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In forests, past disturbances obscure warming impacts
Mar 08, 2012 (SPX)
Past disturbances, such as logging, can obscure the effects of climate change on forest ecosystems. So reports a study just published in the Proceedings of the ...
Brazil's Rousseff urged to veto new forestry code
Mar 07, 2012 (AFP)
Environmentalists and small farmers marched outside the National Congress Wednesday to urge President Dilma Rousseff to veto changes to the country's forestry c...
Floor of oldest forest discovered in Schoharie County
Mar 05, 2012 (SPX)
Scientists from Binghamton University and Cardiff University, and New York State Museum researchers, and have reported the discovery of the floor of the world's...
Paper giant 'pulping protected Indonesian trees'
Mar 01, 2012 (AFP)
Environmental group Greenpeace accused one of the world's biggest paper companies Thursday of illegally logging internationally protected trees on Indonesia's l...
Penn researcher helps discover and characterize a 300-million-year-old forest
Feb 23, 2012 (SPX)
Pompeii-like, a 300-million-year-old tropical forest was preserved in ash when a volcano erupted in what is today northern China. A new study by University of P...
UN recognizes US Girl Scouts for palm oil effort
Feb 09, 2012 (AFP)
The United Nations Thursday recognized two US teens as International Forest Heroes for their efforts to cut the use of Southeast Asia palm oil, production of wh...
WWF urges Bulgaria to drop forest law changes
Feb 07, 2012 (AFP)
Environmental pressure group WWF urged Bulgaria on Tuesday to withdraw planned changes to its forestry legislation which would relax rules on building ski runs ...
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