A recent paper on the evidence of early forests on Doggerland, a landmass in the location that is now known as the North Sea, inspired me to revisit the issue of losing our forests. Like the ones that literally disappeared under the North Sea, there are lots of other forests that have fallen into oblivion after millennia of agriculture made us believe that pastures and fields are a natural landscape.
And there are the ones that are quietly disappearing right now, not just in the tropics but also at higher latitudes, even though we could really use their carbon sequestration services to fight climate change ...
The resulting feature is out now:
Forgotten forests
Current Biology Volume 36, Issue 10, 18 May 2026, Pages R421--R423
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Toby Kiers of the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks takes a sample next to an ancient alerce tree (Fitzroya cupressoides). (Photo: Tomás Munita/SPUN.)
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