National Geographic - UK (2022-05)

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ORSOLYA HAARBERG The tangible benefits— food, wood, carbon storage—are not the only ones. Immersing oneself in woods, or “forest ...

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a 4,300-foot peak outside Prášily, a Czech vil- lage near the border with Germany. I huffed to keep pace with Petr Kahuda, a ran ...

planted trees only after forests had been logged—it counted on burned areas regen- erating naturally. Now, “over 80 percent of o ...

COLORADO With the help of a helicopter, charred trees ground to mulch are showered like cremated remains over a forest that burn ...

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NEVADA KEITH LADZINSKI A pale moon shines through the skeletons of bristlecone pines 21 years after a wildfire— made rare and mo ...

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that cost sequoias foliage had killed tens of mil- lions of trees—sugar pines, incense cedars, and white firs—in densely packed ...

Yet increasingly, governments from Japan to the United Kingdom are setting up complex trad- ing schemes that allow businesses to ...

AUSTRALIA’S ABORIGINAL PEOPLE HAVE REVIVED THE ANCIENT PRACTICE OF PLANNED BURNING TO PRESERVE AND RENEW THEIR HOMELANDS—AND HEL ...

BY KYLIE STEVENSON PHOTOGRAPHS BY MATTHEW ABBOTT 75 ...

Smoke from a fire set deliberately hovers over Arnhem Land in northern Australia. Aboriginal people have inhabited the area for ...

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. uis v r pr Guided by fires set by members of their clan, Kaywana Gamarr- wu and Vernon Gar- narradj, a Warddeken ranger, hike ...

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Tabetha and Estella Nadjamerrek, who are cousins, fling heavy- duty matches, igniting small brush fires that will burn out on th ...

and conduct prescribed burns from the air, drop- ping incendiary pellets from helicopters. Moist vegetation, low winds, and lowe ...

TOP Mary Kolkiwarra Nadjamerrek talks to schoolchildren about rock art. She helped lead a movement in the 1970s to get Aborigina ...