How Will Maine’s Coastal Spruce Forests Handle Climate Change?

How will Maine’s coastal spruce forests handle climate change?

The canopy of a red spruce stand at Penny’s Preserve in Blue Hill. Photo by Emmett Gartner.As a cadre of Maine foresters and ecologists shuffled down the sun-baked roads of Surry Forest on Wednesday they were faced with the same sweltering heat they are trying to prepare Maine’s coastal forests for in the face of climate change. Like much of Maine’s coast, this 2,100-acre tract of land likely hosted shady, lichen-covered stands of red spruce for…

Climate change: Group plants 100,000 trees in Jigawa - EnviroNews - latest environment news, climate change, renewable energy

Partnership for Development Action (PADAC) Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, has begun planting of 100,000 tree seedlings to mitigate climate change in Jigawa State. Tree planting PADAC is a focal group of the Agro-Climate Reselliance in Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL), implementing tree planting campaign in the state. Its Executive Director, Aisha Muhammad, said this during the inauguration of the 2025 tree planting campaign, on Thur…