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'Missing' Borneo radio host says he is in hiding
Jun 04, 2012 (AFP)
A presenter for a London-based radio service critical of the government of Malaysia's Sarawak state who was reported missing has said he is safe but in hiding o...
New study reports rise in community land rights in tropical forests; most laws unenforced
Jun 01, 2012 (SPX)
New research released by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) shows that hundreds of millions of forest peoples in tropical nations have, in the last 20 ye...
Activist radio host reported missing on Borneo
Jun 01, 2012 (AFP)
A presenter for a London-based radio service critical of the government of Malaysia's Sarawak state has gone missing, the station and opposition figures said Fr...
Greenpeace says KFC boxes destroy Indonesia forests
May 30, 2012 (AFP)
Greenpeace on Wednesday accused global fastfood chain KFC of using paper packaging made using wood from Indonesian rainforests which it said was endangering the...
Beetle-infested Pine Trees Contribute to Air Pollution and Haze in Forests
May 28, 2012 (SPX)
The hordes of bark beetles that have bored their way through more than six billion trees in the western United States and British Columbia since the 1990s do mo...
Beetle-infested pine trees contribute more to air pollution and haze in forests
May 28, 2012 (SPX)
The hordes of bark beetles that have bored their way through more than 6 billion trees in the western U.S. and British Columbia since the 1990s do more than dam...
Forest diversity from Canada to the sub-tropics influenced by family proximity
May 28, 2012 (SPX)
How species diversity is maintained is a fundamental question in biology. In a new study, a team of Indiana University biologists has shown for the first time t...
Greenpeace blocks Brazil port over Amazon law
May 26, 2012 (AFP)
Greenpeace temporarily blocked a freighter from being loaded at a northern Brazilian port Saturday in protest over a partial presidential veto of a land-use bil...
Cambodian forest campaigners fight rampant logging
May 25, 2012 (AFP)
Frustrated by government inaction, Cambodian citizen patrollers are risking their lives to take on the country's illegal loggers in a bid to save their shrinkin...
Brazil leader vetoes parts of law opening up Amazon
May 25, 2012 (AFP)
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff Friday vetoed parts of a new forestry code that environmentalists say would lead to further deforestation in the Amazon, home...
Hacking code of leaf vein architecture solves mysteries, allows predictions of past climate
May 25, 2012 (SPX)
UCLA life scientists have discovered new laws that determine the construction of leaf vein systems as leaves grow and evolve. These easy-to-apply mathematical r...
Rousseff under pressure to veto Brazil's new forest code
May 24, 2012 (AFP)
Activists on Thursday said they handed Brazil's president a petition with nearly two million signatures urging her to veto a new forestry code that could result...
Indonesia's rapid deforestation continues?
May 24, 2012 (UPI)
Indonesia needs to address loopholes in its moratorium on deforestation, Greenpeace said. The two-year moratorium, announced last May by Indonesian President Su...
UF study finds logging of tropical forests needn't devastate environment
May 22, 2012 (SPX)
Harvesting tropical forests for timber may not be the arch-enemy of conservation that it was once assumed to be, according to a new study led by a University of...
Brazil fights illegal logging to protect Amazon natives
May 21, 2012 (AFP)
Brazil said Monday it was working hard to stop illegal logging in Amazon rainforest land inhabited by the ethnic Awa people, a group said to be threatened with ...
Brazil's threatened Awa tribe outnumbered, group says
May 17, 2012 (AFP)
Brazilian authorities have admitted that the Amazon's Awa, "Earth's most threatened tribe," are outnumbered 10 to one in just one of their reserves, Survival In...
Model Forecasts Long-Term Impacts of Forest Land-Use Decisions
May 16, 2012 (SPX)
drive to develop crops for use as biofuel, continues to raise questions about additional uses of forest land. A cutting edge computer model developed at North C...
Time, place and how wood is used are factors in carbon emissions from deforestation
May 16, 2012 (SPX)
A new study from the University of California, Davis, provides a deeper understanding of the complex global impacts of deforestation on greenhouse gas emissions...
Agroforestry is not rocket science but it might save DPR Korea
May 08, 2012 (SPX)
There is more going on in DPR Korea than rocket science: local people in collaboration with natural resources scientists are taking control of their food supply...
Handful of heavyweight trees per acre are forest champs
May 07, 2012 (SPX)
Big trees three or more feet in diameter accounted for nearly half the biomass measured at a Yosemite National Park site, yet represented only one percent of th...
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