Press Coverage
2025
Betting on future forest carbon storage endangers Paris Agreement targets - Mongabay
2022
New Research Reveals Forest Mitigation of Climate Change Is Overestimated - Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute
Climate change may push North America’s forests to a ‘tipping point’ - Inverse
We must get a grip on forest science — before it’s too late - Nature editorial by Aisling Irwin
2021
Scientists reduce uncertainty in forest carbon storage calculations - Science Daily
2020
New study shows where we should grow more forest to fight climate change - Mongabay
Study highlights climate mitigation potential of encouraging Earth’s forests to regenerate naturally - University of Oxford
Plant trees or let forests regrow? New studies probe two ways to fight climate change - Science
How the Revolutionary Thinker Alexander von Humboldt Helped to Create the Smithsonian - Smithsonian Magazine
Death of the giants: Forests getting shorter, younger, in Northwest and elsewhere - Seattle Times
World’s forests getting younger, shorter (McDowell et al. 2020):
Smithsonian Magazine | NPR | CNBC | National Geographic
Decades of Tree Data Reveal Forests Under Attack - Smithsonian Magazine
Deadly imports: In one U.S. forest, 25% of tree loss caused by foreign pests and disease - Science
One in Four Tree Deaths in Blue Ridge Mountains Linked to Invasive Species - Smithsonian National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute
New Research Identifies Carbon-Rich Lands That Are Essential to Avoiding Climate Catastrophe - Conservation International
2019
VNPS Funded Research Reveals Which Trees are Dying and Why - Virginia Native Plant Society
Yes, Tropical Forests Tragically Burned This Summer, but Here’s What You Can Do - Smithsonian Magazine
Researcher Spotlight: Kristina J. Anderson–Teixeira, Ph.D. - NACP
Kristina Anderson-Teixeira awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers:
| President’s Prize (STRI story) | ForestGEO blog | SCBI news story | White House press release | AGU press release |
2018
Inequality is normal: Dominance of the big trees - Science Daily
Climate change, wildfires transforming biodiversity hotspot in Northern California - United Press International
Warming future means more fire, fewer trees in western biodiversity hotspot - Science Daily
Using Mathematical Models to Save Forests - Smithsonian National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute
Increasing tree mortality in a warming world - Science Daily
Ash Tree die-off focus of grant in Shenandoah National Park - National Park Service
2017
Coverage of our collaboration with “Adaptation/Migration in the Anthropocene” art exhibit:
| Washington Post Going Out Guide | National Zoo Video |
Climate Changed - Medium
El Niño puede dañar resiliencia de bosques tropicales - SciDevNet
Smithsonian Scientists Examine Impact of High-Severity Fires on Conifer Forests - Smithsonian National Zoo
2016
A Beetle Invasion - Smithsonian National Zoo
Big Trees at Most Risk from Warming - Yale Climate Connections
2015
Big Trees First to Die in Severe Droughts - Climate Wire/ Scientific American
Are Harvard’s Dying Hemlocks a Warning for Trees Everywhere? - National Geographic
2014
If trees could talk: Forest research network reveals global change effects - Smithsonian Newsdesk