A new study reveals that trees consume methane, a greenhouse gas responsible for around 30% of global warming.
The solutions and the debate on how to strengthen forest resilience in the Mediterranean basin brought together up to 40 people during the course organized by CREAF and CIHEAM Zaragoza, in collaboration with EFI. Decision-makers from Albania, Algeria, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey participated.
Plants play a crucial role in the biosphere: they absorb carbon dioxide, release oxygen, and transfer water from the soil to the atmosphere. How do trees drink, and what happens when the water in the ground runs out?
A study published in Communications Earth and Environment – Nature has managed to read the rings of five hundred trees and reconstruct the history of rainfall in the Andean highlands of South America from 1700 to 2013.
Wildfires in Canada during the summer of 2023 destroyed forests, habitats and infrastructures and burned more land than in the previous 7 years. A state of emergency that CREAF pre-doctoral researcher Gerard Codina experienced first-hand from Montreal.
The sustained destruction of forest cover is the critical result of the war that Syria has been experiencing since 2011, especially in the northeastern mountain range and around Damascus -the capital in the south- with long-term environmental and humanitarian consequences. CREAF pre-doctoral researcher Angham Daiyoub is the first author of the scientific article analysing the situation.
After discovering the training needs in urban forestry and the socio-environmental challenges of filling cities with trees, Uforest culminates its research with a practical guide that is particularly useful for political decision-makers and municipal government managers.
