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9:53pm, 5th April, 2019

The carbon offset market: Leveraging forest carbon's value in the Brazilian Amazon

(Dartmouth College) As companies seek and are required to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, the world's carbon markets are expanding. A government-run program in the Amazon rainforest in northwestern Brazil transforms forest carbon value in...

Prenatal forest fire exposure stunts children's growth

7:50pm, 19th February, 2019

Nature

Prenatal forest fire exposure stunts children's growth

(Duke University) Forest fires are more harmful than previously imagined, causing stunted growth in children who were exposed to smoke while in the womb, according to new research from Duke University and the National University of Singapore.

7:02pm, 15th February, 2019

Nature

Grazing Deer Alter Forest Acoustics

Deer populations have exploded in North American woodlands, changing forest ecology—and how sounds, like birdsong, travel through the trees. Christopher Intagliata reports.-- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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