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Court reverses Ruto's lifting of logging ban in Kenya

Aug 02, 2023 (AFP)

The Environment and Land Court ordered a 14-day stay on Ruto's contentious repeal of a logging moratorium introduced in 2018 to curb the rapid disappearance of ...

Plans to plant billions of trees threatened by massive undersupply of seedlings

Aug 01, 2023 (SPX)

But new research shows a troubling bottleneck that could threaten these efforts: U.S. tree nurseries don't grow close to enough trees-nor have the species diver...

Coal versus forest: Turkish locals mobilised to save trees

Jul 31, 2023 (AFP)

Akbelen forest, located in the Milas district in the Aegean province of Mugla, has been occupied by local villagers as well as environmental activists for over ...

'Fire whirls' threaten Joshua tree desert in scorching US

Jul 31, 2023 (AFP)

Around 77,000 acres (31,000 hectares) have been scorched since the York Fire erupted on Friday, fuelled over the weekend by high winds and soaring temperatures....

Wild camping to be allowed in UK national park after appeal

Jul 31, 2023 (AFP)

A High Court judge ruled earlier this year that the public did not have the right to pitch tents overnight in Dartmoor National Park in Devon, going against a l...

How forests can cut carbon, restore ecosystems, and create jobs

Jul 28, 2023 (SPX)

At present, the most efficient and scalable GHG-removal strategy is the massive planting of trees through reforestation or afforestation - a "natural climate so...

Philippines top court orders re-arrest of suspect in activist killing

Jul 16, 2023 (AFP)

Joel Reyes, the former governor of the western island of Palawan, has been accused of masterminding the 2011 killing of Gerry Ortega, who used a radio show he h...

Why trees outcompete shrubs to shift upward?

Jul 14, 2023 (SPX)

Climatic warming is altering the structure and function of alpine ecosystems, including shifts of vegetation boundaries. The upward shift of alpine treelines, t...

Forest can adapt to climate change, but not quickly enough

Jul 12, 2023 (SPX)

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara and University of Utah sought to determine how our sylvan ecosystems might fare in the near future. The authors combined mathema...

Sri Lanka uproots 'last legume' tree to build highway

Jul 11, 2023 (AFP)

Transport Minister Bandula Gunawardana told reporters in Colombo that the cabinet had approved the removal of the tree. The Sri Lanka Legume (Crudia zeylanica) ...

Amazon neighbors act to save world's largest rainforest; Lula slashes Amazon deforestation

Jul 08, 2023 (AFP)

"To sustain the Amazon, according to science, we need to keep 80 percent of its forests standing and not manage to go beyond 20 percent deforestation, and unfor...

Amazon deforestation down sharply under Brazil's Lula: govt

Jul 06, 2023 (AFP)

The 33.6 percent drop is based on satellite images captured by the National Institute of Space Research, which said that from January through June a total of 2,...

Turning over a new leaf, Colombian ranchers plant trees

Jul 05, 2023 (AFP)

Under an experiment started in 2020, dozens of Guaviare farmers have moved their cattle to smaller enclosures and implemented rotational pasture, returning vast...

Nestle steps up reforestation project in Ivory Coast

Jul 02, 2023 (AFP)

Ivory Coast is the world's largest cocoa producer, at 40 percent of the global market. The west African country had 16 million hectares of forest in the 1960s -...

Kenya's Ruto lifts six-year logging ban

Jul 02, 2023 (AFP)

Ruto said the move was "long overdue" and was aimed at creating jobs and opening up sectors of the economy that rely on forest products. "We can't have mature t...

Football pitch of tropical forest lost every 5 seconds

Jun 27, 2023 (AFP)

That is nearly a football pitch of mature tropical trees felled or burned every five seconds, night and day, and 10 percent more than the year before, according...

Tropical deforestation up 10% in 2022 releasing billions of tons of carbon

Jun 27, 2023 (UPI)

The area of primary tropical forest cut or burnt down in 2022 grew by 10% from 2021 to 15,830 square miles, pumping out 3 billion tons of CO2 or as much as Indi...

Green growth in Amazon would bring Brazil billions: study

Jun 20, 2023 (AFP)

By expanding sustainable industries and transitioning to low-carbon agriculture, the Amazon region could lead the way in turning Brazil into a green-economy pow...

Latin America bank eyes finance 'umbrella' role for Amazon rainforest

Jun 20, 2023 (AFP)

Stepping up the involvement of international financial organisations in the fight against climate change will be at key issue at a summit hosted by French Presi...

With bows and spears, Indigenous 'warriors' defend the Amazon

Jun 14, 2023 (AFP)

With bows, arrows and spears, young men of the Sao Luis village patrol the Javari River by motorboat in the valley of the same name. They call themselves the "W...