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In Blown-Down Forests, a Story of Survival

Oct 18, 2012 (SPX)

In newscasts after intense wind and ice storms, damaged trees stand out: snapped limbs, uprooted trunks, entire forests blown nearly flat. In a storm's wake, la...

Boreal forest bends to development but there is a breaking point

Oct 17, 2012 (SPX)

Northern Alberta's boreal forest shows a surprising resiliency to human intrusion, but University of Alberta researchers warn the landscape has a definite break...

Study: Windblown forests best left alone

Oct 17, 2012 (UPI)

Leaving fallen trees alone may be the best management practice for preserving forests damaged by intense windstorms, U.S. researchers say. A study by Harvard Un...

The destruction of the rainforest is not the only problem: A change of strategy is needed to save the Sumatran orangutans

Oct 17, 2012 (SPX)

The orangutans in Sumatra are in danger of becoming extinct. Anthropologists from the University of Zurich now prove that only recently this ape species saw a d...

Native Plant Fares Well in Pilot Green Roof Research Study

Oct 16, 2012 (SPX)

As the implementation of green roofs increase, a University of Cincinnati pilot study examined which plants best thrive on the region's roofs during the dry, ho...

Half of all wetlands destroyed since 1900: report

Oct 16, 2012 (AFP)

An alarming 50 percent of the world's wetlands have been destroyed in the last 100 years, threatening human welfare at a time of increasing water scarcity, a ne...

Dire drought ahead, may lead to massive tree death

Oct 16, 2012 (SPX)

Evidence uncovered by a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, geography professor suggests recent droughts could be the new normal. This is especially bad news fo...

Research shows legume trees can fertilize and stabilize maize fields, generate higher yields

Oct 15, 2012 (SPX)

Inserting rows of "fertilizer trees" into maize fields, known as agroforestry, can help farmers across sub-Saharan Africa cope with the impacts of drought and d...

China to up reforestation

Oct 14, 2012 (UPI)

China has plans to increase its forest coverage to 21.66 percent by 2015 in an effort to improve the country's ecological environment, an official said Sunday. ...

SciTechTalk: Amazon's 'razor blade' choice

Oct 14, 2012 (UPI)

With the admission this week by Amazon's Jeff Bezos that the company doesn't make any money on its new Kindle Fire tablets and Paperwhite e-readers, people coul...

Study finds nearly 50% of retail firewood infested with insects

Oct 10, 2012 (SPX)

A new study published in the Journal of Economic Entomology reports that live insects were found in 47% of firewood bundles purchased from big box stores, gas s...

Northern conifers youngest of the species

Oct 09, 2012 (SPX)

Dramatic shifts in the planet's climate and geography over millions of years changed the course of evolutionary history for conifer trees, according to a Yale p...

Climate change cripples forests

Oct 04, 2012 (SPX)

Combine the tree-ring growth record with historic information, climate records and computer-model projections of future climate trends, and you get a grim pictu...

Semi-dwarf trees may enable a green revolution for some forest crop

Oct 02, 2012 (SPX)

The same "green revolution" concepts that have revolutionized crop agriculture and helped to feed billions of people around the world may now offer similar pote...

Rangers losing battle in Philippine forests

Oct 02, 2012 (AFP)

Father-of-five Alex Lesber patrols one of the Philippines' most important forests carrying a cheap pistol and memories of a pastor being shot dead in front of h...

Indonesian palm oil company loses permit on illegal logging

Sep 28, 2012 (AFP)

Indonesia's Aceh province revoked a permit from a palm oil company found to be logging illegally, a spokesman said Friday, in a case seen as a test of the natio...

Study Examines Forest Vulnerability to Climate Change

Sep 27, 2012 (JPL)

Mid-elevation forests - those between approximately 6,500 to 8,000 feet (1,981 to 2,438 meters) in elevation - are the most sensitive to rising temperatures and...

Organised crime moving into logging: UN, Interpol

Sep 27, 2012 (AFP)

Organised crime is now a big player in illegal logging, which accounts for up to 30 percent of all wood traded globally, the UN and Interpol warned on Thursday....

5,000-year-old tree unearthed in Britain

Sep 26, 2012 (UPI)

The trunk of a giant oak tree unearthed from a field in Britain may be more than 5,000 years old, forestry experts say. They called the 44-foot Norfolk bog oak ...

Nunavut's mysterious ancient life could return by 2100

Sep 25, 2012 (SPX)

Global climate change means that recently discovered ancient forests in Canada's extreme north could one day return, according to Alexandre Guertin-Pasquier of ...