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Project Learning Tree encourages using multiple senses to learn about forests. Here, students use their sense of smell.
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Project Learning Tree: Shaping the Future of California Forests

March 21, 2023
By Grace N Dean
On this International Day of Forests, we at UCCE Forest Research and Outreach invite you to celebrate the future of California's trees with us. Considering the recent news coverage regarding tree mortality in California, we want to instead view this subject through a lens of hope.
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Steven Davis, UCI professor of Earth system science, led a study of carbon dioxide emissions from forest fires in recent decades. In a paper in the journal Science, he and his colleagues shared some shocking findings. “According to our measurements, boreal fires in 2021 shattered previous records. These fires are two decades of rapid warming and extreme drought in Northern Canada and Siberia coming to roost, and unfortunately even this new record may not stand for long,” he says. Steve Zylius / UCI
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Wildfires in 2021 emitted a record-breaking amount of carbon dioxide

March 6, 2023
Irvine, Calif., March 2, 2023 Carbon dioxide emissions from wildfires, which have been gradually increasing since 2000, spiked drastically to a record high in 2021, according to an international team of researchers led by Earth system scientists at the University of California, Irvine.
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