ecology, Queen's University Belfast • conversation
Dec. 8, 2021 ~6 min

Why the fate of our planet's environment depends on the state of its soil

If we want to reduce carbon emissions and preserve planetary ecosystems, we need to protect our soils.

Duncan Cameron, Professor of Plant and Soil Biology, University of Sheffield • conversation
Nov. 3, 2021 ~7 min


What would happen to the climate if we reforested the entire tropics?

Even this radical scenario wouldn't be as effective as it may first seem.

Chris Brierley, Associate Professor of Geography, UCL • conversation
May 27, 2021 ~6 min

Peat bogs: restoring them could slow climate change – and revive a forgotten world

The UK's marshes, bogs and fens provided the bare necessities of daily life for many centuries.

Ian D. Rotherham, Professor of Environmental Geography and Reader in Tourism and Environmental Change, Sheffield Hallam University • conversation
Jan. 11, 2021 ~8 min

How green is your Christmas tree?

It depends on where and how it's grown, and how it is disposed of or recycled.

Ian D. Rotherham, Professor of Environmental Geography and Reader in Tourism and Environmental Change, Sheffield Hallam University • conversation
Nov. 27, 2020 ~5 min

Climate change is making autumn leaves change colour earlier – here's why

Warmer temperatures cannot increase the amount of carbon deciduous trees absorb in each growing season, a new study suggests.

Philip James, Professor of Ecology, University of Salford • conversation
Nov. 26, 2020 ~6 min

Are young trees or old forests more important for slowing climate change?

The age of a forest can influence how effectively it offsets our emissions.

Tom Pugh, Reader in Biosphere-Atmosphere Exchange, University of Birmingham • conversation
July 30, 2020 ~7 min

An effective climate change solution may lie in rocks beneath our feet

To avoid global warming on a catastrophic scale, nations need to reduce emissions and find ways to pull carbon from the air. One promising solution: spreading rock dust on farm fields.

Benjamin Z. Houlton, Professor of Global Environmental Studies, Chancellor's Fellow and Director, John Muir Institute of the Environment, University of California, Davis • conversation
July 16, 2020 ~8 min


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