Forests

In Retreat

World’s Forest Carbon Sink Shrank to Lowest in 20+ Years, from Fires, Tree Loss 0725.rtf

Tropical Forests Destroyed at Fastest Recorded Rate Yet in 2024 - 0525.rtf

An example from US Forest Service of projected US range loss - for sugar maple - with high emissions.

1 of MANY species, from http://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/atlas/tree/.

Habitat in 2100, but actual distribution will lag, as trees are long-lived.

2021-2026 Articles

Amazon Forest Is Surprisingly Resilient, but Tipping Point Looms 0826.rtf

A Blind Spot in Climate Models - Slower Tree Growth in a Warming World 0826.rtf

Fossils Show Huge Carbon Emissions Harm Forests, Not ‘Green the Planet’ 0826.rtf - In the PETM, very hot 55 million years ago, when CO2 levels skyrocketed, forests that formerly covered the majority of Earth's land changed to forests covering substantially less than half. More CO2, but more heat; heat won.

El Niño May Peak at the Worst Time for Amazon Basin. That Should Worry Us. 0826.rtf

Getting Warmer - Slower Forest Growth Means Less Carbon Storage 0626.rtfCanada's Forests Are Shifting from a Recovery-Driven Carbon Sink to a Disturbance-Driven Carbon Source 0626.rtfDeforestation-Induced Drying Lowers Amazon Climate Threshold 0526.rtfHow Global Deforestation Declined 36% in 2025 - 0426.rtfGermany’s CO2-Sink Forests Are Dying. Can a New Way of Planting Save Them? 0126.rtf - Plant a mixture of deciduous species, rather than a monoculture of coniferous ones. Then one pest (e.g., pine bark beetle) will not wipe out all the trees and will have to travel farther to find the next tree of the species vulnerable to it.Africa’s Forests Transformed from Carbon Sink to Carbon Source 1125.rtfIndonesians Blame Sumatra’s Rapid Forest Loss for Severity of Deadly Floods 1225.rtfObserved Shifts in Regional Climate Linked to Amazon Deforestation 1125.rtfAmazon Rainforest Nearing ‘Point of No Return' 1125.rtf2021 Heat Dome Scorched 1,000+ Sq Miles in Oregon, Washington Forests 1125.rtfThe World Has a Decade to Save Biggest Tropical Carbon Sink, the Congo Basin 1125.rtf‘Dismal’ Health of World’s Forests Is Threat to Humanity 1025.rtfMore Deforestation Leads to Drier Dry Season in Amazon Basin 0925.rtfCutting Down the Amazon Forest Will Bring Extreme Rain, Wind and Heat 0925.rtfForest Fires Are Getting Worse 0825.rtfWarming from Tropical Deforestation Linked to 28,000 Excess Deaths per Year 0825.rtfWhy 5 Million Years of Lethal Heat Followed End-Permian ‘Great Dying’ 0725.rtfWe Are Perilously Close to Point of No Return on Amazon Rainforest’s Future 0625.rtfUSAID’s Demise Threatens Cookstoves Health and Climate Solution in Africa 0525.rtfDomino Effect - Melting Greenland Ice Could Trigger Amazon Rainforest Collapse 0325.rtfMato Grosso Law Overturns Soy Moratorium That Curbed Amazon Deforestation 1124.rtfThe World’s Carbon Sinks Are on Fire 1024.rtfDeforestation ‘Roaring Back’ 1024.rtf - summed around the world. Indonesia accelreated its deforestation a lot. But Brazil cut its deforestion.Amazon Rainforest Shrinks, as Parts Turn into Savanna and Dry Forest - 0924.rtfAs Earth Gets Hotter, Could Helping Trees Migrate North Protect Them? 0824.rtfMethane Emissions Are Pushing the Amazon toward Environmental Catastrophe 0824.rtfOver 1:2 of Kew Botanical Garden Tree Species Risk Death from Climate Crisis 0724.rtfTree-Killing Beetles Wreak Havoc, Threaten to End Great Northern Forests 0624.rtfA Collapse of the Amazon Could Be Coming 0224.rtfCan Forests Be More Profitable than Beef? 0524.rtf - a question for the Amazon regionAre Rainforests Doomed? Not Necessarily. 0424.rtfClick for more

Amazon Rainforest, after 65 Million Years of Climate Changes, Faces Collapse 0224.rtf‘Biodiversity Catastrophe’ - How Earth Could Look in 2050, unless We Act Now 1123.rtfAmazon Deforestation Linked to West Antarctic Melt and Less Snowfall in Tibet 1023.rtfLocal Temperatures Reach Tipping Point where Plants Will No Longer Produce Building Block for Life on Earth 0823.rtfRising Temperatures Are Wreaking Havoc Year-Round 0823.rtf - Bark beetles are wreaking havoc in US forests, as their larva surive not-as-cold winter temperatures, now in large numbers as far as New Jersey.Bark Beetles Are Eating Germany’s Harz Forest. Climate Change Makes It Worse. 0823.rtfDeforestation in Brazil's Amazon Falls in 1st Month under Lula 0223.rtfWhy California’s Trees Are Dying by the Millions 0223.rtfWhy Western US Wildfires Destroyed 246% More Homes & Buildings This Decade 0223.rtfDrought, Plague and Fire - What One Colorado Forest Is Up Against 0223.rtfIn a Warming World, California’s Trees Keep Dying 0123.rtfHow Seriously Climate Change Is Threatening Madagascar’s Famous Forests 0123.rtfHow the Amazon Rainforest Dies 1122.rtf - If somewhere between 20 and 25% of the forest were lost, models suggested, much of the Amazon would perish. About 18% of the rainforest is now gone, and the evidence increasingly supports the warnings. Whether or not the tipping point has arrived — and some scientists think it has — the Amazon is beginning to collapse. More than 3/4 of the rainforest, research indicates, is showing signs of lost resilience. In fire-scorched areas of the Rio Negro floodplains, one research group noted a “drastic ecosystem shift” that has reduced jungle to savanna. In the southeastern Amazon, which has been assaulted by rapacious cattle ranching, trees are dying off and being pushed aside by species better acclimated to drier climes. In the southwestern Amazon, fast-growing bamboo is overtaking lands ravaged by fire and drought.Has the Amazon Reached Its ‘Tipping Point(s)’? Savannah? Scrubland? 0123.rtfOregon Conifers Suffer Record Die-Off as Climate Crisis Hits Hard 1222.rtfLarge Wild Herbivores May Help Slow Climate Change 1222.rtfEU’S New Climate Change Plan Will Cause Biodiversity Loss, Deforestation 1222.rtfDeforestation Is Pushing Amazon Rainforest to ‘Point of No Return’ 1122.rtfHow Does Forest Restoration in the U.S. Southwest Look with Climate Change? 1022.rtfGT (Huge) Carbon Net Loss in Forests of Canada, Amazon & Australia + Permafrost 0922.rtfForest Loss in East Brazil Changes How Close the Amazon Is to a Tipping Point 0922.rtfClimate Change Threatens Health and Survival of Urban Trees 0922.rtf - Boreal forests are moving north, retreating from the south and advancing into the tundra.Mass Death of Sequoias Is the Harbinger of Earth Systems Collapse 0822.rtfWildfires Are Destroying California's Forest Carbon Credit Reserves 0822.rtf'Staggering' Rate of Global Tree Losses from Fires 0822.rtfHow Deforestation Is Pushing the Amazon toward a Tipping Point 0722.rtfGlobal Heating Has Caused Shocking Changes in Forests across the Americas 0822.rtfClimate Change’s Impact Intensifies, Led by Arctic 0822.rtfClimate Change Is Warming Canada's Great Expanse of Boreal Forest, Bringing Greater Risk of Fire and Disease 0822.rtf‘In 10 Years, We Might Not Have Forests’- DRC Struggles to Halt Charcoal Trade 0722.rtfWorld’s Largest Trees Are Struggling to Survive Climate Change 0622.rtf - in Sequoia National ParkIn an Increasingly Warmer World, Trees Are Not a Climate Change Cure-All 0522.rtfExperts Fear These Forests Could Shift from Absorbing CO2 to Emitting It 0422.rtfMassive Wildfires Helped Fuel Global Forest Losses in 2021 - 0422.rtfThe World Has Been Losing 10 Soccer Fields of Tropical Forest Per Minute 0422.rtfTropical Trees’ Growth and CO2 Intake Hit by More Extreme Dry Seasons 0422.rtfAmazon Rainforest Hurtles toward a Tipping Point, Can't Recover from Droughts, Logging 0322.rtfLumber Prices Rose, in Part, due to Warmer Weather, Pine Beetles 0222.rtfUnnatural Disasters Plague Canada's Forests, Half Our Tree Species May Disappear 0222.rtfTipping Points Passed? (4) Forests and the Amazon - a Faltering Carbon Sink 0122.rtfLumber Prices Are off the Rails Again. Blame Climate Change. 0122.rtfTropical Forests Can Recover from Deforestation Remarkably Fast if Near Forests 1221.rtfGermany's Forest Fight 1221.rtfWildfires Are Erasing Western Forests. Climate Change Is Making It Permanent. 1121.rtfSleeping Beauty's Forest Is Dying, Climate Crisis Faces Next German Chancellor 0921.rtfBolsonaro’s 1,000 km Amazon Railway Will Cause Climate Chaos. We Must Stop It 0721.rtfHotter and Drier - Deforestation and Wildfires Take a Toll on the Amazon 0721.rtfAs Frozen Land Burns, Siberia Fears that without the Forest, We Don’t Have Life 0721.rtfThe Brazilian Amazon Is Burning, Again 0621.rtfSettlers Invade, Deforest Colombian National Parks at ‘Unstoppable Speed’ 0521.rtfTrees Fell Faster since Companies, Governments Promised to Stop Felling Them 0521.rtfLatest Warning of Rainforest Turning into Savanna as Climate Warms 0321.rtfTropical Forest Destruction Accelerated in 2020 - 0321.rtfIs This the End of Forests as We’ve Known Them? 0321.rtf2:3 of Tropical Rainforest Destroyed or Degraded Globally 0321.rtfAs Amazon Forest-to-Savanna Tipping Point Looms, Solutions Remain Elusive 0221.rtf

Large Wild Herbivores May Help Slow Climate Change 1222.rtf - By removing living and dead plants, large animals dispose of material that may fuel wildfires. By consuming vegetation and excreting dung, they may improve availability of nutrients to plants and support the storage of carbon in vegetation and soil. By creating gaps in the vegetation and dispersing seeds, they create diverse ecosystems with plenty of opportunities for a variety of plants to grow, making ecosystems more resilient and better able to deal with climate change. By nibbling down polar region shrubs and trampling snow, large animals help maintain permafrost, helping prevent the release of carbon to the atmosphere.