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Veteran Congo ruler pledges to shield forests at inauguration

Apr 16, 2021 (AFP)

Sassou Nguesso, who has been in power for a total of 36 of his 77 years, took the oath of office before 18 other African heads of state, including from his gian...

Noise pollution poses long-term risk to trees: study

Apr 14, 2021 (AFP)

Manmade noise from construction, industry and the building of infrastructure such as roads and pipelines has increased dramatically since the middle of last cen...

Mapping North Carolina's ghost forests from 430 miles up

Apr 07, 2021 (SPX)

"I was like, 'Whoa.' No leaves; no branches. The trees were literally just trunks. As far as the eye could see," said Ury, who recently earned a biology Ph.D. a...

Japan sees earliest cherry blossoms on record as climate warms

Mar 31, 2021 (AFP)

In the ancient capital of Kyoto, cherry blossoms hit their peak on March 26 -- 10 days sooner than average and the earliest since the government started taking ...

Sharp increase in destruction of virgin forest in 2020

Mar 31, 2021 (AFP)

The worst losses were in Brazil, three times higher than the next highest country, the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a report from Global Forest Wa...

Rich nation appetites driving tropical deforestation

Mar 29, 2021 (AFP)

Even as North America and Europe expand forest cover within their own borders, efforts to slow forest loss in the global south through offset schemes and direct...

Coffee waste can accelerate the recovery of tropical forests

Mar 29, 2021 (UPI)

For the study, researchers marked off two large test sites across plots of degraded forest in Costa Rica. On one site, researchers dumped a few dozen loads of c...

Indigenous people 'best guardians' of LatAm forests, says FAO

Mar 25, 2021 (AFP)

"Indigenous and tribal peoples and the forests in their territories play vital roles in global and regional climate action and in fighting poverty, hunger and m...

Forests, soil may not keep pace with CO2 emissions, experts warn

Mar 25, 2021 (AFP)

Climate projections mistakenly assume that land and what grows on it are able to absorb the CO2 humanity loads into the atmosphere, they reported in the journal...

Russia, an oil giant, goes big on timber

Mar 24, 2021 (AFP)

Nowhere is this more evident than in Vologda, a region 500 kilometres (310 miles) northeast of the Russian capital, where forests of birch and pine stretch as f...

Green cities use space to boost well being

Mar 24, 2021 (ESA)

Discover how space can help to boost the physical and mental health of city dwellers in an hour-long webinar to be held on 25 March. ESA is using satellites to ...

Earth from Space: Amazon rainforest

Mar 19, 2021 (ESA)

As its name implies, the Amazonas is almost entirely covered by the Amazon rainforest - the world's largest tropical rainforest covering an area of around six m...

Climate change, human activity threatens carbon uptake in Amazon forests

Mar 19, 2021 (UPI)

The research, published Friday in the journal Nature Communications, showed forest plots that have been frequently or recently disturbed by fire and human activ...

Maps to improve forest biomass estimates

Mar 18, 2021 (ESA)

Above ground biomass refers to the stem, bark, branches and twigs of woody components of vegetation. As photosynthesis withdraws carbon dioxide from the atmosph...

Development bank seeds $20mn for Amazon protection

Mar 18, 2021 (AFP)

IDB president Mauricio Claver-Carone announced the starting contribution from the bank's own capital at its annual meeting in Barranquilla, Colombia. He said th...

Million-tree mission hopes to fix reforestation flaws

Mar 15, 2021 (AFP)

But experts claim some recent mass tree-planting schemes have failed to reduce greenhouse gases when not done properly, and even harmed the environment. Now a p...

Insects could kill 1.4 million trees in U.S. cities by 2050, study says

Mar 14, 2021 (UPI)

The study, published in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology, used data from around 30,000 urban areas across the country to create the f...

One dead, several missing in Argentina forest fires

Mar 12, 2021 (AFP)

Dozens of people have been evacuated from the path of the advancing flames, and some 200 houses have been destroyed. The fires, which authorities suspect were s...

Desert country Jordan aims for green with 10-million tree campaign

Mar 09, 2021 (AFP)

"The trees in our region are beautiful," says 11-year-old Mohammed al-Ananza, helping his father Mustafa plant a carob sapling. "It's a real shame that we have ...

Amazon indigenous groups sue Casino chain over deforestation

Mar 03, 2021 (AFP)

The grouping of 11 indigenous associations, backed by French and American NGOs, is seeking compensation of about 3.1 million euros ($3.7 million) from the Frenc...