The decarbonization of industry and industrial systems is a pressing challenge given the
relative lack of low-carbon options available for “hard to decarbonize” sectors such as …

Paper has shaped society for centuries and is considered one of humanity's most important
inventions. However, pulp and paper products can be damaging to social and natural …

Tropical forests disappear rapidly because of deforestation, yet they have the potential to
regrow naturally on abandoned lands. We analyze how 12 forest attributes recover during …

Significant efforts have been invested to restore mangrove forests worldwide through
reforestation and afforestation. However, blue carbon benefit has not been compared …

The globally important carbon sink of intact, old-growth tropical humid forests is declining
because of climate change, deforestation and degradation from fire and logging …

To constrain global warming, we must strongly curtail greenhouse gas emissions and
capture excess atmospheric carbon dioxide,. Regrowing natural forests is a prominent …

China's extensive planted forests play a crucial role in carbon storage, vital for climate
change mitigation. However, the complex spatiotemporal dynamics of China's planted forest …

Tropical secondary forests sequester carbon up to 20 times faster than old-growth forests.
This rate does not capture spatial regrowth patterns due to environmental and disturbance …

Succession is a fundamental concept in ecology because it indicates how species
populations, communities, and ecosystems change over time on new substrate or after a …

Land use policies have turned southern China into one of the most intensively managed
forest regions in the world, with actions maximizing forest cover on soils with marginal …