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Green groups say Indonesia deforestation ban 'weak'
May 03, 2012 (AFP)
A coalition of green groups in Indonesia on Thursday criticised a moratorium on deforestation as "weak", saying the year-long ban still excludes large tracts of...
Do urban 'heat islands' hint at trees of future?
Apr 27, 2012 (SPX)
City streets can be mean, but somewhere near Brooklyn, a tree grows far better than its country cousins, due to chronically elevated city heat levels, says a ne...
Bolivian natives begin new march in road protest
Apr 27, 2012 (AFP)
Some 500 indigenous people began a mammoth march Friday from the Amazon region to the capital La Paz to protest government plans to build a highway through thei...
Rousseff pressed to veto Brazil forestry law
Apr 26, 2012 (AFP)
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff came under enormous pressure Thursday from environmentalists to veto a new forestry bill they fear will speed up deforestatio...
Palms reveal the significance of climate change for tropical biodiversity
Apr 26, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists at Aarhus University have spearheaded research results that shed new light on the processes forming the composition of species assemblages in the tro...
Brazil Congress approves controversial forestry bill
Apr 26, 2012 (AFP)
Brazil's Congress has approved a controversial forestry code reform that environmentalists say provides amnesty for illegal logging and opens up vast swathes of...
Anti-logging activist shot dead in Cambodian forest
Apr 26, 2012 (AFP)
A prominent Cambodian activist was fatally shot in a remote forest Thursday while documenting illegal logging in a clash that also killed a military police offi...
Brazil to boost military presence to protect Amazon wealth
Apr 26, 2012 (AFP)
Brazil will boost its military presence in the Amazon region to protect its huge natural resources from any external threat, Defense Minister Celso Amorim told ...
Challenges hinder agroforestry research, policy formulation and adoption in Indonesia
Apr 25, 2012 (SPX)
Indonesia, the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the world, most of which come from deforestation, is setting out to reverse the trend. One of the wa...
Colin Firth appeals to save Brazil's threatened Awa tribe
Apr 25, 2012 (AFP)
Britain's Oscar-winning actor Colin Firth on Wednesday launched a major drive by Survival International to save "Earth's most threatened tribe," the Awa of the ...
Improved Loblolly Pines Better for the Environment
Apr 24, 2012 (SPX)
More than 50 years of genetics work to increase loblolly pine production in the Southeast has improved the trees' ability to act as carbon sinks that mitigate c...
Saving forests? Take a leaf from insurance industry's book
Apr 24, 2012 (SPX)
A group of environmental scientists say a problem-ridden economic model designed to slow deforestation can be improved by applying key concepts from the insuran...
Eight native Mexicans shot dead defending forest
Apr 19, 2012 (AFP)
Eight members of an indigenous group that took on armed gangs and illegal loggers nearly a year ago have been shot dead in a confrontation in western Mexico, of...
DMCii's detailed satellite imagery helps Brazil stamp out deforestation as it happens
Apr 17, 2012 (SPX)
Remote sensing solutions provider DMC International Imaging Ltd (DMCii) has signed a contract with Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) to deli...
UCSB Study Shows Forest Insects and Diseases Arrive in U.S. Via Imported Plants
Apr 12, 2012 (SPX)
The trade in live plants from around the world has become a major industry in the United States, with new imports now valued at more than $500 billion annually....
Scientists forecast forest carbon loss
Apr 11, 2012 (SPX)
When most people look at a forest, they see walking trails, deer yards, or firewood for next winter. But scientists at the Harvard Forest and Smithsonian Instit...
Russia decodes ancient dawn redwood DNA
Apr 11, 2012 (Voice of Russia)
A group of scientists from the Altay University became pioneers in decoding the DNA of ancient Metasequoia, known as dawn redwood. The remains of the plant were...
800-Year-Old Farmers Could Teach Us How to Protect the Amazon
Apr 11, 2012 (SPX)
In the face of mass deforestation of the Amazon, recent findings indicate that we could learn from its earliest inhabitants who managed their farmland sustainab...
Comparing growth around Yellowstone, Glacier and other national parks
Apr 10, 2012 (SPX)
The land around Yellowstone and Glacier national parks might look like it's filling up with people and houses, but it's nothing compared to the rate of developm...
Ancient Amazonians farmed without fire
Apr 10, 2012 (UPI)
Modern farmers in the Amazon region could take lessons in sustainability from the area's inhabitants of 800 years ago, scientists say. Research led by the Unive...
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