Carbon & Carbon Storage

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Press Release

Thunderstorms are a major driver of tree death in tropical forests

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Press Release

Replanted rainforests may benefit from termite transplants

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Lecture Video

Gigante: Tracking the Fate of the World’s Big Trees [video]

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Media Coverage

The teeming life of dead trees

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Blog: Translational Ecology

Wood Burial to combat climate change?

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Blog: Translational Ecology

Duke declares victory

prescribed fire in an alaska spruce forest
Press Release

New project will inform firefighting efforts to maximize carbon storage in Alaskan refuge

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Video

If a giant tree dies, these scientists want to find out why

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Media Coverage

Are the Amazon’s biggest trees dying? Forest coroners investigate

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Feature

Trees can clean up pollution from tailpipes, smokestacks, and wildfires — but where we plant them matters

A tape measure crossing a burnt, dry landscape with trees in the background
Press Release

Forest carbon storage has declined across much of the Western US, likely due to drought and fire

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Press Release

Tropical forests adjust strategies to thrive even when soils are nutrient poor