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Indigenous lands key to climate goals in Latin America: report
Mar 31, 2022 (AFP)
To achieve the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting the global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the international community must take into account ind...
Ivory Coast walls up forest to fend off encroaching city
Mar 25, 2022 (AFP)
"We have our own Great Wall of China," says the construction worker proudly. In three months' time, a cinder block fence 10 kilometres (six miles) long is to ru...
Lost children survive 25-day ordeal in Amazon
Mar 18, 2022 (AFP)
Brothers Glauco, 7, and Gleison, 9, were found Tuesday 35 kilometers (22 miles) from the spot where they went missing, famished and dehydrated but otherwise fin...
How Indigenous burning shaped the Klamath's forests for a millennia
Mar 17, 2022 (SPX)
A new study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences combines scientific data with Indigenous oral histories and ecolo...
EU urged to ban all imports linked to deforestation
Mar 14, 2022 (AFP)
The letter from the 34 organizations comes as EU environment ministers prepare to meet Thursday in Brussels on a proposal to ban products that fuel deforestatio...
Brazil stars protest Bolsonaro environmental policy
Mar 09, 2022 (AFP)
Thousands of protesters flooded the square at the seat of power in Brasilia, brandishing a giant inflatable turtle, bird and other animals and urging Congress t...
Amazon rainforest is losing resilience: New evidence from satellite data analysis
Mar 08, 2022 (SPX)
For about three quarters of the forest, the ability to recover from perturbation has been decreasing since the early 2000s, which the scientists see as a warnin...
Stora Enso suspends Russia forestry operations
Mar 02, 2022 (AFP)
The forestry giant, with 1,100 employees at three packaging plants and two sawmills in Russia, will also freeze all its Russian imports and exports. "The war in...
New study shows that Earth's coldest forests are shifting northward with climate change
Feb 25, 2022 (SPX)
Logan Berner, assistant research professor in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS) and Scott Goetz, Regents' professor and director o...
DR Congo flouting forest protection deal: Greenpeace
Feb 15, 2022 (AFP)
The DRC and Britain approved funds worth $500 million as part of the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) two months ago in Glasgow, which hosted the COP26 ...
Mozambique to plant 100 million trees on battered coast
Feb 08, 2022 (AFP)
Large portions of mangroves along the country's 2,500-kilometre-long (1,500-mile-long) coastline have been decimated by high seas and the harvesting of firewood...
Drones help solve tropical tree mortality mysteries
Feb 08, 2022 (SPX)
There is concern that many large tropical trees will die as climate change intensifies processes that kill trees, like droughts and intense storms," said KC Cus...
Firefighters extinguish Kenya forest blaze
Feb 07, 2022 (AFP)
The blaze started Saturday and dozens of forest rangers, firefighters and volunteers had struggled to control the fire from spreading, as suspicions of arson em...
Kenya under fire over calls to 'weaken' forest protections
Feb 03, 2022 (AFP)
Persistent efforts by developers and powerful individuals to seize chunks of the bush as their own were defeated under historic laws enacted to protect Kenya's ...
Deforestation in Brazilian Amazon hits January record
Feb 02, 2022 (AFP)
Nearly 360 square kilometers (140 square miles) of forest cover -- an area more than six times the size of Manhattan -- were destroyed in the Brazilian Amazon f...
More than 9,000 tree species still undiscovered: study
Jan 31, 2022 (AFP)
"Estimating the number of tree species is essential to inform, optimize, and prioritize forest conservation efforts across the globe," said the study, which was...
Future forests will have smaller trees and soak up less carbon, study suggests
Jan 27, 2022 (SPX)
By combining tree-ring data with U.S. Forest Service inventory data on Arizona's ponderosa pines, the team captured a more complete picture than traditional mod...
Penn State gets grant to teach private forest owners to adapt to climate change
Jan 22, 2022 (SPX)
The funding comes from the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture through its Agriculture and Food Research Initiative, the nation's leading competit...
Just what is a 'resilient' forest, anyway?
Jan 21, 2022 (SPX)
More than a century ago, Sierra Nevada forests faced almost no competition from neighboring trees for resources. The tree densities of the late 1800s would asto...
Land battle awaits Indigenous communities over Indonesia capital relocation: NGO
Jan 21, 2022 (AFP)
At least 20,000 people from 21 indigenous groups live in the area designated for the construction of the new capital with laws enabling the move from Jakarta no...
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