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US announces historic $1.1 bn investment for Everglades rehabilitation
Jan 19, 2022 (AFP)
"The Administration is making the largest single investment in the Everglades in US history," the White House said in a statement. The money, which comes from a...
Rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations globally affect photosynthesis of peat-forming mosses
Jan 14, 2022 (SPX)
As human CO2 emissions continue, it is increasingly important to capture CO2 to mitigate the associated climate change. Peatlands are the largest soil carbon st...
Global firms fall short on forest protection vows
Jan 13, 2022 (AFP)
The Forest 500 analysis by non-profit research group Global Canopy graded 350 companies most responsible for producing, using or trading commodities that drive ...
Israeli police and Bedouin clash in tree-planting protests
Jan 13, 2022 (AFP)
Protesters have held a series of demonstrations in recent days over the environmental scheme in southern Israel's arid desert region, posing a thorny challenge ...
Israel govt seeks 'compromise' after Bedouin unrest
Jan 12, 2022 (AFP)
About 200 Bedouin protesters in southern Israel's arid Negev desert on Wednesday clashed with security officers, who tried to disperse them with stun grenades, ...
Loggers threaten Papua New Guinea's unique forest creatures
Dec 22, 2021 (AFP)
These extraordinary species have long been prized by traditional hunters, but conservationists now fear the forests they live in, one of Earth's last great wild...
Canada announces challenge to US lumber tariffs
Dec 21, 2021 (AFP)
The challenge will be filed under Chapter 10 of the trilateral free trade agreement with the United States and Mexico, or USMCA, the Canadian government said in...
European stores pull products linked to Brazil deforestation
Dec 16, 2021 (AFP)
Chains such as Carrefour Belgium have committed to pulling from their shelves corned beef, beef jerky and fresh prime cuts suspected to come from cattle raised ...
Soils in old-growth treetops can store more carbon than soils under our feet
Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)
The new research on these unique soils, being presented on Wednesday, 15 December at 5:00 p.m. CST at AGU Fall Meeting 2021, marks the first attempt to quantify...
Colombian Amazon: casualty of peace
Dec 09, 2021 (AFP)
Its executioner is a 40-year-old man with a scarf bound around his face. The purpose of the crime: to plant coca, used to make cocaine -- the only means of surv...
Wetlands destruction driving 'sensitive' dragonflies to brink
Dec 09, 2021 (AFP)
A report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature presented the first assessment of all 6,016 dragonfly and damselfly species globally, and found...
England tree scheme takes root amid climate emergency
Dec 09, 2021 (AFP)
The seeds are placed in pots and covered in soil, and those which germinate over the next two years will then be planted in the ground and hopefully grow into f...
Trees are biggest methane 'vents' in wetland areas - even when they're dry
Dec 06, 2021 (SPX)
In a study published in the Royal Society journal, Philosophical Transactions A, the researchers have found evidence that far more methane is emitted by trees g...
Brazil burns boats in crackdown on wildcat Amazon gold miners
Nov 28, 2021 (AFP)
Justice Minister Anderson Torres said 69 vessels were destroyed Saturday, and he published photos and video of them on fire on the banks of the Madeira River. "...
Colombia charges ex-rebels with Amazon destruction
Nov 25, 2021 (AFP)
Miguel Botache Santillana, a fugitive leader of a renegade faction of the former rebel army FARC, and two underlings were charged with leading an "aggressive de...
Ottawa 'disappointed' by US decision to double Canadian lumber tariffs
Nov 25, 2021 (AFP)
Most Canadian companies that export softwood lumber to the United States will have to pay 17.9 percent duties, up from the current 8.99 percent, according to do...
Hope takes root with tree planting in war-wrecked Iraq city
Nov 25, 2021 (AFP)
They placed the first 300 acacia, lemon tree and cypress saplings into the ground in a project that aims to plant 5,000 new trees in the northern city, much of ...
EU forest plan 'protectionist,' say Brazil soy farmers
Nov 23, 2021 (AFP)
Brazil, the world's top producer of soy and beef, stands to lose big if the EU goes ahead with the draft law unveiled last week, which would require exporters t...
French army hunts illegal gold miners wrecking Amazon as deforestation soars
Nov 18, 2021 (AFP)
French Guiana, about the size of Portugal on the north shore of South America and almost completely covered in forest, has a long history of small-scale gold mi...
Musk eyes Amazon watch; EU plans food import bans from deforested areas
Nov 17, 2021 (AFP)
Brazilian Communications Minister Fabio Faria met with the billionaire tech titan in Austin, Texas on Monday over a possible tie-up in which SpaceX would provid...
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