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Brazil Senate approves bill restricting Indigenous land rights

Sep 28, 2023 (AFP)

The so-called "time-frame argument" at the center of the controversy maintains that Indigenous peoples should not have the right to protected reservations on la...

Tree-hugging AI to the rescue of Brazilian Amazon

Sep 27, 2023 (AFP)

The boxes, named "curupiras" after a folkloric forest creature who preys on hunters and poachers, sport sensors and software trained "to recognize the sounds of...

How to tackle the global deforestation crisis

Sep 26, 2023 (SPX)

Deforestation is a major contributor to climate change, producing between 6 and 17 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to a 2009 study. Meanwh...

Scientists call for a tree planting drive to help tackle heatwaves

Sep 26, 2023 (SPX)

After a year of monitoring temperatures in four distinct areas* of Guildford, England, researchers found that nature-based locations-woodlands, grasslands, and ...

Ancient Amazonians intentionally created fertile dark earth

Sep 26, 2023 (SPX)

But over the years, archaeologists have dug up mysteriously black and fertile patches of ancient soils in hundreds of sites across the Amazon. This "dark earth"...

Petition against felling trees in historic Tokyo park area

Sep 25, 2023 (AFP)

Lush with trees donated to honour Emperor Meiji a century ago, Meiji Jingu Gaien offers respite and shade -- Japan saw its hottest recorded summer this year -- ...

Arson turns Amazon reforestation project to ashes

Sep 22, 2023 (AFP)

Then it went up in flames, allegedly torched by land-grabbers trying to reclaim the territory for cattle pasture. Launched in 2019 by environmental research gro...

Outcry stops building in 'world's largest greenbelt' around Toronto

Sep 21, 2023 (AFP)

The horseshoe-shaped 810,000-hectare ring of fertile farmlands, forests and wetlands edge Toronto and nearby cities that hug the north and west shores of Lake O...

Key Indigenous lands case resumes in Brazil high court

Sep 21, 2023 (AFP)

Hundreds of Indigenous demonstrators, many in traditional feather headdresses, rallied in Brasilia as the court weighed the legality of the so-called "time-fram...

Brazil court rules for Indigenous land rights in key case

Sep 21, 2023 (AFP)

Indigenous leaders in bright feather headdresses and body paint exploded in celebration outside the high court building in Brasilia as Justice Luiz Fux became t...

Scientists rediscover small Brazil tree, 185 years on

Sep 19, 2023 (AFP)

The tree, "Ilex sapiiformis," was found in the city of Igarassu, in Pernambuco state, by an expedition that spent six days combing the region in hopes of findin...

How trees influence cloud formation

Sep 15, 2023 (SPX)

According to the latest projections of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global climate will be 1.5 to 4.4 degrees Celsius warmer than p...

Two dead as police, illegal miners clash in Venezuelan Amazon

Sep 14, 2023 (AFP)

The defense ministry said 400 soldiers were deployed Wednesday to the Yapacana reserve to dismantle some 500 structures used in illegal gold mining and to evict...

Heat, drought, fires threaten Lebanon's northern forests

Sep 14, 2023 (AFP)

After a blistering and dry summer, residents of the mountainous Akkar region near the Syrian border are voicing fears about climate change and water scarcity. F...

Colombia deadliest country for green activists in 2022: report

Sep 12, 2023 (AFP)

In its annual review, Global Witness named 177 land and environmental defenders who had been killed in 2022 -- from the Amazon to the Philippines and Democratic...

Australia logging ban to create koala haven

Sep 12, 2023 (AFP)

Logging has been halted in 8,400 hectares (21,000 acres) of forest, home to 106 "koala hubs" that are highly populated by the marsupials, the New South Wales go...

Deforestation in Brazil Amazon falls, more Indigenous reserves approved

Sep 05, 2023 (AFP)

"In August, we had a reduction of 66.11 percent in deforestation" in Brazil's share of the world's biggest rainforest, Environment Minister Marina Silva told a ...

Helping or hindering? US scientists debate how to save giant sequoias

Sep 04, 2023 (AFP)

Now the US National Park Service (NPS) wants to give Mother Nature a helping hand, planting lab-grown seedlings it says will kick-start the return of these magn...

Malaysia's Forest City teeters over China property giant woes

Sep 03, 2023 (AFP)

Aimed at middle-class Chinese buyers, Forest City has weathered scant sales, Chinese currency controls, a pandemic shutdown and public anger at China's growing ...

DR Congo talks sound alarm for central African rainforest

Sep 01, 2023 (AFP)

Covering 1.6 million square kilometres (more than 625,000 square miles), the Congo Basin forest is known as "the second lungs of the planet" after the Amazon, a...