Halt post-disturbance logging in forests, experts urge Date: September 23, 2020 Source: University of Würzburg Summary: Please do not disturb: After forest fires, bark beetle infestations and ...

Restoring even a fraction of the Tamaulipan thorn forest could help the region cope with the ravages of a warming world. Jon Dale’s love affair with birds began when he was about 10 and traded ...

It is with dismay that we read Anne Kawaters’ Nov. 20 letter, “Rejuvenating fire,” about the recent natural fire in Thorn Creek Nature Preserve. This kind of public finger-pointin… ...

By comparing the timing of the evolution of thorns on about 2,000 woody tree species in southern Africa and the time that ... Browsing antelope turned ancient African forests into grassy savanna ...

The Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge is one of the last remnants of the Tamaulipan thorn forest, a dense mosaic of at least 1,200 plants. They once covered more than 1 million acres on both ...

The Rio Grande Valley was once covered in forest. One man is trying to bring it back. The Tamaulipan thorn forest once covered 1 million acres on both sides of the border.

A thorn forest’s flood-fighting power lies in its roots, which loosen the soil so “it acts more like a sponge,” said Bradley Christoffersen, an ecologist at the University of Texas Rio ...