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Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon down 22% in a year

Nov 09, 2023 (AFP)

Satellite monitoring found 9,001 square kilometers (3,475 square miles) of forest cover was destroyed in the Brazilian Amazon from August 2022 to July 2023, acc...

Desert Turkmenistan plants 470,000 trees

Nov 06, 2023 (AFP)

Since coming to power last year, Turkmen President Serdar Berdymukhamedov has advanced an intense campaign to promote himself and honour his father -- ex-presid...

Indonesian tribe at risk of losing homeland after court ruling: NGOs

Nov 03, 2023 (AFP)

The Awyu tribe, whose roughly 20,000 members rely on the land for their subsistence, had sought to freeze the operations of PT Indo Asiana Lestari (PT IAL) in t...

Oman revives CO2-busting mangroves as climate threat lurks

Oct 31, 2023 (AFP)

Standing in the leafy reserve, shielded from the fierce sun, she says the Al-Qurm forest's 80 protected hectares (197 acres) of mangroves could lock away thousa...

New study finds hidden trees across Europe: A billion tons of biomass is overlooked today

Oct 30, 2023 (SPX)

Trees isolate carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, benefit wildlife, and biodiversity and make us humans happy. Perhaps you're lucky enough to have trees in your...

International summit in Congo mulls future of tropical forests

Oct 26, 2023 (AFP)

The meeting of experts got underway in the Republic of Congo's capital, and will move on to the ministerial level on Friday. Heads of state will hold talks in B...

Reclaiming land stolen in heart of Guatemalan reserve

Oct 26, 2023 (AFP)

Hacking away in the blazing sun, Acosta is tired, but hopeful. "Pasture is our biggest challenge," the 35-year-old forest resident told AFP, speaking about the ...

'Time bomb': Tree-killing bugs threaten France's lush forests

Oct 26, 2023 (AFP)

Now French authorities are battling an invasion of beetles that are devouring the weakened pines of La Teste-de-Buch, in the southwestern region of Gironde. "Th...

Global Witness names Chinese firm for illegal logging in DR Congo

Oct 24, 2023 (AFP)

Using satellite imagery, the NGO reported that despite Chinese-owned Congo King Baisheng Forestry Development's logging concessions being suspended by the count...

World 'failing' on pledge to stop deforestation by 2030

Oct 24, 2023 (AFP)

In 2021, leaders from over 100 countries and territories -- representing the vast majority of the world's forests -- pledged to stop and reverse forest loss by ...

Brazil president vetoes bill limiting Indigenous land claims

Oct 21, 2023 (AFP)

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will veto a core stipulation of the bill which would have only recognized Indigenous peoples' right to claim territories the...

Race to save the Amazon leaves out Brazil's crucial savanna

Oct 20, 2023 (AFP)

Missio, a beaming grandmother named one of the most powerful women in agriculture by Forbes Brasil, remembers the surprised reactions when her poor southern fam...

Deforestation caused by rubber vastly underestimated: study

Oct 18, 2023 (AFP)

Using satellite data and cloud computing, scientists said they compiled the first detailed accounting of deforestation for rubber production in Southeast Asia -...

How Belize became a poster child for 'debt-for-nature' swaps

Oct 16, 2023 (AFP)

"We lost approximately 14 percent of GDP," Prime Minister John Antonio Briceno told AFP in an interview. Nearly a third of the workforce of the country's 400,00...

Kenya court blocks lifting of logging ban

Oct 12, 2023 (AFP)

In July, President William Ruto ordered the lifting of the near six-year moratorium despite the concerns of environmentalists, saying it was aimed at creating j...

Younger trees champion carbon capture

Oct 09, 2023 (ESA)

To better understand the complexities of our climate system and predict the effects of change, scientists need to be able to account for carbon storage. However...

Deforestation down in Brazil's Amazon

Oct 06, 2023 (AFP)

However, it hit new highs in the tropical savannah region known as the Cerrado, south of the Amazon, which has been hit by incursions from farming companies. So...

Boreal and temperate forests now main global carbon sinks

Oct 04, 2023 (SPX)

Tropical forests, which are older and degraded by deforestation, fire and drought, are nearly carbon neutral. The findings, published in Nature Geoscience, high...

Carbon-capture tree plantations threaten tropical biodiversity for little gain

Oct 04, 2023 (SPX)

"Despite the broad range of ecosystem functions and services provided by tropical ecosystems, society has reduced value of these ecosystems to just one metric-c...

Is planting trees to combat climate change 'complete nonsense'?

Oct 03, 2023 (AFP)

The billionaire philanthropist was being probed on how he offsets his carbon emissions and insisted he avoids "some of the less proven approaches." The claim th...