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Brazil, Colombia 'united' in defense of Amazon ahead of UN summit
Oct 19, 2021 (AFP)
First European map of the insulating effect of forests
Oct 05, 2021 (SPX)
The insulating effect of forests has now been mapped for the first time in Europe by an international research team, including a CNRS researcher. Their work is ...
Australia's Daintree rainforest returned to Indigenous owners
Sep 30, 2021 (AFP)
The UNESCO World Heritage-listed Daintree National Park -- a 135-million-year-old tropical rainforest -- was handed back to the Eastern Kuku Yalanji people in a...
US firefighters optimistic over world's biggest tree
Sep 18, 2021 (AFP)
Flames are creeping closer to the majestic General Sherman and other giant sequoias, as man-made climate change worsens California's fearsome fire season. "We h...
Romania probes logger assault claim by filmmakers
Sep 17, 2021 (AFP)
"We already identified 11 persons involved in the incident and brought them in for questioning", police spokesman Georgian Dragan told a news conference. The th...
Death stalks Colombian defenders of nature
Sep 15, 2021 (AFP)
Death is a constant companion for indigenous defenders of nature in the violence-ridden country, and Umenza has already survived three attempts on her life. Whi...
Another deadly year for LatAm environment defenders
Sep 12, 2021 (AFP)
For the second year in a row, Colombia was the country with the highest number of killings -- 65 -- while Nicaragua had the highest per-capita rate, with 12 mur...
Trees regularly wring bedrock for a life-sustaining drink of water
Sep 08, 2021 (UPI)
For a century, scientists have known trees to be capable of wringing bedrock for a drink. However, it was long assumed trees turned to rock moisture only in the...
Conservation meet mulls plan to protect 80% of Amazon
Sep 06, 2021 (AFP)
The world's top conservation body is on Sunday poised to decide whether its 1,400 members can vote on this controversial proposal, put forward by indigenous gro...
'Virtuous cycle': Putting a price on CO2 in Gabon's forests
Sep 06, 2021 (AFP)
The value we put on nature is the subject of a motion at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Marseille. A trailblazing partnership attracting particular att...
Top Brazil court hears arguments in key indigenous land case
Sep 03, 2021 (AFP)
The powerful agribusiness lobby argues that those protections should only apply to territory whose inhabitants were present in 1988, when the constitution was a...
Environmental groups warn of 'catastrophe' in Congo's forests
Sep 02, 2021 (AFP)
"The Democratic Republic of Congo harbours the world's second-largest rainforest after Brazil," Greenpeace, Rainforest Foundation UK and others said in a statem...
Deadwood in the global carbon cycle
Sep 02, 2021 (SPX)
How much carbon is released from decaying wood worldwide? What role do insects play in this process? These questions have now been studied in a global research ...
Amazon's threatened species impacted by fires: study
Sep 01, 2021 (AFP)
Researchers used remote forest fire sensing data to model impact over time and compared the devastation with the estimated geographic ranges of over 11,500 plan...
A third of global tree species threatened with extinction
Sep 01, 2021 (AFP)
Land clearance for farming -- both crops and livestock -- and logging are by far the biggest threats to trees, the State of the World's Trees report said, addin...
Bolsonaro takes dig at Biden's 'obsession' with Amazon
Aug 30, 2021 (AFP)
"Obviously, the Biden government is more of a left-wing administration, it's a government that has almost an obsession with the environmental issue," Bolsonaro ...
Benin's rare swamp forest 'at risk of disappearing'
Aug 30, 2021 (AFP)
Home to once bustling flora and fauna, experts now warn that the fragile environment, one of the last of its kind in the West African country and accessible onl...
Tropical forests in Africa's mountains store more carbon than previously thought
Aug 26, 2021 (SPX)
The international study reported in Nature, found that intact tropical mountain (or montane) forests in Africa store around 150 tonnes of carbon per hectare. Th...
Brazil has near-record year for Amazon deforestation
Aug 06, 2021 (AFP)
A total of 8,712 square kilometers (3,364 square miles) of forest cover -- an area nearly the size of Puerto Rico -- was destroyed from August 2020 to July 2021...
Russia's forests store more carbon than previously thought
Aug 05, 2021 (ESA)
The study, published last month in Nature Scientific Reports, estimates that Russian forests contain 111 billion cubic metres of wood as of 2014 - which equates...
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