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The simple 'seedballs' giving Kenya's forests a helping hand
Feb 28, 2021 (AFP)
In a tranche of razed forest bordering the Masai Mara wildlife reserve, a team of rangers scatter generous handfuls of "seedballs" around the bald clearing to g...
Diverse mangrove forests store more carbon
Feb 25, 2021 (UPI)
The new research, published Thursday in the journal Functional Ecology, suggests more diverse mangrove forests are healthier mangrove forests, yielding larger q...
Climate change is fueling an east-west divide in forest seed production
Feb 23, 2021 (UPI)
According to a new study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, climate change has fueled an increase in seed production across eastern forest...
Brussels warns Warsaw over ancient forest
Feb 18, 2021 (AFP)
The European Court of Justice in 2018 said Poland's government broke the law by allowing logging in the Bialowieza Forest, a UNESCO world heritage site. The log...
Covid an excuse to strip tropical forests: indigenous groups
Feb 18, 2021 (AFP)
An assessment by the Forest People's Programme of post-pandemic stimulus plans in Brazil, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Indonesia and Peru found t...
Chief Raoni on 'final mission' to protect Amazon lands
Feb 17, 2021 (AFP)
Raoni, a chief of the Kayapo people in north-central Brazil, will make the appeal as part of a live webcast called "Protecting the Amazon," organized by several...
More trees do not always create a cooler planet, Clark University geographer finds
Feb 15, 2021 (SPX)
A peer-reviewed study by Williams and his team, "Climate Impacts of U.S. Forest Loss Span Net Warming to Net Cooling," published Feb. 12 in Science Advances. Th...
Biomass forest sensing satellite shaping up
Feb 12, 2021 (SPX)
Assembly of the satellite's mechanical structure could not be carried out as planned due to COVID. But during April and May 2020, the Airbus team put in place a...
NASA satellites help quantify forests' impacts on global carbon budget
Feb 04, 2021 (SPX)
In addition to better understanding the overall role of forests in the global carbon cycle, the scientists were also able to distinguish between the contributio...
US, EU importing potentially illegal wood from Brazil: report
Feb 02, 2021 (AFP)
The report, published by London-based environmental group Earthsight, said that Brazilian firm Indusparquet was "thriving across the US and EU" after being "let...
Brazil indigenous leaders sue Bolsonaro for 'crimes against humanity'
Jan 23, 2021 (AFP)
Chief Raoni Metuktire, the leader of the Kayapo people, and Chief Almir Narayamoga Surui, leader of the Paiter Surui tribe, filed the claim at The Hague-based b...
Oak trees take root in Iraqi Kurdistan to help climate
Jan 19, 2021 (AFP)
Over the next five years, the 26-year-old aims to plant one million oaks -- resilient trees that can endure both the cold of northern Iraq and the dry spells of...
Forests may flip from CO2 'sink' to 'source' by 2050
Jan 14, 2021 (AFP)
Climate sceptics often describe CO2 as "plant food", suggesting that increased greenhouse gas emissions will be offset by a massive upsurge in plant growth. But...
Forest loss 'hotspots' bigger than Germany: WWF
Jan 13, 2021 (AFP)
Swathes of forest continue to be flattened each year -- mainly due to industrial-scale agriculture -- as biodiversity-rich areas are cleared to create space for...
2020 another grim year for Brazilian Amazon
Jan 08, 2021 (AFP)
Brazilian space agency INPE identified 8,426 square kilometers (3,253 square miles) of Amazon rainforest lost to deforestation in 2020, using its DETER monitori...
Pollution trial of Canada-owned pulp mill opens in France
Jan 06, 2021 (AFP)
Fibre Excellence, owned by Paper Excellence which is headquartered in British Columbia, has been charged with "emitting polluting substances", notably heavy met...
Alert system shows potential for reducing deforestation, mitigating climate change
Jan 05, 2021 (SPX)
A research collaboration that included Jennifer Alix-Garcia of Oregon State University found that the Global Land Analysis and Discovery System, known as GLAD, ...
Fire-resistant tropical forest on brink of disappearance
Dec 21, 2020 (SPX)
The study also reveals that only 10% of the forest that is left remains fire-resistant. The researchers warn that protecting this is crucial for preventing cata...
Land ecosystems are becoming less efficient at absorbing CO2
Dec 21, 2020 (JPL)
Because CO2 is a main 'ingredient' that plants need to grow, elevated concentrations of it cause an increase in photosynthesis, and consequently, plant growth -...
When dinosaurs disappeared, forests thrived
Dec 17, 2020 (SPX)
To understand how the mass extinction and associated climate changes affected specific ecosystems, a team of McGill scientists has analyzed the microscopic rema...
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