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Nottingham Forest’s injured AFCON star Ola Aina returns to training
Nottingham Forest and Super Eagles versatile full-back, Temitayo Olaoluwa Aina has returned to training after picking up an injury during international duty, Soccernet.ng reports. Aina, 27, played all seven games for the Super Eagles at the AFCON 2023 outing in Ivory Coast and made the team of the tournament after an outstanding performance for Jose
Naturally regrowing forests are helping to protect the remaining old forests in the Amazon
Canopy of old-growth forest in the Peruvian Amazon. Credit: John Healey The climate crisis and UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration have generated great interest in the value of secondary forests. These are forests that have regrown naturally on land abandoned from agriculture. Collaborative research between Lancaster University, Bangor University, and the University of British Columbia
Want to help California’s kelp forests? Eat sea urchins.
ByKristen PopePublished July 20, 2022• 11 min readLooking out over the Pacific Ocean, diners at the Harbor House Inn’s bluff-top restaurant in Elk, California, are accustomed to finding locally harvested seafood on their plates. But one ingredient plucked from the waters below makes more than a delicious meal. Eating purple sea urchins when they’re available…
Fires can help forests hold onto carbon—if they’re set the right way
One frightening element of climate change is increasingly common and dangerous wildfires. Turkey, Siberia, and the US all saw intense wildfire seasons in 2021, breaking records for carbon emissions levels and causing massive evacuations. According to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), the season for usually dry parts of the US used to last about…