Spotlight - Original Spotlight Open Geospatial Data Slashes Forestry Costs by 60% 🛰️💸 Monocultures still dominate Nordic forestry—67% of seedlings in Finland are Norway spruce.
News - Original Tech Suma and Forus Tree Team Up for Calder Valley Planting🌳 Forus Tree’s fencing-first model offers a potential plastic-free alternative, but whether it can scale remains to be seen.
Spotlight Mass Data Haul Reveals Life after Wildfire There are several ways frequent fire before the megafires could allow species to increase.
Tech - Original Tech Open Foris Whisp: A Game-Changer for Forest Monitoring 🌳💻 At its core, Whisp is like a forest detective armed with satellite maps, land-use data, and tree-cover analyses.
News - Original News COP29 Drills Down Forest Carbon Rules... in Theory 🌍💸 “This is not abstract bureaucracy,” he insisted. “These markets can drive real emissions reductions.”
Spotlight Governments Must Tackle Climate Disinformation, Experts Urge Therefore, more proactive, clear, accurate and effective communication efforts are consistently and repeatedly needed.
News - Original News Northwest Forest Plan Embraces Community Engagement 🌲 Don’t just scroll—save the owls and the trees.
Tech - Original Tech The Biggest Forest Carbon Database 🌲🌍 Covering 529 forest sites across eight biomes, it’s a meticulously curated resource for anyone studying carbon fluxes, forest traits, or the effects of climate change.
Spotlight How Rethinking ‘What Is a Forest’ Can Result in More Effective Conservation When the policy community asks, “is deforestation going up or down?” an acceptable answer can no longer be, “it depends."
Spotlight ‘Give Trees a Hand’ — Ad Agencies Line Up to Sell Sketchy Climate Solutions DeSmog revealed that the government’s pledge of £22 billion in subsidies for carbon capture projects followed a steep rise in lobbying efforts by major fossil fuel companies.
News - Original News NWT $375M Plan: Economy & Environment in Harmony 🌿 This initiative demonstrates that conservation and economic development aren’t at odds—they’re two sides of the same coin.
News - Original News Pine Cones Don’t Fly 🌰 Fournier delivered a clear-eyed, action-packed strategy to resuscitate Canada’s forests, which are under siege from wildfire damage at a rate that makes “natural recovery” look laughable.