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Scientists develop first satellite deforestation tracker for whole of Latin America
Jun 21, 2012 (SPX)
An international team of researchers in Colombia, the UK, USA and Switzerland have developed the first ever system to monitor deforestation across Latin America...
Expansion of forests in the European Arctic could result in the release of carbon dioxide
Jun 20, 2012 (SPX)
Carbon stored in Arctic tundra could be released into the atmosphere by new trees growing in the warmer region, exacerbating climate change, scientists have rev...
Scientists dispel myths, provide new insight into human impact on pre-Columbian Amazon River Basin
Jun 19, 2012 (SPX)
A paper published this week in Science provides the most nuanced view to date of the small, shifting human populations in much of the Amazon before the arrival ...
Palm oil for India 'destroying Indonesian forests'
Jun 19, 2012 (AFP)
Surging demand for palm oil in India for cooking and everyday grocery items is driving tropical forest destruction in Indonesia, Greenpeace said Tuesday. In its...
Landsat Sets the Standard for Maps of World's Forests
Jun 19, 2012 (SPX)
Countries like Brazil are using data from NASA satellites to track and measure their forests in advance of a United Nations effort to reduce climate change by p...
Scientists reconstruct pre-Columbian human effects on the Amazon Basin
Jun 19, 2012 (SPX)
Small, shifting human populations existed in the Amazon before the arrival of Europeans, with little long-term effect on the forest. That's the result of resear...
US, others commit to restoring damaged forests
Jun 18, 2012 (AFP)
The United States, Rwanda and a coalition of Brazilian groups on Monday vowed to restore at least 18 million hectares (45 million acres) of damaged forests. The...
Bulgarian president vetoes controversial forest act changes
Jun 16, 2012 (AFP)
Bulgaria's president vetoed on Saturday a parliamentary decision to relax planning restrictions on forests to boost the development of ski resorts, his press of...
In Brazil, a teen's fight against deforestation starts to pay off
Jun 16, 2012 (AFP)
First came the coffee growers. Then the charcoal makers. And finally, when the last trees had been cleared, there came the cattlemen, who grazed their cows on t...
Global warming threat seen in fertile soil of northeastern US forests
Jun 15, 2012 (SPX)
Vast stores of carbon in U.S. forest soils could be released by rising global temperatures, according to a study by UC Irvine and other researchers in the onlin...
WWF slams Bulgaria's controversial forest act changes
Jun 14, 2012 (AFP)
Environmental group WWF on Thursday attacked the Bulgarian parliament's decision to relax planning restrictions on developing forests, farmland and other protec...
Indigenous peoples light up rival Rio gathering
Jun 13, 2012 (AFP)
With black stripes painted on their faces and wearing ornate feather headdresses, scores of indigenous Brazilians set up camp Wednesday and promised to light up...
Cocoa: Sweet remedy for Amazon deforestation?
Jun 13, 2012 (AFP)
A chocolate factory nestled deep in the Amazonian jungle in Brazil's northern state of Para offers a sweet antidote to rainforest deforestation. In many areas o...
EO consortium to help fight global deforestation
Jun 12, 2012 (SPX)
UK satellite imaging company DMCii has successfully led a multi-disciplinary consortium to win a place on the Department for International Development (DfID) Fo...
Teaching tree-thinking through touch
Jun 12, 2012 (SPX)
A pair of new studies by computer scientists, biologists, and cognitive psychologists at Harvard, Northwestern, Wellesley, and Tufts suggest that collaborative ...
Forests could be global warming factor
Jun 11, 2012 (UPI)
Fertile soils in U.S. forests could release vast amounts of carbon dioxide due to global warming, creating a "vicious cycle" of heat increases, scientists say. ...
Bamboo points way to green construction in Indonesia's Bali
Jun 10, 2012 (AFP)
Strong, light and cheaper than steel poles, bamboo is ubiquitous across Asia as scaffolding. So much so that in recognition of the material's versatility, the I...
Trees grow in Poland through free send-a-seedling drive
Jun 06, 2012 (AFP)
Polish software specialist Tomek Wawrzyczek was pleasantly surprised when he received a 50-centimetre (20-inch) tree seedling in the post. He promptly planted i...
Highway through Amazon worsens effects of climate change, provides mixed economic gains
Jun 05, 2012 (SPX)
Paving a highway across South America is providing lessons on the impact of road construction elsewhere. That's what a University of Florida researcher and his ...
Standing trees better than burning ones for carbon neutrality
Jun 05, 2012 (SPX)
The search for alternatives to fossil fuels has prompted growing interest in the use of wood, harvested directly from forests, as a carbon-neutral energy source...
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