A large Amazon study suggests the most powerful conservation move may be protecting the forests that are already standing. Preventing damage from wildfires and logging delivered the greatest biodiversity benefits and nearly matched deforestation prevention for protecting carbon. Restoration remains important, particularly where forests have already been heavily cleared, but it was more expensive and less effective on its own.
Source: ScienceDaily | Natural Disasters
ScienceDaily | Natural Disasters
- Hurricane Hunters reveal 4 warning signs that a storm is about to strengthen
- Anak Krakatau blasts ash nearly 10 miles high
- Scientists stunned as volcano cloud starts destroying methane
- One Mount Etna eruption took weeks. Another happened in hours
- Global warming is breaking a 400-year climate link between two oceans
- Scientists find water was fueling volcanoes 3 billion years ago
- UNESCO warns there’s close to a 100% chance of a Mediterranean tsunami
- Geologists reveal the Americas collided millions of years earlier than thought
- Indonesia’s most dangerous fires are burning underground
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