Planting more than 500 billion trees could remove around 25 percent of existing carbon from the atmosphere, a new study has found. What’s more: there’s enough space to do it. The study, published in Science Friday, set out to assess how much new forest the earth could support without encroaching on farmland or urban areas […]
Today is Earth Day, which means it is also the moment you have all been waiting for: The moment when EcoWatch announces the winner of our second-ever photo contest! The theme for this year’s Earth Day is “Protect Our Species,” so EcoWatch asked readers to submit their best photos of the creatures that inhabit this […]
Update: The window for photo submissions has ended. The winner will be announced this Monday, April 22. Earth Day is celebrated each year on April 22nd. The official theme of Earth Day 2019 is ‘Protect Our Species.’ In honor of Earth Day, EcoWatch has kicked off a second photo contest. Show us what ‘Protect Our […]
Update: The window for photo submissions has ended. The winner will be announced this Monday, April 22. EcoWatch is pleased to announce its second photo contest! Earth Day is happening on April 22nd, and this year’s theme is “Protect Our Species.” With that in mind, we want EcoWatchers to show us your photographs of creatures […]
By Marlene Cimons Neil Pederson’s introduction to tree rings came from a “sweet and kindly” college instructor, who nevertheless was “one of the most boring professors I’d ever experienced,” Pederson said. “I swore tree rings off then and there.” But they kept coming back to haunt him. As a future forest ecologist, he needed to […]
By Patrick Rogers In the U.S., we consume more than 15 billion pounds of tissue each year—more than 50 pounds per person. It’s taking a major toll on forests like the Canadian boreal. Few people give much thought to how their toilet paper is made. And to be fair, there’s nothing particularly engaging in the […]
The last thing on your mind in February is gardening. But this is prime time to prepare for a very important task: planting fruit trees. Most people buy their fruit trees the same way they buy all of their other plants: in pots. But savvy gardeners know better. Fruit trees are cheaper and grow best […]
By Clara Chaisson Dutch interactive artist Thijs Biersteker is something like a real-life Lorax—except instead of speaking for the trees, he equips them with the technology to speak for themselves. Trees are among our most diligent and prolific data loggers (no pun intended), recording a wealth of information about the world around them in the […]
By Marlene Cimons Plants are humanity’s greatest ally in the fight against climate change. Plants soak up carbon dioxide and turn it into leaves and branches. The more trees humans plant, the less heat-trapping carbon pollution in the air. Unfortunately, plants require a lot of water and land, so much that humans might need a […]
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