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Pollen can protect mahogany from extinction

Apr 09, 2012 (SPX)

New research from the University of Adelaide could help protect one of the world's most globally threatened tree species - the big leaf mahogany - from extincti...

Trees tell their own story to satellites

Apr 04, 2012 (ESA)

Communications via satellite are changing the way the forest industry harvests trees. A new approach being tested by ESA combines satcoms and cellular services ...

Forest-destroying avalanches on the rise due to clear-cut logging

Apr 02, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists with the UBC Avalanche Research Group have been studying the impact of clear-cut logging on avalanche terrain in British Columbia. Understanding aval...

Scientists clone 'survivor' elm trees

Apr 02, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists at the University of Guelph have found a way to successfully clone American elm trees that have survived repeated epidemics of their biggest killer -...

Report: Natural teak forests in decline

Mar 30, 2012 (UPI)

Natural teak forests in Myanmar and elsewhere are declining and the quality of natural-grown teak wood is deteriorating worldwide, a United Nations report says....

Chinese timber company Sino-Forest seeks bankruptcy

Mar 30, 2012 (AFP)

China's Sino-Forest, a forestry firm publicly traded in Toronto and suspected of fraud, on Friday filed for bankruptcy protection and put itself up for sale. Si...

Indonesia land clearance 'wiping out' orangutans

Mar 28, 2012 (AFP)

Critically-endangered orangutans in a protected area of Indonesia will be wiped out by the end of the year if land clearing is not stopped, a coalition of envir...

Trace element plays major role in tropical forest nitrogen cycle

Mar 27, 2012 (SPX)

A new paper by researchers from the University of Georgia and Princeton University sheds light on the critical part played by a little-studied element, molybden...

Tests New Tool to Guide Reintroduction of the American Chestnut

Mar 23, 2012 (SPX)

The death of the American Chestnut due to an Asian bark fungus accidentally introduced to the United States had profound environmental and economic consequences...

Electricity from trees

Mar 23, 2012 (SPX)

Plants have long been known as the lungs of the earth, but a new finding has found they may also play a role in electrifying the atmosphere. Scientists have lon...

Mesquite trees displacing Southwestern grasslands

Mar 21, 2012 (SPX)

As the desert Southwest becomes hotter and drier, semi-arid grasslands are slowly being replaced by a landscape dominated by mesquite trees, such as Prosopis ve...

European grasslands challenge rainforests as the most species-rich spaces on Earth

Mar 21, 2012 (SPX)

The city of Manila holds the human world record for the most densely populated space and now an international team of ecologists are seeking the natural equival...

Tennessee's Urban Forests Valued in the Billions

Mar 19, 2012 (SPX)

Tennessee's urban forests, currently valued at about $80 billion, also provide almost $650 million in benefits such as carbon storage, pollution removal, and en...

Report Shows Forest Growth in North Outpacing Other Parts of Country

Mar 15, 2012 (SPX)

U.S. Forest Service scientists released an assessment that shows forest land has expanded in northern states during the past century despite a 130-percent popul...

15-year study: When it comes to creating wetlands, Mother Nature is in charge

Mar 13, 2012 (SPX)

Fifteen years of studying two experimental wetlands has convinced Bill Mitsch that turning the reins over to Mother Nature makes the most sense when it comes to...

EU-funded study underlines importance of Congo Basin for global climate and biodiversity

Mar 13, 2012 (SPX)

With its 1.7 billion square kilometres, an area equivalent to 5 times the size of Germany, the Congo Basin forest is the world's second largest tropical forest....

Sturdy Scandinavian conifers survived Ice Age

Mar 08, 2012 (SPX)

Until now, it was presumed that the last glacial period denuded the Scandinavian landscape of trees until a gradual return of milder weather began and melted aw...

Protecting living fossil trees

Mar 08, 2012 (SPX)

Scientists are working to protect living fossil trees in Fiji from the impact of climate change with cutting-edge DNA sequencing technology. Dr Peter Prentis, f...

Oldest fossilized forest revealed

Mar 08, 2012 (SPX)

An international team, including a Cardiff University researcher, who previously found evidence of the Earth's earliest tree, has gone one step further. The res...

Study shows earthworms to blame for decline of ovenbirds in northern Midwest forests

Mar 08, 2012 (SPX)

A recent decline in ovenbirds (Seiurus aurocapilla), a ground-nesting migratory songbird, in forests in the northern Midwest United States is being linked by sc...