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Forest killer plant study explores rapid environmental change factors
Sep 24, 2012 (SPX)
It's called mile-a-minute weed or "forest killer." Mikania micrantha is an exotic, invasive species that spreads quickly, covering crops, smothering trees and r...
U.N.: World must sustain its forests
Sep 24, 2012 (UPI)
A country's forests must be carefully managed because they play a crucial role in helping achieve sustainable development, a senior U.N. official says. Jose Gra...
Research study trees chopped down
Sep 18, 2012 (UPI)
An Australian university says the cutting down of more than 140 trees planted for a 13-year study destroyed its research and it's suing the contractor involved....
Trouble in paradise: Does nature worship harm the environment?
Sep 17, 2012 (SPX)
Consumers nurture romantic ideas of nature by engaging in practices that are often harmful to the environment, according to a new study in the Journal of Consum...
Old Deeds, Witness Trees Offer Glimpse of Pre-settlement Forest in West Virginia
Sep 17, 2012 (SPX)
Using old deeds and witness trees, a U.S. Forest Service scientist has created a glimpse of the composition of the forests that covered today's Monongahela Nati...
Forest mortality and climate change: The big picture
Sep 14, 2012 (SPX)
Over the past two decades, extensive forest death triggered by hot and dry climatic conditions has been documented on every continent except Antarctica. Forest ...
Droughts are pushing trees to the limit
Sep 13, 2012 (SPX)
As temperatures rise and droughts become more severe in the Southwest, trees are increasingly up against extremely stressful growing conditions, especially in l...
Salt Seeds Clouds in the Amazon Rainforest
Sep 13, 2012 (SPX)
It's morning, deep in the Amazon jungle. In the still air innumerable leaves glisten with moisture, and fog drifts through the trees. As the sun rises, clouds a...
Canadian city to cut down its trees
Sep 07, 2012 (UPI)
A Canadian city says an invasion of the emerald ash borer has led it to decide to cut down every ash tree in the city in the next 10 years. Workers in Hamilton,...
Loss of tropical forests reduces rain
Sep 07, 2012 (SPX)
Deforestation can have a significant effect on tropical rainfall, new research confirms. The findings have potentially devastating impacts for people living in ...
Amazonian deforestation may cut rainfall by a fifth
Sep 05, 2012 (AFP)
Deforestation may cause rainfall in the Amazonian basin to decline disastrously, British scientists said in a study published on Wednesday by the journal Nature...
Controversy in Liberian forest logging
Sep 05, 2012 (UPI)
Liberia's rainforests are at risk from uncontrolled logging by private companies that could deprive people of economic benefits, an environmental group warns. A...
Liberia forests sold off in secret logging contracts: report
Sep 04, 2012 (AFP)
Forty percent of Liberia's forests have been sold off in secretive and often illegal contracts, Global Witness said Tuesday, just days after the country's presi...
Natural Regeneration Building Urban Forests, Altering Species Composition
Aug 24, 2012 (SPX)
In forested regions of the nation, natural regeneration may help cities achieve tree cover goals at the expense of maintaining the desired tree species. A study...
Myanmar in deforestation crisis
Aug 22, 2012 (UPI)
Myanmar's forest coverage is down to only a fifth of the country's total area and officials say they want a total ban on exporting wood to foreign countries. Th...
Widespread local extinctions in tropical forest 'remnants'
Aug 17, 2012 (SPX)
The small fragments of tropical forests left behind after deforestation are suffering extensive species extinction, according to new research led by the Univers...
Marine research in the Brazilian rain forest
Aug 16, 2012 (SPX)
Until recent decades the Atlantic Rainforest covered a large area of today's Brazil from Amazonas to present-day Argentina. In the 1970s, after years of defores...
Thai forces 'kill 38 Cambodian loggers in six months'
Aug 14, 2012 (AFP)
Thai forces shot dead 38 Cambodians in the first half of this year for illegally crossing the border to log for valuable timber, according to the Cambodian auth...
New bird species discovered in 'cloud forest' of Peru
Aug 13, 2012 (SPX)
A colorful, fruit-eating bird with a black mask, pale belly and scarlet breast - never before described by science - has been discovered and named by Cornell Un...
Birds do better in 'agroforests' than on farms
Aug 09, 2012 (SPX)
Compared with open farmland, wooded "shade" plantations that produce coffee and chocolate promote greater bird diversity, although a new University of Utah stud...
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