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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...
Climate change, pests threaten Mexico City's iconic palms
Aug 30, 2023 (AFP)
The Canary Island date palms, which are endemic to the Spanish archipelago off the coast of northwestern Africa, can sometimes live for more than 200 years. But...
Brazil high court resumes key Indigenous lands case
Aug 30, 2023 (AFP)
Hundreds of Indigenous protesters, many in traditional feather headdresses, rallied in the capital Brasilia as the court weighed the legality of the so-called "...
Voluntary deforestation carbon credits failing: study
Aug 29, 2023 (AFP)
Across nearly a score of offset projects examined in central Africa, South America and Southeast Asia, only 5.4 million out of 89 million credits -- about six p...
Calls to boost food security at DR Congo rainforest summit
Aug 29, 2023 (AFP)
Covering 1.62 million square kilometres (more than 625,000 square miles), the forests of central Africa represent the planet's second-largest carbon sink after ...
UN-backed deforestation carbon credits failing: study
Aug 25, 2023 (AFP)
Across nearly a score of UN-backed offset projects examined in central Africa, South America and Southeast Asia, only 5.4 million out of 89 million credits -- a...
In Colombia, a community wins fight to protect a slice of paradise
Aug 25, 2023 (AFP)
It took almost two decades, but a small community managed to sink the project, betting on a different development model to preserve their slice of paradise. In ...
Amazon emissions soared under Brazil's Bolsonaro: study
Aug 23, 2023 (AFP)
The world's biggest rainforest is a vital buffer against climate change, but studies show it has started emitting more carbon than it absorbs, pushed to a dange...
Tropical forests nearing critical temperatures thresholds
Aug 23, 2023 (AFP)
A tiny percentage of upper canopy leaves have already crossed that threshold, reaching temperatures so high -- above 47 degrees Celsius -- as to prevent photosy...
Canada to challenge latest US duties on softwood lumber
Aug 22, 2023 (AFP)
At the same time, Canada offered to try to negotiate terms with the United States to bring an end to the longstanding trade dispute that has often flared up ove...
Illegal logging turns Syria's forests into 'barren land'
Aug 20, 2023 (AFP)
Twelve years of conflict that led to a spike in illegal logging, along with the effects of climate change and other factors, have eroded Syria's greenery. The d...
'Mother Nature needs money,' Lula tells rich countries at summit
Aug 09, 2023 (AFP)
Vowing to act as a bloc in future climate negotiations, the eight South American countries that share the Amazon basin and nations from the Caribbean, Africa an...
Amazon nations launch alliance to fight deforestation at summit
Aug 09, 2023 (AFP)
The closely watched summit of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) adopted what host country Brazil called a "new and ambitious shared agenda" to s...
South American summit seeks roadmap to save Amazon
Aug 08, 2023 (AFP)
Brazilian officials have vowed to seek an ambitious roadmap to stop deforestation at the two-day meeting of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization in Belem,...
German drought prompts rethink for ancient palace park trees
Aug 08, 2023 (AFP)
The sprawling grounds with their manicured gardens in Potsdam southwest of Berlin are surrounded by a park filled with soaring, centuries-old giants that are no...
Relief and despair: repeal of logging ban divides Kenya
Aug 07, 2023 (AFP)
But conservationists were dismayed at the announcement in July by President William Ruto, who had cast himself as a champion of the environment, and made planti...
Lula to host S.American summit on saving the Amazon
Aug 05, 2023 (AFP)
The meeting of the eight-nation Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization on Tuesday and Wednesday in Belem, capital of the Amazon state of Para, will serve as som...
Brazil records 66% drop in Amazon deforestation in July
Aug 03, 2023 (AFP)
July typically marks the start of peak deforestation season, with the onset of drier weather in the Amazon -- making the drop all the more significant, as Brazi...
Lula says 'world must help' Brazil save the Amazon
Aug 02, 2023 (AFP)
"We know we have a responsibility to convince the world that investing is cheap if it's a matter of saving the rainforest," the veteran leftist told a breakfast...
The fight to save 'sacred' Carpathian forests from loggers
Aug 02, 2023 (AFP)
Forest engineer Gabriel Oltean has fought against this intense, often illegal logging with cameras that broadcast live on YouTube the incessant passage of woodc...
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