Climate change

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Forest Research Launches Climate Change Factsheet Series

  • Posted on: 28 Jan 2021

Forest Research has today (Thursday 28th January 2021) launched the first in a series of factsheets exploring the effects of climate change on our trees and woodlands. Aimed at practitioners,…
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Not seeing the carbon for the trees? Mapping net change in carbon from afforestation in Scotland

  • Posted on: 13 Aug 2020

Researchers at the James Hutton Institute, Forest Research and the University of Aberdeen have developed a new way to quantify the potential carbon storage for eleven different forestry management alternatives in Scottish locations using a novel spatial analysis method.
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Forest Research collaborate with Defra and Vodafone to pilot new generation of tree growth monitors

  • Posted on: 30 Jul 2020

Forest Research collaborate with Defra and Vodafone to pilot new generation of tree growth monitors
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Celebrating British Science Week

  • Posted on: 11 Mar 2020

This week, scientists from Forest Research have been demonstrating their research on woodlands and climate change at Forestry England’s Alice Holt Forest. The activities are part of British Science Week and have been carried out with local college students.
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Looking to the future with centenary trees planted at Alice Holt Lodge

  • Posted on: 19 Dec 2019

As part of the Forestry Commission’s centenary celebrations, Forest Research is has planted 25 trees in the grounds of its research station at Alice Holt Lodge, in the south-east of England.
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Wind and forests - the evolution of research from the 1950s to the present day

  • Posted on: 2 Oct 2019

Wind and forests – the evolution of research since the 1950s
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What do we know about how trees can cool our towns and cities?

  • Posted on: 6 Aug 2019

What do we know about how trees can cool our towns and cities?
Image of New study to predict and monitor the response of forests to drought and temperature change.

New study to predict and monitor the response of forests to drought and temperature change.

  • Posted on: 13 Feb 2019

A new £800,000 interdisciplinary study designed to predict and monitor the response of European forests to drought and temperature change.
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Tree bark biochar: a green bullet for Scotland’s carbon store

  • Posted on: 14 Jan 2019

Tree bark biochar: a green bullet for Scotland’s carbon store
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Urban trees could be answer to hot office block woes

  • Posted on: 22 Oct 2018

Office workers feeling the heat could benefit from the planting of nearby trees, a new study by the University of Reading and Forest Research has found.