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Trees & Seas Event Adds New Sponsor and Location as Launch Approaches

Trees & Seas Event Adds New Sponsor and Location as Launch Approaches

The first-ever Trees & Seas event is one month away, and momentum continues to build for this unique celebration of the connection between forest and ocean conservation. The event, a collaboration between lifestyle brand ÜÑÜ and Plastic Oceans International for which EcoWatch is serving as Global Media Partner, has gained both a new sponsor and […]

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    Monarch Sequoias Can Live 3,000 Years, But Earth Lost 10% of Them All in 2020

    Monarch Sequoias Can Live 3,000 Years, But Earth Lost 10% of Them All in 2020

    Scientists have known last year’s Castle Fire was probably the most destructive for California’s famously fire-resilient sequoias in at least 700 years, but a draft National Park Service report obtained by the Visalia Times-Delta puts a quantitative measurement on that fire’s climate-fueled toll. Between 7,500 and 10,000 monarch sequoias — about 10% to 14% of […]

    Can Tiny Forests Breathe Fresh Air Into Our Cities?

    Can Tiny Forests Breathe Fresh Air Into Our Cities?

    By Selma Franssen In 2014 eco-entrepreneur Shubhendu Sharma gave a TED Talk about the value of the mini-woodland ecosystems he was planting across India. He described how they grow 10 times faster, are 30 times denser, and 100 times more biodiverse than a conventional forest. His tiny forests were inspired by Japanese ecologist Akira Miyawaki’s […]

    Arbor Day Should Be About Growing Trees, Not Just Planting Them

    Arbor Day Should Be About Growing Trees, Not Just Planting Them

    By Karen D. Holl and Pedro Brancalion For 149 years, Americans have marked Arbor Day on the last Friday in April by planting trees. Now business leaders, politicians, YouTubers and celebrities are calling for the planting of millions, billions or even trillions of trees to slow climate change. As ecologists who study forest restoration, we […]