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EcoMatcher brings tree planting to Microsoft Teams

Nov 10, 2022 (SPX)

The integration helps Teams users contribute to reforesting the planet where it is most needed, while providing a moment to relax in nature virtually. "We have ...

Colonists nibble at Gran Chaco, South America's other big forest

Nov 08, 2022 (AFP)

The Gran Chaco indigenous forest that spans one million square kilometers (386,000 square miles) across Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia is at the mercy of raven...

Colombia, Venezuela launch COP27 call to save Amazon

Nov 08, 2022 (AFP)

"We are determined to revitalise the Amazon rainforest... (in order) to offer humanity a significant victory in the battle against climate change," Petro said a...

No 'easy road' for Brazil's Lula, as world awaits Amazon action

Nov 03, 2022 (AFP)

"The Amazon is so damaged, so deforested. We need a plan," said Luciana Gatti of Brazil's national space agency, which tracks the health of the rainforest. Lula...

Bye-Bye Biomass: forest monitoring satellite departs for final testing before launch

Nov 03, 2022 (ESA)

The comprehensive environmental test programme for the spacecraft will include thermal vacuum tests, mechanical vibration, acoustic and electromagnetic compatib...

Germany says ready to resume Brazil deforestation aid after Lula victory

Nov 02, 2022 (AFP)

"We are in principle prepared to release the frozen funds," said a development ministry spokesman in Berlin. "We will now talk to the transition team in Brazil ...

Land-based climate plans 'unrealistic': report

Nov 01, 2022 (AFP)

Almost 200 nations will begin high-stakes UN climate talks in Egypt from November 6, as increasing damage from floods, heat waves and droughts are being felt ac...

Norway to resume Brazil aid halted over deforestation

Oct 31, 2022 (AFP)

"We note that during the campaign he (Lula) emphasised the conservation of the Amazon forest and the protection of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon," Norway...

Deep in Brazilian Amazon, Ticuna tribe celebrates Lula victory

Oct 31, 2022 (AFP)

Wearing traditional face paint and feather headdresses, they suddenly explode into cheers and set off fireworks: veteran leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has b...

'I was counting dead trees': Scientists join climate crisis fight

Oct 31, 2022 (AFP)

But that was where the 34-year-old French scientist found herself after giving up her job last year to focus instead on campaigning for more action on climate c...

The Amazon: a burning question absent in Brazil vote

Oct 28, 2022 (AFP)

In Western capitals, the plight of the world's largest rainforest is seen as a key issue in Brazil's election, with much at stake for a world scrambling to curb...

For blight-ridden American chestnut tree, rebirth may be in offing

Oct 25, 2022 (AFP)

"These look like death," said Vasiliy Lakoba, research director for the American Chestnut Foundation (ACF), which has been working since the 1980s to resurrect ...

Brazilian suspect in murder of British journalist, Amazon expert, granted house arrest

Oct 25, 2022 (AFP)

Ruben da Silva Villar, also known as "Colombia," was released last Friday, according to local press reports, after a ruling made three days earlier and which AF...

LED tech boosts saplings, hopes for UK net zero bid

Oct 22, 2022 (AFP)

The trays of young trees stacked nine metres (30 feet) high inside the James Hutton Institute near Dundee in eastern Scotland are budding proof for Hay and othe...

Protecting very old trees can help mitigate climate change

Oct 20, 2022 (SPX)

"Ancient trees are unique habitats for the conservation of threatened species because they can resist and buffer climate warming," write the authors, including ...

Treemetrics signs 1.2M euro contract with ESA

Oct 17, 2022 (SPX)

The global demand for forest carbon credits is growing larger every year, having nearly quadrupled in 2021, driven by an increasing desire from companies and in...

Guinea resumes logging despite deforestation

Oct 14, 2022 (AFP)

Tree felling will be restricted to local use and the export of timber remain banned, the council of ministers said in a statement issued Thursday night. The Env...

Amazon deforestation breaks Sept record; Scientists reach tallest tree found in Amazon

Oct 07, 2022 (AFP)

In the latest worrying news on the rainforest, satellite monitoring showed 1,455 square kilometers (562 square miles) of forest cover was destroyed in the Brazi...

Egypt replants mangrove 'treasure' to fight climate change impacts

Oct 07, 2022 (AFP)

After decades of destruction that saw the mangroves cleared, all that remained were fragmented patches totalling some 500 hectares (1,200 acres), the size of on...

Romania cracks down on illegal logging

Sep 28, 2022 (AFP)

Almost 150 raids were staged at business premises, private accommodation and forest management organisations, investigators said in a press release. The raids a...