Mild winters have led to a surge in green spruce aphids, causing damage to the Sitka spruce trees at Glandwr Forest. Learn about their impact and natural predators.

Each year we ‘spruce up’ the Glandwr Forest Carbon Study with more than a lick of paint. We spruce it up with energy, care and commitment to maintaining the integrity of this large-scale field trial for years to come.

"Planted with hope, nurtured and measured with care." A beautiful poem written after our Big Tree Shelter removal by one of our volunteers.

Glandwr Forest has taken an exciting step forward through the Connected Trees and Woodlands project, part of the Welsh Government's National Forest for Wales Landscape Pilot 2024/2025 and administered by WCVA via Carmarthenshire Nature Partnership

In Mid Wales, in the hills of Glandwr Forest, hedgerows and their trees connect woodlands and grasslands, provide habitat for wildlife and teach us how to weave connections with each other and with the past.

Our forests give us so much; a place to walk, a place to relax, a wealth of biodiversity. They are also guardians of our climate; removing and storing carbon from the atmosphere. On this International Day of Forests, how can we collectively get more people involved? What stories can we share to help build optimism and momentum?

How was it that a farmer and a physicist, a specialist in bees and another in butterflies, people working in land management and pioneering conservation charities, and a historian now psychotherapist, could connect so well?

Discover the 'Connected Trees and Woodlands' project in Glandwr Forest, funded by the Welsh Government's National Forest for Wales Landscape Pilot 2024/2025 administered by WCVA. Learn about the conservation efforts, volunteer opportunities, and the award-winning forest's unique habitats.

During our Big Tree Measure in October, one of the volunteers asked about the conifer trees we were walking past. Sitka spruce, a fast-growing conifer from North America, became widely planted in the UK for timber production due to its rapid growth and resilience. Discover more about this species and why it is included in our research.

Witnesses to history, ancient trees in the UK can live for hundreds or even thousands of years providing a habitat for birds, lichens, mosses and more. The Ancient Tree Inventory helps document these irreplaceable natural wonders.

The Glandwr Forest didn't escape completely unscathed by Storm Darragh

Kat Clayton from Imperial College London explains the importance of volcanic rocks for enhanced rock weathering.

Thank you to all the citizen scientists who joined us to measure 6,400 trees in just 9 days!

One of our volunteers, Lucy, shares her experience of getting involved with The Carbon Community…

Recognition of outstanding achievements in woodland management, community access, and innovative environmental practices.

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.

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.

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.

This October, 120 citizen scientists came together for our Big Tree Measure 2023.

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.

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.

Oliver Lindsay, Research Assistant at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew shares some of his work on sampling and identifying Mycorrhizal fungi at The Glandwr Forest

TED Talk: How to harness the ancient partnership between forests and fungi.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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?

World Environment Day as we reach a tipping point in our response to the climate emergency.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.