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Using a data cube to monitor forest loss in the Amazon

Mar 08, 2023 (ESA)

Millions of gigabytes of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data are acquired both day and night, regardless of cloud cover, haze, smoke or aerosols, allowing defor...

France, NGOs pledge 100 mn euros to protect tropical forests

Mar 03, 2023 (AFP)

The French leader unveiled the new outlay at the close of the One Forest Summit in Gabon on Thursday, saying he wanted "to put natural capital at the heart of o...

Boreal forest fires a 'time bomb of carbon emissions

Mar 02, 2023 (AFP)

"Boreal forests could be a time bomb of carbon, and the recent increases in wildfire emissions we see make me worry the clock is ticking," said Steven Davis, on...

Gabonese village fights to save forest from logging

Mar 01, 2023 (AFP)

Red clay is daubed on everyone's foreheads enabling them "to connect to the ancestors, and warn them of our coming," says Ibaho. With that accomplished, the 43-...

Tree count in Africa drylands could improve conservation: study

Mar 01, 2023 (AFP)

The number of trees in the vast region -- the count came to nearly 10 billion -- has not been known up to now, and the new data could prove crucial for slowing ...

Fighting for their lives: the world's forests in figures

Feb 28, 2023 (AFP)

But they are in critical danger. As politicians, including French President Emmanuel Macron, prepare to descend on the West African nation of Gabon for an inter...

Carbon credits: a contested tool to fight deforestation

Feb 27, 2023 (AFP)

However, recent scandals have cast a shadow over the carbon credit industry, revealing a landscape rife with opportunities for greenwashing. Walt Disney, JP Mor...

Engineered wood grows stronger while trapping carbon dioxide

Feb 27, 2023 (SPX)

Structural materials like steel or cement come at a high cost both in dollars and carbon dioxide emissions; building construction and use accounts for an estima...

War-weary Yemenis fell trees for fuel, cash

Feb 26, 2023 (AFP)

"We started cutting trees and selling them because we have no other way of making a living," said Hussein Abdulqawi from a thinning forest on the outskirts of T...

Brazil moves on illegal mines in Indigenous Yanomami territory

Feb 25, 2023 (AFP)

From above, heavily armed police and officials from the Ibama environmental agency spot a camp: a brown patch of deforested land in the middle of the vast green...

Worst-ever February rainforest data for Brazilian Amazon

Feb 24, 2023 (AFP)

Surveillance satellites had detected 209 square kilometers (80.6 square miles) of forest destroyed,, according to the INPE space research institute's DETER moni...

Bosnian furniture sector spurs economic growth

Feb 23, 2023 (AFP)

The Bosnian furniture industry has seen steady growth, punctuated by an unexpected boom during the Covid-19 pandemic as supply chains in China ground to a halt,...

Hidden Colombia canyon transformed from rebel route to tourist draw

Feb 21, 2023 (AFP)

But today tourists bob happily down it in multi-colored inflatables, accompanied by birdsong and the rush of water. The Guape Canyon, a 35-meter (115-foot) deep...

Madrid drops tree-culling plan after protest

Feb 20, 2023 (AFP)

The announcement comes after demonstrators packed a park in Madrid on Saturday in a protest called by Spanish green group Ecologists in Action. Organisers said ...

Protesters hit streets over Madrid tree-culling plans

Feb 18, 2023 (AFP)

The work will involve cutting down 1,027 trees in a southwestern area known as Madrid Rio, the regional government has said, angering ecologists and local resid...

New hope for forests of ancient Athens' silver hills

Feb 15, 2023 (AFP)

Now an ancient forest south of the Greek capital is finally to be revived having suffered catastrophe after catastrophe. In the fifth century BC, Lavrio was hom...

Major firms not doing enough to curb deforestation: report

Feb 15, 2023 (AFP)

The report comes just months after countries reached a historic agreement to protect 30 percent of the world's land and seas by 2030 at UN biodiversity talks la...

Uprooted: Amazonian Siekopai people battle for return to ancestral land

Feb 15, 2023 (AFP)

But the feathered crowns and animal tooth necklaces are now stored away for special occasions as the Siekopai live scattered between villages straddling the Ecu...

Do forest trees really talk through underground fungi

Feb 14, 2023 (SPX)

The concept is so intriguing, it's taken root in popular media - even being raised in the popular Apple TV show Ted Lasso - and been dubbed the "wood-wide web,"...

A second chance to protect wetlands

Feb 13, 2023 (SPX)

While wetland conversion and degradation has slowed globally, it continues apace in some regions, such as Indonesia, where large swaths of land are being cleare...