The United Kingdom presents one — or perhaps several — paradoxes when it comes to the conservation of ‘nature’. Take this example near where I live: Holme Fen, a National Nature Reserve and Site of Sp...

Waltham Forest Council and Leyton Orient have signed an agreement intended to move forward exploration of a sports-led regeneration project in the borough. The Development Performance Agreement is a…

Waltz Brewing and The Growler Garage will hold their first Oktobierfest on Saturday, Sept. 26, from 2 to 9 p.m. in Forest Grove, with food trucks, local vendors, live music and a wiener dog race. Admission is free, and the event is open to all ages. The festival will stretch between the two businesses, The Growler Garage at 1837 Pacific Ave. and Waltz at 1900 A St., according to The Growler Garage's Oktobierfest event page. A Regeneration Dance Showcase opens the day at 2 p.m. Miles to Go plays the Growler Garage stage from 4 to 7 p.m., and Kalida plays the Waltz stage from 7 to 9 p.m. Contests run through the afternoon and evening, according to the event's schedule flyer: * 3 p.m.: Wiener dog races, sponsored by The Farm Store. The flyer lists the entry fee as one dog. * 5 p.m.: Hot dog eating contest, sponsored by Franko's Hot Dogs, $20 to enter * 6 p.m.: Costume contest, $10 to enter * 8 p.m.: Men's and women's stein-holding contests, $25 to enter Sign-up is at the info booth one hour before each contest. Food trucks expected include Altengartz German Sausages, Meat Hustler Nation, Korean Wagon, Teco Santo, Franko's Hot Dogs and Great NW Ice Cream, and The Growler Garage will also serve food. Waltz will have a variety of Oktoberfest beers. Vendors will sell fine art, jewelry, baked goods, specialty soda, kettle corn, shave ice, dried flower art, personalized magnets and custom trucker hats. Face painting and henna will be free.

In the villages of the Western Ghats, some of the oldest and tallest trees do not grow inside a national park. They grow in sacred groves, small patches of old, mostly untouched forest that local communities have protected for generations, because they believe the trees belong to their deities and ancestors. A new study published in the journal PLOS One found that young trees regenerate far more successfully in these groves. Seeds dropped by fruit-eating birds are much likelier to survive and grow there than in surrounding farms and villages. India has more than 100,000 sacred groves, which are recognised as essential to community-based conservation. The Western Ghats is a mountain range that runs about 1,600 kilometres down India’s west coast, across six states. The study began there by chance. A team from the Applied Environmental Research Foundation (AERF), which runs a giant-tree programme, had signed up a man in Vanzole village with a huge Terminalia bellirica (beheda) tree in his yard. Visiting, they saw giant trees all over the village. “It sparked a series of questions,” study co-author Kevin Matteson, associate director of Project Dragonfly at Miami University in the U.S. state of Ohio, told Mongabay in an email...

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New York State Parks staff proposed opening about 200 acres of Knox Farm State Park to archery‑only hunting beginning no earlier than Oct. 1, 2026, to reduce deer overbrowsing and promote forest regeneration; staff said the plan will undergo SEQR review and be monitored over multiple years.

Drew Mackenzie cuts a small figure nestled among the roots of a giant kahikatea growing in remnant ancient forest on the outskirts of Ōtaki.

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Abstract. Winter physiological processes are often overlooked in climate change studies of boreal forests, despite their critical role in determining tree survival and carbon balance. Winter climate c...