Day: August 13, 2023

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‘Social Distancing’ of Trees Ensures Biodiversity in Tropical Forests, Finds Study

The saying goes that the Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. But based on a new study on a forest in Panama, that may be far from the truth for tropical trees that practice a kind of “social distancing” to ensure biodiversity. In the study published in the journal Science, researchers combined computational modelling with data […]

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Chinese Scientists Calculate 1 Billion-Tonne Carbon Dioxide Emissions Cost of Canadian Wildfires

Chinese scientists estimate that the recent Canadian wildfires caused 1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions by July 27, far exceeding Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. The area burned in Canada’s fire season this year is the largest on record, according to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC). It reported that by the end […]

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