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A new interactive map reveals how deforestation is driving dangerous local warming across the tropics — with implications for health, agriculture, and climate resilience. Tropical forests are often called the lungs of the Earth, but they’re also its air conditioners. When trees are cut down, the cooling benefits they provide – through shade and...
Research from Restoring Hardknott Forest and Wild Ingleborough has contributed to a new paper summarising the current knowledge of creating woodland through natural processes in Great Britain. The synthesis was part of the TreE_PlaNat project and combined the expertise of 31 practitioners and researchers to compile 15 case studies where woodland has been created...
Planting trees on a large scale in the UK, as part of pathways to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, could bring substantial changes to biological emissions from our woodlands, but the scale of change and the compounds emitted varies with tree species planted. New woodlands play a key role in proposed pathways to achieving net-zero...
Trees in Amazon forests have got 'fatter' with average size increasing by 3.2% every decade, consistent with a response to rising carbon dioxide levels, a new study suggests. The new research published in Nature Plants by a global team of tropical forest scientists shows that the average size of trees in Amazon forests has increased over recent...
Ingleborough National Nature Reserve (NNR) has become part of the King’s Series of National Nature Reserves and will be expanded to include 1186 hectares of land. Yorkshire’s iconic upland landscape will be secured for nature, boosting wildlife recovery and public access. Ingleborough National Nature Reserve (NNR) has habitats that are home to nationally significant wildlife populations...
Deforestation in tropical countries could contribute to increased deaths from heat exposure in nearby populations, new research has shown. Published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, the research was led by Dr Carly Reddington and Professor Dominick Spracklen, from the University of Leeds’ School of Earth and Environment. The study, which analysed areas across Central and South...
Tree planting and woodland creation is increasing to meet government targets across the UK, to improve woodland coverage as part of the process of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions and for the many other co-benefits woodlands bring. The Forestry Commission estimates that over 20,000 hectares of new woodland were planted in 2023/24, a rate that has not been reached for...
A peatland complex in the Congo Basin which is known to be a globally important carbon store is twice as old as previously thought, according to a new scientific study. An international team of researchers has shown that the tropical peatland complex, which is the world’s largest, began forming about 42,000 years ago, more than...
Scientists have used clues locked into tree rings to reveal major changes in the Amazon’s rainfall cycle over the last 40 years which show that wet seasons are getting wetter and dry seasons drier. Oxygen isotope signals in rings from two Amazon tree species allowed the international research team led by the University of Leeds...
Pupils from Millom School have been getting their hands dirty as part of a forestry restoration project in the Duddon Valley. They have been planting trees and wildflowers, setting up remote camera traps to observe birds and mammals, and working with local farmers during their six sessions with the Restoring Hardknott Forest Project. Restoring Hardknott...