12 results for “forest”
Plants & Fungi
Trees and Forests
Forests Trees rarely grow alone. Forests cover about 31 percent of the land and come in great
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Life & Biology
Ecosystems and Food Webs
forests, and the fish, seals and birds that lived in the kelp vanished with it. When
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Plants & Fungi
Fungi
forests drop billions of tonnes of leaves and, over time, whole trees. Fungi are the main
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Animals
Animal Migration
forests in central Mexico that it has never seen and that no monarch alive has seen
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Plants & Fungi
Photosynthesis: How Plants Eat Light
forests but in the sea, in floating microscopic algae and cyanobacteria too small to see, which
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Planet Earth
Rocks, Minerals and Fossils
forests, the reptiles, the dinosaurs, the mammals and, in the last two million years, ourselves. Because
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Chemistry
Acids and Bases
forests and lakes. Today the oceans are absorbing carbon dioxide from the air, which forms carbonic
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Plants & Fungi
Carnivorous Plants
forests of South East Asia; the largest, on the mountains of Borneo, hold over a litre
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Planets & the Solar System
The Sun
forests and plankton. Wind blows because the Sun heats the air unevenly. Rivers flow because it lifts
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Planet Earth
Volcanoes
forests and farms. The same fire that buried Pompeii is the reason there is a living
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Animals
Insects
forest canopy can yield species never seen before by the dozen. More worryingly, surveys in Europe
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Life & Biology
Dinosaurs and Mass Extinctions
forests burning across the globe. Worse came after. Dust and sulphur hurled into the stratosphere blotted
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