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Replanting logged forests with diverse mixtures of seedlings accelerates restoration, says study

Envirotec Magazine

The experiment was set up by the University of Oxford’s Professor Andy Hector and colleagues over twenty years ago as part of the SE Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP). This includes both the physical and environmental conditions that the species is adapted to, and how it interacts with other organisms.

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Extreme weather conditions in Pakistan due to climate change

The Environmental Blog

Pakistan is considered one of the disaster-prone countries in Asia. Millions of hectares of the country’s land experience an annual rainfall of less than 30 mm, and some hectares of land which is suitable for agriculture are subjected to wind and water erosion, waterlogging, loss of organic matter and salinity.

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The Northeast’s hemlock trees face extinction. A tiny fly could save them.

Grist

The Hemlock Initiative also employs Dietschler and organizes the release of the adelgid-eating flies. Hemlocks can sequester approximately 12 metric tons of carbon dioxide per two and a half acres, according to a 2002 study that compared the hemlock to other tree species. times more soil carbon than black birches of the same age.

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From golf to gardens: Houston’s new botanical garden opens

AGreenLiving

Houston’s Clark Condon designed the garden’s planting and soil, with installation by Landscape Art. First, the garden team analyzed how long-term golfing had impacted the soil. In 2019, gardeners worked on the drainage system and specially blended soils for the garden’s different areas.

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Above the canopy: The peatland rainforest towers aiming to transform climate science

Business Green

If you took a cubic-metre sample of the soil here, around 90 per cent of the content would be water, with the rest made up of partially decayed vegetation and organic matter that contain vast amounts of carbon. In fact, peatland contains up to 50 per cent carbon content, compared to the two per cent typically found in mineral soil.

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