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Mexican mangroves have been capturing carbon for 5,000 years

Sep 22, 2022 (SPX)

Mangroves thrive in conditions most plants cannot tolerate, like salty coastal waters. Some species have air-conducting, vertical roots that act like snorkels w...

Brazil reports more Amazon fires so far this year than all of 2021

Sep 19, 2022 (AFP)

Satellite monitoring has detected 75,592 fires from January 1 to September 18, already higher than the 75,090 detected for all of last year, according to the Br...

Leading scientists develop space tech platform to track carbon in every tree

Sep 16, 2022 (SPX)

CTrees' consistent global dataset provides a nearly real-time picture of the carbon implications of forest conservation and restoration at the local, national, ...

MEPs toughen EU law on deforestation

Sep 13, 2022 (AFP)

The decision, voted 453 in favour and 57 against, fixes the European Parliament's stance ahead of negotiations that will take place with EU member states over "...

Indonesia, Norway ink deal to reward rainforest protection

Sep 12, 2022 (AFP)

Protecting trees is key to meeting climate goals but environmentalists blame Indonesia -- home to the world's third-largest rainforest area -- for a deforestati...

Scientists fight to protect DR Congo rainforest as threats increase

Sep 07, 2022 (AFP)

Spanning several countries in central Africa, the Congo Basin rainforest covers an immense area and is home to a dizzying array of species. But there are growin...

Scandals, Covid, deforestation: Brazil under Bolsonaro

Sep 05, 2022 (AFP)

Here is a recap of the defining moments of his presidency so far: - First far-right president - On October 28, 2018, Brazil elects Bolsonaro more than three dec...

Want to save carbon and land? Study suggests wooden cities

Aug 30, 2022 (AFP)

More than half of people globally currently live in cities and this proportion is set to rise markedly by 2050. According to some estimates, the infrastructure ...

Zapped survivors: Some tropical trees won't be defeated by lightning

Aug 29, 2022 (SPX)

Combining the expertise of lightning scientists and tropical field biologists -including Steve Yanoviak, a research associate at the Smithsonian Tropical Resear...

Heatwave triggers 'false autumn' in UK

Aug 24, 2022 (AFP)

Instead of green, many gardens, parks and woods are now a sea of orange, yellow, red and brown, with thick carpets of leaves on the ground. The early leaf fall ...

Carbon storage in harvested wood products

Aug 12, 2022 (SPX)

More than 90% of new single-family homes in the U.S. are built with wood. About 400,000 homes, apartment buildings, and other housing units are lost to floods a...

Scientists use acoustic soundscapes and EO data to assess health of the Amazon

Aug 12, 2022 (SPX)

Scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the University of Maryland, College Park, investigated how the acoustics of a for...

Even modest climate change imperils northern forests: study

Aug 10, 2022 (AFP)

Boreal forests cover much of Russia, Alaska and Canada and are a major carbon sink, but they are menaced by more frequent wildfires and invasive species outbrea...

Brazil economy minister renews spat with France over Amazon

Aug 10, 2022 (AFP)

Following in the footsteps of his boss, far-right President Jair Bolsonaro -- who mocked French First Lady Brigitte Macron's appearance amid a row with her husb...

Togo battles to save forests as poverty threatens reserves

Aug 04, 2022 (AFP)

For years, inhabitants of Ando-Kpomey village, around 65 kilometres (40 miles) north of Togo's capital Lome, have anarchically cut down trees for firewood and c...

Colombian deforestation policy 'failure' a headache for new government

Aug 03, 2022 (AFP)

With conservative Duque due to hand over to his left-wing successor Gustavo Petro on Sunday, the new government will have to find solutions to the problem. The ...

Greek firefighters battle sixth day to save national park

Jul 26, 2022 (AFP)

"Firebreaks are being broadened (at the Dadia national park)," Dimitris Petrovits, deputy governor of the Evros region in northeast Greece, told reporters. More...

Sea level rise is killing trees along the Atlantic coast, creating ghost forests

Jul 25, 2022 (The Conversation)

Throughout coastal North Carolina, evidence of forest die-off is everywhere. Nearly every roadside ditch I pass while driving around the region is lined with de...

Brazilian Amazon lost 18 trees per second in 2021: report

Jul 18, 2022 (AFP)

The Mapbiomas report said the country lost some 16,557 square kilometers (1.65 million hectares) of indigenous vegetation in 2021 -- an area bigger than Norther...

California wildfire threat to Yosemite giant sequoias 'almost gone'

Jul 14, 2022 (AFP)

More than 1,000 firefighters have scrambled to contain the Washburn fire, which started a week ago, and which for days threatened the world-renowned Mariposa Gr...