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$4 trillion fund holders tell Brazil to halt deforestation
Jun 23, 2020 (AFP)
The managers from countries across Europe, Asia and South America expressed their fears that the government in Brasilia was using the COVID-19 crisis to push th...
Know the risks of investing in forests
Jun 19, 2020 (SPX)
In a paper published in Science, University of Utah biologist William Anderegg and his colleagues say that forests can be best deployed in the fight against cli...
Forests can be risky climate investments to offset greenhouse gas emissions
Jun 19, 2020 (SPX)
Given the tremendous ability of forests to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, some governments are counting on planted forests as offsets for greenhouse...
Brazilian Amazon deforestation hits new record in May
Jun 12, 2020 (AFP)
Environmentalists warn 2020 is on track to be the most destructive year ever for the world's biggest rainforest, with even more losses than in devastating fires...
Amazon risks combusting with twin fire, virus crises
Jun 09, 2020 (AFP)
But now fire season is here again, and the coronavirus pandemic risks making it even worse. This year, experts say, the huge number of trees already felled in t...
Bolsonaro using virus against indigenous people: leader
Jun 05, 2020 (AFP)
Known for his colorful feather headdresses and the large disc inserted in his lower lip, chief Raoni is one of the most famous defenders of the Amazon and the i...
Football pitch of rainforest destroyed every six seconds: study
Jun 02, 2020 (AFP)
Brazil accounted for more than a third of the loss, with the Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia a distant second and third, Global Forest Watch said in ...
Football pitch of rainforest destroyed every six seconds
Jun 02, 2020 (AFP)
Brazil accounted for more than a third of the loss, with the Democratic Republic of Congo and Indonesia a distant second and third, Global Forest Watch said in ...
Trees in forests all over the world are getting younger, shorter
May 29, 2020 (UPI)
New research, published Friday in the journal Science, suggests rising global temperatures and atmospheric CO2 concentrations over the last century, combined wi...
Tropical forests can handle the heat, up to a point
May 22, 2020 (SPX)
The world's tropical forests store a quarter-century worth of fossil fuel emissions in their trees alone. There are fears that global heating can reduce this st...
Uruguay renegotiates $3 bn pulp plant deal with Finland's UPM
May 15, 2020 (AFP)
The original $3 billion investment by UPM, which already operates one such plant in Uruguay, was controversial because the new plant is located on the Uruguay R...
With attention on virus, Amazon deforestation surges
May 09, 2020 (AFP)
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon hit a new high in the first four months of the year, according to data released Friday by Brazil's National Space Research...
Brazil to deploy army to fight Amazon deforestation
May 07, 2020 (AFP)
The far-right leader has faced criticism on the world stage for record-breaking wildfires in 2019, his first year in office. And though fire season will only st...
Look beyond rainforests to protect trees, scientists say
May 07, 2020 (SPX)
Scientists studied data from more than 10,000 forest and savanna sites across the Americas, discovering unique and special tree biodiversity. Conservation effor...
Deforestation in Africa accelerates: UN food agency
May 07, 2020 (AFP)
In South America, where some countries have been blamed for rampant forest exploitation, the rate of forest loss was halved over the last decade. South America ...
Recent Australian wildfires made worse by logging
May 06, 2020 (SPX)
In the wake of the country's worst forest fires in recorded history, University of Queensland researchers have been part of an international collaboration, inve...
Plant diversity in Europe's forests is on the decline
Apr 13, 2020 (UPI)
Across the globe, the list of threatened plant and animal species gets longer every year. But on smaller scales, some species are thriving. Researchers wanted t...
Ancient long-lived pioneer trees store majority of carbon in tropical forests
Apr 10, 2020 (UPI)
Scientists arrived at their discovery after analyzing the different development strategies used by various tree species. "In an earlier study we found that tree...
Drylands to become more abundant, less productive due to climate change
Apr 03, 2020 (UPI)
Modeling efforts led by researchers from Washington State University suggest drylands are likely to become more abundant but less productive. Some 38 percent of...
Remains of 90-million-year-old rainforest found near South Pole
Apr 01, 2020 (UPI)
Seismic data suggested the sediment layer was unique, but researchers weren't expecting to find the remnants of a Cretaceous forest. "The finding of this well p...
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