Dr. Lowman’s latest Nature’s Secrets column in newsobserver.com:
The recent film “The Lorax” provides a whimsical way to learn an important message about the science of sustainability.
Simply stated, humans need forests to live, and the entire planet needs forests for global health. Forests provide humans with a multitude of free services that operate while we sleep, if we simply leave trees intact.
Thanks to current forestry research, scientists now have a better understanding of forests than the Once-ler, Dr. Seuss’s main character in “The Lorax.” North Carolinians not only need the forests in our state – our lives also depend upon the health of tropical forests in the Amazon and Congo basins and Asia.