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When Dongi Kacaw was asked to write three articles about indigenous wild greens 26 years ago, she responded with surprise. “I don’t know how to do that,” she says. “I just know how to eat them!” But after returning to Hualien, the indigenous Pangcah (Amis) now known as the “godmother of wild greens” (野菜教母) could not stop thinking about the request. She couldn’t find anything in the library about the plants she grew up with — so she went home to ask her parents. “I started taking photos, visiting sunset markets, going foraging with old people … I completely thre...

New data maps global carbon flux in forests, allowing us to quantify CO2 emissions and sequestration in areas ranging from local forests to countries to continents.

The world is getting a better understanding of just how important forests are in the global fight against climate change. New research, published in Nature Climate Change and available on Global Forest Watch, found that the world’s forests sequestered about twice as much carbon dioxide as they emitted between 2001 and 2019. In other words, forests provide a “carbon sink” that absorbs a net 7.6 billion metric tonnes of CO2 per year, 1.5 times more carbon than the United States emits annually. Unlike other sectors, where carbon makes a one-way trip to the atmosphere, forests act...