“Tree equity”: US cities urged to focus planting in areas most at risk
Washington DC, USThomson Reuters Foundation US cities are increasingly recognising trees as critical infrastructure but still need help figuring out where to plant them, conservation advocates said Tuesday as they launched a tool to map where greenery is most needed. Beyond urban tree cover, officials also need to look at local data on income, race, […]
How do koalas drink? Not the way you might think
Washington DC, USReuters Scientists have solved a lingering mystery about koala behavior – how these tree-dwelling marsupials native to Australia consume enough water to live. A new study describes koala drinking behavior in the wild for the first time, finding that they lick water running down the smooth surface of tree trunks during rainfall – […]
India’s tree planting, conservation push sparks land conflicts
New Delhi, IndiaThomson Reuters Foundation A drive to plant trees and conserve areas for wildlife is triggering conflicts over land in India, with poor villagers and Indigenous people most at risk of losing their homes and livelihoods, researchers have warned. India is aiming to increase its forest area and green cover to a third of […]
MONEY TREES: US CITIES FIND NEW WAYS OF VALUING URBAN FORESTS
CAREY L BIRON, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the trend for seeing trees as a city utility…
Trees alone can’t win fight against soaring heat, cities warned
Abu Dhabi, UAEThomson Reuters Foundation Popular projects to plant more trees and expand green space in cities may not protect residents from soaring and often deadly heat unless the efforts target those most in need of relief and bring communities closer, researchers and policymakers said. As record numbers of people move into urban areas, cities […]
Tree planting extends an olive branch across the climate divide
New York CityThomson Reuters Foundation The world’s business and government leaders may have found a way to fight climate change without having to call global warming by its name or agree on what is causing it. Last week, the World Economic Forum – which dedicated its 2020 gathering in Davos, Switzerland, to climate change and […]
Azerbaijan plants 650,000 trees to celebrate poet – but green activists grumble
Tbilisi, GeorgiaThomson Reuters Foundation Oil-rich Azerbaijan planted more than half a million trees on Friday to celebrate a 14th century poet, an initiative the government said would help tackle climate change but some environmental activists called “a waste of money”. The Azeri ministry of ecology said 650,000 trees were being planted across the country to […]
Greener, longer life: More trees reduce premature deaths in cities
Tbilisi, GeorgiaThomson Reuters Foundation City dwellers tend to live longer if they are in leafy neighbourhoods, according to a study published on Wednesday that linked green areas to lower rates of premature death. Trees in cities are already credited with cooling and cleaning the air and absorbing planet-warming gases, now researchers at the Barcelona Institute […]
POSTCARDS: JOHANNESBURG SEEKS TO AVERT “ECOLOGICAL DISASTER” FROM BEETLE-INFESTED TREES
KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
Scientists urge climate protesters to save planet by planting trees
Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaThomson Reuters Foundation The best way to keep climate change in check is by replanting trees on destroyed forest areas the size of the United States, scientists said last week, as doing so would capture two-thirds of man-made planet-warming emissions. Tom Crowther, a professor at the Crowther Lab, a research group based at […]