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Brazil VP challenges DiCaprio to a hike in the jungle

Aug 19, 2020 (AFP)

Mourao, who heads President Jair Bolsonaro's task force on fighting deforestation, took issue with DiCaprio reposting an Instagram video from The Guardian newsp...

Fight over Myanmar's marble hills; Amazon protesters resume roadblock

Aug 19, 2020 (AFP)

The deafening sound of cutting and grinding machines, punctuated by the tapping of hammers and chisels, echoes around the hills next to Sagyin village, north of...

NASA study maps the roots of global mangrove loss

Aug 19, 2020 (SPX)

Mangroves are hardy trees and shrubs that grow in the salty, wet, muddy soils of Earth's tropical and subtropical coastlines. They protect the coastlines from e...

Increasing indigenous property rights could help save the rainforest

Aug 11, 2020 (UPI)

For the study, researchers at the University California, San Diego, used satellite data of vegetation coverage in the Amazon rainforest to study deforestation p...

World's most pristine tropical forests remain vulnerable to deforestation

Aug 10, 2020 (UPI)

According to the new study, published Monday in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, just 6.5 percent of the "best of the last" tropical forests enjoy form...

Ivory Coast forms 'green army' to fight deforestation

Aug 07, 2020 (AFP)

The Special Surveillance and Intervention Brigade (BSSI) is "an unprecedented force in the history of water and forests in Ivory Coast, by virtue of its charact...

Brazil hails reduction in Amazon deforestation in July

Aug 07, 2020 (AFP)

Official data showed a swath of Brazil's Amazon rainforest about the size of London -- more than 1,600 square kilometers (620 square miles) -- was cleared in Ju...

Brazil environment minister vows results on deforestation

Aug 06, 2020 (AFP)

Ricardo Salles is tasked with running environmental policy under far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, who faces accusations from environmentalists of encouraging...

Investment fund drops Brazil's JBS over environment

Jul 28, 2020 (AFP)

Nordea Asset Management, a 230-billion-euro fund, said the decision was taken by its "responsible investments committee," and applies to around 40 million euros...

Trees don't live forever, but finding one dying of old age is rare

Jul 27, 2020 (UPI)

Surveys of some of the oldest trees on Earth, including ginkgoes, have failed to turn up evidence of senescence, or aging, in centuries-old trees. Just because ...

Tree planting does not always boost ecosystem carbon stocks, study finds

Jul 27, 2020 (SPX)

Experts at the University of Stirling and the James Hutton Institute analysed four locations in Scotland where birch trees were planted onto heather moorland - ...

Brazil's Bolsonaro under pressure to protect Amazon

Jul 18, 2020 (AFP)

The simple fact that Vice President Hamilton Mourao committed on Wednesday to cutting deforestation and forest fires "to an acceptable minimum" was a mini-revol...

Amazon deforestation increases 25 percent in Brazil

Jul 10, 2020 (AFP)

Some 3,069 square kilometers (1,184 square miles) were affected by deforestation, the highest figure since satellite data has been collected beginning in 2015, ...

Investors want 'results' on deforestation: Brazil VP

Jul 09, 2020 (AFP)

"At no time did investors commit with resources, they want to see results... to do with the reduction in deforestation," Mourao, who heads the National Amazon C...

French shipping giant to stop Gambian timber exports over smuggling fears

Jul 08, 2020 (AFP)

The West African rosewood tree is an internationally protected species, but is overexploited because of high demand for its darkly hued timber, which is popular...

Forest harvesting in Europe threatens climate goals

Jul 01, 2020 (AFP)

Researchers at the Joint Research Centre in Italy analysed 15 years of satellite data, documenting a dramatic shift in forest harvesting to meet increased deman...

Gold mining stunts Amazon rainforest recovery

Jun 29, 2020 (UPI)

"Historically gold mining was often overlooked in deforestation analysis as it occupies relatively small areas when compared to pastures or large-scale agricult...

Planting new forests is part of but not the whole solution to climate change

Jun 23, 2020 (SPX)

But a new study led by a Colorado State University biology researcher finds that the carbon-capture potential of afforestation may be overestimated. The study, ...

When planting trees threatens the forest

Jun 23, 2020 (SPX)

The analysis, published on June 22 in Nature Sustainability, reveals how efforts such as the global Trillion Trees campaign and a related initiative (H. R. 5859...

Major land sales fueling tropical forest losses

Jun 23, 2020 (UPI)

When researchers analyzed the kinds of land acquisitions most associated with forest losses, they found purchases made with the intent of establishing new singl...