Homesteadin' Hawai'i is dedicated to sharing knowledge gained from living over 20 years off-grid in Hawaii on a homestead I ...

Homesteadin' Hawai'i is dedicated to sharing knowledge gained from living over 20 years off-grid in Hawaii on a homestead I started myself with very little money. I cover off-grid living, permaculture ...

Looking for a food forest plant list for sub-tropical regions? Growing a sub-tropical or Southern California winter garden is simple with the right plant choices. As the first rains dapple the ...

The air moving above the forest carries valuable information about how trees absorb carbon, and what may happen in the future ...

Tropical forests can withstand around 4 degrees Celsius ... “Almost all life – including humans – is dependent on photosynthesis for food either directly or indirectly,” said Kevin ...

Plantations, by contrast, had a very different energy distribution: food webs in canopies ... "Ecological and Socioeconomic Functions of Tropical Lowland Rainforest Transformation Systems EFForTS." ...

A study provides insights into how energy flows in the food webs that connect soil- and canopy-dwelling organisms in tropical ecosystems with high biodiversity. When rainforest is converted to ...

Tropical forests degraded by logging may be far richer ... which reflects total energy consumption across the food chain. “You can think of energy flow as the measure of health or vitality ...

These places also provide us with a whole host of benefits, such as food ... of logged forests that support higher levels of biodiversity than oil palm plantation. While primary tropical forests ...

An area of tropical forest the size of Switzerland was lost ... driven primarily by growing global demand for food, fuel, and fiber. Climate change impacts, including severe fires and new vectors ...