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Progressive climate change: desertification threatens Mediterranean forests
May 03, 2023 (SPX)
Mediterranean forests are not only hotspots of biodiversity, but they also provide critical ecosystem services. They protect against soil erosion, regulate the ...
Nuances of the forest-water connection
May 02, 2023 (SPX)
The research team focused on the forest-water connection in the southern U.S., a complex, heterogeneous region and, unfortunately, an ideal place for studying f...
Libya green group battles to save remaining forests
Apr 28, 2023 (AFP)
The "Friends of the Tree" group works to raise awareness about green areas around the capital Tripoli that are quickly disappearing because of drought, human ac...
World's 'oldest' tree able to reveal planet's secrets
Apr 26, 2023 (AFP)
Known as the "Great Grandfather," the trunk of this tree measuring four meters (13 feet) in diameter and 28 meters tall is also believed to contain scientific i...
Indigenous Brazilians demand more land reserves
Apr 25, 2023 (AFP)
They came from all around the country to Brasilia for their 19th annual gathering under the slogan "Terra Livre (free land) -- the first since the return to pow...
EU lawmakers adopt ban on imports speeding deforestation
Apr 19, 2023 (AFP)
The legislation, which has to get final approval from the European Union's member countries, would apply to coffee, cocoa, soy, timber, palm oil, cattle, printi...
California's beetle-killed, carbon-storing pine forests may not come back
Apr 10, 2023 (SPX)
"Forests store huge amounts of atmospheric carbon, so when western pine beetle infestations kill off millions of trees, that carbon dioxide goes back into the a...
Despite Lula's promises, deforestation still rampant in Brazil
Apr 07, 2023 (AFP)
Those figures show the scale of the task facing leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, just 100 days into his return to power. Satellite images from the I...
Bold talk, slow walk as Brazil's Lula sets out to save Amazon
Apr 06, 2023 (AFP)
Now, environmentalists say it is time for him to walk the walk -- and for the international community to put its money where its mouth is by ramping up funding ...
Why are forests turning brown in summer
Apr 02, 2023 (SPX)
It was as though autumn had arrived in July. Anyone hiking through the Swiss or German forests in the summer of 2018 could literally see how the hot, dry weathe...
Dominican border wall threatens environment, mangroves
Mar 31, 2023 (AFP)
The Dominican government wants to build a 160 kilometer (100 mile) concrete fence along the 380 kilometer border with Haiti to prevent illegal migrants from ent...
Brazil Indigenous group fights to save endangered evergreen
Mar 29, 2023 (AFP)
The Xokleng Indigenous group, who live on a threatened reservation in south Brazil, depend on the Araucaria angustifolia tree for food, use its medicinal proper...
Bangladesh bans plastics in world's largest mangrove forest
Mar 28, 2023 (AFP)
The Sundarbans forest straddles the Bangladeshi coastline and is home to some of the world's rarest creatures, including the Bengal tiger and the Irrawaddy dolp...
Norway vows to continue supporting Brazil's Amazon fund
Mar 22, 2023 (AFP)
Barth Eide said Norway, which contributes more than 90 percent of the Amazon Fund, would also help Brazil find new donors. The fund is worth more than three bil...
Mountain forests disappearing at alarming rate: study
Mar 17, 2023 (AFP)
Mountain forests covered 1.1 billion hectares (2.71 billion acres) of the planet in 2000, the authors of the study published in the Cell Press journal One Earth...
NASA to measure forest health from above
Mar 13, 2023 (SPX)
NASA research scientist Jon Ranson is working to improve new technologies for studying trees from above, so future Earth-observing missions can more accurately ...
Climate-stressed Iraq says will plant 5 million trees
Mar 12, 2023 (AFP)
Oil-rich but war-battered Iraq suffers from extreme summer heat, frequent droughts, desertification and regular dust storms, problems that are all exacerbated b...
Record deforestation in Brazilian Amazon in February
Mar 10, 2023 (AFP)
Satellite monitoring detected 322 square kilometers (124 square miles) of forest cover destroyed in Brazil's share of the world's biggest rainforest last month,...
'More important than rainforests': UK pioneers peat partnership
Mar 09, 2023 (AFP)
Deploying a tank-like vehicle, helicopter, digger and a dozen-strong team building dams and other defences, the "Ridge Graham" project will return the site to i...
Brazil's new Indigenous affairs chief sets sights on illegal gold
Mar 09, 2023 (AFP)
But she faces one of her biggest challenges yet in her new job as the first native person to lead Brazil's Indigenous affairs agency, FUNAI, which she said was ...
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