After Storm Darragh

The Glandwr Forest didn't escape completely unscathed by Storm Darragh
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Enhanced Rock Weathering with Volcanic Rocks

Kat Clayton from Imperial College London explains the importance of volcanic rocks for enhanced rock weathering.
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Big Tree Measure 2024: How tall are the trees?

Thank you to all the citizen scientists who joined us to measure 6,400 trees in just 9 days!
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A day in the life of a Carbon Community volunteer

One of our volunteers, Lucy, shares her experience of getting involved with The Carbon Community…
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The Carbon Community Wins Three Prestigious Forestry Awards

Recognition of outstanding achievements in woodland management, community access, and innovative environmental practices.
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At 50, the barcode isn’t ready to retire

The Carbon Community uses barcodes extensively to identify and track individual trees. The story of how barcodes came about is fascinating, because they almost looked like the concentric circles of tree rings. In this article, we celebrate the barcode from its humble beginnings through to its use in tracking trees today.
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On Guard for Earth Day 2024

Tree guards provide critical protection for trees in their early years, but they should be removed and recycled when no longer needed. We show you how.
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Going on a tree hunt

In a first, this is how we used our new tree position data to find 129 specific trees from the 25,600 in our field trial.
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Big Tree Measure 2023, it takes a community!

This October, 120 citizen scientists came together for our Big Tree Measure 2023.
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How to measure rock weathering carbon sequestration: Explainer Video

Watch Bonnie Waring from Imperial College London explain the methods she and her team are using to verify carbon dioxide removal at The Carbon Community.
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Watch: University of Oxford start biodiversity study at The Carbon Community

Watch Dr Emily Warner, from the Nature-based Solutions Initiative at the University of Oxford, talk about a new invertebrate biodiversity study at the Glandwr Forest.
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Sampling the Fungi That Drive Soil Carbon Sequestration.

Oliver Lindsay, Research Assistant at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew shares some of his work on sampling and identifying Mycorrhizal fungi at The Glandwr Forest
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Watch TED Talk: Rewilding the soil

TED Talk: How to harness the ancient partnership between forests and fungi.
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The Big Tree Measure 2022

On the 6th of October we set out to measure the 6,400 individual trees in our landmark carbon sequestration study in only 8 days.
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How tall are the trees after two growing seasons?

In October, together with an incredible group of community science volunteers and organisations, we aim measure and record 6,400 individual tree measurements in our app. This is a truly massive task, and one that is critical to our research.
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Our trees in the drought

How are The Carbon Community’s trees coping with the drought conditions? We take a look at some of the trees planted earlier this year and how they’re faring in this heat.
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Earth Day 2022: Trees, Science and People Connected

Earth Day 2022 is here. This year the theme is Invest in Our Planet. At The Carbon Community we will continue to invest in the magic that is bringing together trees, science and people.
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Can mycorrhizal fungi accelerate carbon sequestration?

One of the exciting techniques we’re testing is whether injecting soil from established forests can help young trees to get established, and even sequester more carbon.
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CO2 removal by enhanced rock weathering

Could the combination of crushed basalt rock weathering and tree planting be an important way to recover excess CO2 from the air?
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Community Science Update

We've made amazing progress on site thanks to a dedicated set of volunteers. There 's still more to do though.
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Planting a seed for partnership

Supporters of The Carbon Community: SAP UK. We are delighted to announce that SAP SE is the first company to sponsor The Carbon Community’s landmark carbon study.
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Getting involved with citizen science projects

Since today is World Environment Day, we have a suggestion for all: how about getting involved with environmental science?
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Landmark Carbon Study launched

Today The Carbon Community is unveiling our landmark carbon study. The project aims to uncover a new reforestation approach, rooted in science, to accelerate and enhance the sequestration of carbon in trees and soil to tackle the climate crisis.
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Time to get growing

It’s time to get growing at the Glandwr Forest. A significant Welsh Government Tree Planting Grant is dramatically accelerating this new forest.
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Trees and Carbon

Forest restoration is one of our best strategies for removing carbon dioxide from the air and slowing global heating. With woodland covering only 13% of the UK, we have no time to waste.
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2021 Trend: Corporate Greenwashing and the dirty world of offsetting

While more and more big companies are pledging to become carbon neutral, we need to be careful to distinguish between real behaviour change and greenwashing.
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Are we there yet, with tree planting in the UK?

This time last year, the government promised 30,000 hectares of trees to be planted every year. Are we there yet? The short answer is no.
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The Carbon Community to establish the Glandwr Forest

We are delighted to announce that we have completed our first land purchase, a beautiful site on the edge of the Brecon Beacons in Wales.
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Now is the time to harvest acorns and plant Oaks!

With a bumper crop of acorns this year, if you haven’t already planted some, now is the perfect time to give nature a helping hand to create the next generation of oak trees. In this article, we’ll try and cover the most common question on acorn harvesting and planting for maximum success.
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What to plant? Broadleaf vs Conifer

We examine the age old debate about conifers vs broadleaf trees from a fresh perspective about carbon capture. Do we know for sure what is the most effective approach for carbon capture?
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Reducing meat and dairy in our diets

Livestock accounts for an estimated 14% of all greenhouse gas produced by human activity. So does giving reducing meat and dairy help to combat climate change?
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The Tipping Point For The Environment

World Environment Day as we reach a tipping point in our response to the climate emergency.
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Humanity's Mortality Moment.

This video is essential viewing for those that care about the environment - it summarizes why 11,000 scientists are so worried about global heating, and why things are getting more urgent. There are some key lessons in this for us all.
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​How Green is Your Energy?

The news is full of stories citing the importance of renewable energy and reducing the proportion of fossil fuels used generating electricity. This is all good news – we need to stop burning things, because burning releases additional CO2 into the air.
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The Different Kinds of Forest.

Not all new woodland creation projects are alike, rather they fall into two distinct types, amenity woodlands, and carbon capture forests. We explore the differences and tradeoffs.
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Why a Carbon Community?

The Carbon Community is a Charity dedicated to carbon capture. But it’s also a movement - it’s about all of us, coming together to reduce CO2 in the air. It’s about you and me, together with a few companies collectively making a difference.
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Why the Planet is Crying Out for New Forests.

Nature has a wonderfully simple system for dealing with Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in the air – they’re called forests. Forests capture CO2 and via photosynthesis turn it into sugars which are then used to grow trees. We even eat some of these sugars, like cane sugar and maple syrup. The problem, of course is that there aren’t enough forests left to cope with the amount of CO2 that man is now producing on earth.
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