SHERWOOD, Ore. (AP) — Deep inside a forest in Oregon’s Willamette Valley stands a dead “Tree of Life.” Its foliage, normally soft and green, is tough and brown or missing altogether. Nonetheless, the ...
More than half of the tree cover in Pacific atolls is largely composed of “abandoned and overgrown” colonial-era coconut palm plantations, reveal satellite images in a study published in December 2024 ...
Pacific Northwest forests provide the perfect breeding ground for a sci-fi tale about alien invasion
Mushrooms grow from the bark of a tree in Olympic National Forest. (USFS Photo / Kelsey Dyer) If you’re going to write a novel about an alien fungus threatening the planet, there are few places more ...
Fossils of kelp along the Pacific Coast are rare. Until now, the oldest fossil dated from 14 million years ago, leading to the view that today's denizens of the kelp forest -- marine mammals, urchins, ...
Coconut palms are king throughout the tropics, serving as the foundation for human lives and cultures across the Pacific Ocean for centuries. However, 200 years of planting by colonial interests ...
Primary forests across Southeast Asia and the Pacific underpin the region’s agrifood systems and societies. They hold globally irreplaceable biodiversity, store vast carbon reserves, regulate the ...
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An X-ray reconstruction of a 32-million-year-old fossil kelp holdfast colored to show the base (orange), holdfast (yellow) and the bivalve shell to which it attached (blue). The unique underwater kelp ...
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