Climate change: why we can’t rely on regrowing coastal habitats to offset carbon emissions: Akuditaputri/Shutterstock Removing several hundred billion tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere is now considered necessary to avert the worst effects of climate change. Using nature to help achieve that goal, by allowing habitats to regenerate, would seem to offer a win-win …
Amazon: regrowing forests have offset less than 10% of carbon emissions from deforestation: Nowaczyk/Shutterstock Driven largely by the expansion of farm land to meet increasing global demand for products such as soya bean, loggers have cleared over 810,000 km² of forest in the Amazon – an area nearly as big as Norway and Sweden combined. …
Regrowing a tropical forest – is it better to plant trees or leave it to nature?: Thammanoon Khamchalee / shutterstock The destruction of tropical forest is a major contributor to biodiversity loss and the climate crisis. In response, conservationists and scientists like us are debating how to best catalyse recovery of these forests. How do …
Regrowing knee cartilage: new animal studies show promise: Breslavtsev Oleg/Shutterstock In our joints, a slippery, elastic tissue called cartilage covers the ends of the articulating bones. If this protective covering is lost through injury or ageing, it leaves bone grinding painfully against bone. Cartilage injuries are very common and rarely heal spontaneously. This can cause …