(IN BRIEF) Researchers at the Technical University of Munich have identified an unprecedented rise in aboveground biomass loss across Europe’s forests since 2018, using satellite data to assess changes in forest biomass rather than only tree cover. The study found … Read the full press release
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(IN BRIEF) The University of Southampton is joining SYNCHRONY, a major €8.5 million EU-funded research project involving 27 institutions worldwide. The four-year project aims to establish a coordinated observation system across the Southern Ocean and Antarctic coastal regions, where sea … Read the full press release
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(IN BRIEF) TUM researchers estimate that lightning kills about 320 million trees each year—damage that has been difficult to detect and previously underestimated. By augmenting the LPJ-GUESS global vegetation model with observational data and global lightning patterns, the team quantified … Read the full press release
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Tagged Andreas Krause, biomass decay, biomass loss, Boreal Forests, carbon storage, climate models, disturbance ecology, forest structure, Global Change Biology 2025, global vegetation model, increasing lightning frequency, Konstantin Gregor, land surface–atmosphere interactions, lightning-induced tree mortality, LPJ-GUESS, sustainability, Technical University of Munich, temperate forests, tropical forests, TUM, TUM School of Life Sciences, wildfire emissions, wildfires living plants
(IN BRIEF) A team of scientists, led by Dr. Matthew Davey of SAMS, has discovered an expansive ecosystem on the Robert Island ice cap in Antarctica, dominated by photosynthetic algae. This ecosystem, which covers up to 20% of the mapped … Read the full press release
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