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Pacific kelp forests are far older that we thought
Jan 16, 2024 (SPX)
But a new study shows that kelp flourished off the Northwest Coast more than 32 million years ago, long before the appearance of modern groups of marine mammals...
Soil fungi may help explain the global gradient in forest diversity
Jan 09, 2024 (SPX)
Forests on Earth exhibit a marked gradient from the equator toward the poles: Tropical forests near the equator tend to include a large number of different spec...
Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon halved in 2023
Jan 05, 2024 (AFP)
However, the news was far less bright from the crucial Cerrado savanna below the rainforest, where clear-cutting hit a new annual record last year, rising by 43...
In Colombia, illegally felled timber repurposed to help bees
Dec 28, 2023 (AFP)
The illegally harvested wood is used in the Santander department's "Timber Returns Home" initiative, building hives since 2021 to house the little pollinators s...
'Doom for forests': fears over new Cambodia land grants
Dec 22, 2023 (AFP)
He is one of hundreds of thousands affected by economic land concessions (ELCs) -- land grants to businesses that experts say have driven deforestation and disp...
A new map showing all above-ground biomass in the Brazilian Amazon
Dec 21, 2023 (SPX)
Results of the study are reported in an article published in Scientific Data, a Springer Nature journal. The study was supported by FAPESP and the Amazon Fund. ...
Drones help solve forest carbon capture riddle
Dec 18, 2023 (AFP)
It moves back and forth atop the rich canopy, transmitting photos to be knitted into a 3D model that reveals the woodland's health and helps estimate how much c...
Minding the gap on tropical forest carbon
Dec 08, 2023 (ESA)
The research, published recently in the Carbon Balance and Management journal, describes why there can be a gap between carbon flux estimates based on data from...
Rent-a-tree firm helps Londoners have a sustainable Christmas
Dec 08, 2023 (AFP)
With a rise in popularity of artificial trees for environmental reasons, Londoners who prefer a real Christmas tree can now be equally sustainable. Instead of t...
Deforestation hits record low in Brazilian Amazon in November
Dec 08, 2023 (AFP)
Satellite monitoring detected 201 square kilometers (78 square miles) of forest cover destroyed in Brazil's share of the world's biggest rainforest last month, ...
'It destroys everything': Amazon community fights carbon credit project
Dec 06, 2023 (AFP)
In a remote corner of the Amazon, far from COP28 in Dubai where world leaders will thrash out the final parameters for a reform of the global carbon credit syst...
New study offers cautious hope about the resilience of redwoods
Dec 04, 2023 (SPX)
The study, published in Nature: Plants, examined recovery after the catastrophic CZU Lightning Complex Fire, which began in August 2020 and burned thousands of ...
France pays Congo, Papua New Guinea $150 million to save forests
Dec 02, 2023 (AFP)
President Emmanuel Macron said he hoped to conclude a similar $60 million deal with DR Congo as he announced the partnerships at the UN's COP28 climate talks in...
New suspect in murder of Honduras environmental leader
Dec 02, 2023 (AFP)
The coordinator of an Indigenous council that opposed the construction of a controversial hydroelectric dam, Caceres was shot dead in the western village of La ...
Plants can absorb more CO2 from human activities than previously expected
Nov 21, 2023 (SPX)
Despite this New research suggests plants might be able to absorb more CO2 from human activities than previously expected finding, the environmental scientists ...
Clearing mangroves makes 'muddification' worse
Nov 21, 2023 (SPX)
The study focussed on New Zealand, where widespread deforestation and farming was begun by European settlers in the late 19th Century increasing the amount of s...
Forests could absorb much more carbon, but does it matter?
Nov 13, 2023 (AFP)
For Thomas Crowther, an author of the assessment, the answer is a resounding yes. "I absolutely see this study as a cause for hope," the professor at ETH Zurich...
Kenyans brave heavy rain to plant trees
Nov 13, 2023 (AFP)
President William Ruto has vowed to plant 15 billion trees by 2032 in a bid to boost Kenya's forest cover following the worst drought to ravage the Horn of Afri...
Lightning identified as the leading cause of wildfires in boreal forests, threatening carbon storage
Nov 10, 2023 (SPX)
The study used machine learning to predict the dominant source of wildfire ignitions - human or 'natural' lightning ignitions - in all world regions. Reference ...
Forests with multiple tree species are 70% more effective as carbon sinks than monoculture forests
Nov 10, 2023 (SPX)
Although the benefits of diverse forest systems are well known, many countries' restoration commitments are focused on establishing monoculture plantations. Giv...
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