A Greener Life

JULY 1, 2021

The City of Gold Coast is undertaking one of Australia’s largest ever beachfront rainforest restoration projects. If you’ve ever taken in the natural beauty of the Gold Coast’s glorious beaches or strolled along the city’s golden coastline, chances are you’ve unknowingly appreciated littoral rainforest.

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Cool Green Science

JANUARY 14, 2024

A group of villages in Papua New Guinea decided to protect their damaged rainforests from future clearcuts. The post Communities Unite to Save Papua New Guinea’s Forests from Logging appeared first on Cool Green Science. A photographer captured that work in action.

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Cool Green Science

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Fossil pollen reveals that the iconic tree family of Borneo's rainforests — the dipterocarps — evolved in Africa. The post Fossil Pollen Reveals the African Origins of Asia’s Tropical Forests appeared first on Cool Green Science.

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Inside Climate News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

‘Despite decades of warnings, we are still heading in the wrong direction’ By Bob Berwyn Research released this week raises new questions about how much more Earth may warm, or cool, if and when human carbon dioxide emissions zero out.

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Frontiers

APRIL 5, 2022

The first-ever research conducted by a team from the US pinpointed the local, regional and global non-CO2 benefits of specific forest zones worldwide to find that the entire world gains the most benefits from the band of tropical rainforests spanning Latin America, central Africa and Southeast Asia. Article link: [link].

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Ocean Conservancy

AUGUST 18, 2023

There’s something nice about exploring the coast, and whenever you get hot you can just pop into the ocean waves to cool down! In the Sargasso Sea, Sargassum provides a rich environment for wildlife that has been called a floating rainforest. No, I’m not writing a dating profile here. I really do love strolling for miles on the sand.

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Washington Nature

AUGUST 4, 2023

In his first eight months at TNC, Justin has begun a number of projects in the Clearwater Forest and a section of the Hoh Rainforest. I’m cool with that.” The beauty of it being resilient is it can also recover.” Some of his methods include thinning acres of thick understory brush with man-power and saws. Read More Like This

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