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Mediterranean pine needle loss analyzed for more efficient forest management

A study combines climate, field and remote sensing data to identify growth patterns associated with defoliation processes and mortality in artificial pine forests

Isabel16/03/2026

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Strategic tree planting could help Canada become carbon neutral by mid-century

A new study finds that Canada could remove at least five times its annual carbon emissions with strategic planting of more than six million hectares of trees along the northern edge of the boreal forest.

Isabel03/03/2026

Image: Ptilotus senarius grows in such a remote part of Australia it's a miracle it was rediscovered at all. Credit: Aaron Bean/inaturalist.org/observations/288434421

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No longer extinct, just critically endangered

Citizen science platforms including iNaturalist are leading to major new discoveries and are becoming crucial to the work of scientists.

Isabel24/02/2026

Image: Field Museum scientist Matt von Konrat examining dried moss collected in 2013 in a botanical survey as part of a homicide investigation. Credit: courtesy of Field Museum.

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Solving mysteries with moss

New paper examines the history of using moss as evidence in forensic cases.

Isabel19/02/2026

Image credit: The research team has subjected the leaves near the fruit to the technique of near and mid-infrared spectroscopy. Credit: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Agriculture News Plant Science

A new technique predicts the ripeness of fruit by analysing leaves

A new method analyses the biochemical changes in the leaves closest to the fruit without damaging it.

Isabel16/01/2026