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Trapped saltwater caused mangrove death after Hurricane Irma
Aug 03, 2021 (SPX)
Using NASA data collected before and after Hurricane Irma, researchers found that storm surge and trapped seawater - not wind - ultimately caused the trees to d...
Finnish monks turn to forestry to cover virus losses
Jul 30, 2021 (AFP)
But with the coronavirus pandemic, "we've had far fewer guests," leading to a loss of donations and tourist income, says Father Mikael, sporting a beard, black ...
Index ranks vulnerability of rainforests to climate and human impacts
Jul 27, 2021 (JPL)
The index shows that the world's three major rainforest areas have different degrees of susceptibility to these threats. The Amazon Basin in South America is ex...
NASA study finds tropical forests' ability to absorb carbon dioxide is waning
Jul 21, 2021 (JPL)
A recent study led by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California identified whether vegetated areas like forests and savannas around ...
UNESCO removes DR Congo park from endangered list
Jul 19, 2021 (AFP)
UNESCO praised the country's conservation efforts and the government's commitment to ban prospecting for oil in Salonga, the vast central African country's larg...
20% of intact tropical forests overlap with extractive industries
Jul 16, 2021 (UPI)
Healthy, intact forests are a key asset in the fight to slow climate change, but new research, published Friday in the journal Frontiers in Forests and Global C...
Environment watchdogs oppose lifting of DR Congo logging ban
Jul 14, 2021 (AFP)
On Friday Congolese minister of the environment Eve Bazaiba recommended lifting the moratorium with a view to ratifying the measure the next time the government...
Warming, deforestation turn Amazon into source of CO2
Jul 14, 2021 (AFP)
Hundreds of high-altitude air samples collected over the last decade showed that southeastern Amazon, in particular, has shifted from a "sink" to a source of ca...
The battle for Brazil's indigenous land hots up
Jul 12, 2021 (AFP)
Indigenous people, who represent some 0.5 percent of Brazil's population, hold about 13 percent of its land under ancestral rights guaranteed by the country's 1...
New June record for deforestation of Brazilian Amazon
Jul 09, 2021 (AFP)
A total of 1,062 square kilometers of forest was destroyed -- an area almost the size of the city of Rio de Janeiro. This was up from 1,043 km2 in the same mont...
Colombian deforestation up 8% in 2020: ministry
Jul 07, 2021 (AFP)
Some 64 percent of wildfires and deforestation affected the Amazon, the world's largest tropical rainforest that is shared with eight other countries and territ...
Fears for future of Mexico City's 'green lung'
Jul 06, 2021 (AFP)
A more than 1.7-kilometer (one mile) long reinforced concrete bridge is being built on a freshwater lake system that helps to regulate the temperature and preve...
Worst June for Brazil Amazon forest fires since 2007: data
Jul 01, 2021 (AFP)
The INPE research institute said its satellites detected 2,308 fires last month, an increase of 2.3 percent from June 2020. The previous record for the month of...
Forest loss threat to one of world's largest eagles
Jun 30, 2021 (AFP)
The long-lived eagles, with legs almost as thick as a human wrist and claws as big as a hand, feed mainly on sloths and monkeys that they catch in the forest ca...
Hotter, more frequent droughts threaten California's iconic blue oak woodlands
Jun 29, 2021 (SPX)
By another metric, which reflects the altered or deteriorating condition of the tree cover, the blue oak range has lost over 600 km2 in addition. These findings...
Russian forests are crucial to global climate mitigation
Jun 25, 2021 (SPX)
Since the dissolution of the USSR, Russia has been reporting almost no changes in its forests, while data obtained from remote sensing products indicate that Ru...
Brazil environment minister resigns amid investigation
Jun 23, 2021 (AFP)
"I have presented my resignation to the president, which he accepted," Salles, 46, told a news conference at the presidential palace in Brasilia. Salles, one of...
Bipartisan group defends sequoia tree bill in California despite opposition
Jun 23, 2021 (UPI)
The bill introduced on Wednesday is aimed at expediting reforestation and protection efforts in California's Sequoia National Forest. But more than 80 environme...
Commercial forests could produce long-term climate benefit
Jun 22, 2021 (UPI)
By planting in regions where forest growth rates are high, new commercial conifer forests could deliver nearly 270% more climate mitigation than semi-natural br...
Passive rewilding can rapidly expand UK woodland at no cost
Jun 18, 2021 (SPX)
The research, led by the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH), found natural growth due to seed dispersal by birds, mammals and wind can produce biodiver...
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