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Apr 01, 2020 (AFP)

Zezico Guajajara, a teacher and activist in the northeastern state of Maranhao, was gunned down Tuesday in circumstances that are still being investigated. He w...

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...

In an African forest, a fight to save the endangered pangolin

Mar 31, 2020 (AFP)

Their target is the long-tailed pangolin -- a little mammal also called the scaly anteater, which will be lucky to survive to the end of this century. The harml...

Remote Tierra del Fuego kelp forests surveyed for the first time in 45 years

Mar 12, 2020 (UPI)

A study published this week in the journal PLOS One shows the ecosystem remains healthy, but researchers warn this may not always be the case. Kelp forests host...

Close to tipping point, Amazon could collapse in 50 years

Mar 10, 2020 (AFP)

Another major ecosystem, Caribbean coral reefs, could die off in only 15 years were it to pass its own point-of-no-return, the scientists reported in the journa...

Protecting flood-controlling mangrove forests pays for itself

Mar 10, 2020 (UPI)

In a new study, scientists produced high-resolution models to map the costs of flooding along exposed coastlines and the benefits provided by local mangrove for...

Burned area trends in the Amazon similar to previous years

Mar 09, 2020 (ESA)

While forest fires are common in the Amazon, they vary considerably from year-to-year driven by changes in climate, as well as variations in deforestation and f...

Tropical forests' carbon sink is already rapidly weakening

Mar 05, 2020 (SPX)

The global scientific collaboration, led by the University of Leeds, reveals that a feared switch of the world's undisturbed tropical forests from a carbon sink...

Greenpeace accuses DR Congo of signing vast new logging contracts

Mar 05, 2020 (AFP)

The green activist group alleged environment minister Claude Nyamugabo signed at least nine contracts in January covering nearly two million hectares (20,000 sq...

More than 60 percent of Myanmar's mangroves has been deforested in the last 20 years

Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)

While many countries have established legal protection for mangroves, their value for sustainable ecosystem services face strong competition from converting the...

Ancient Australian trees face uncertain future under climate change

Mar 04, 2020 (SPX)

The study holds lessons not only for Australia - whose wildfires have been dominating Ancient Australian trees face uncertain future under climate changes in re...

Bushfires burned a fifth of Australia's forest: study

Feb 24, 2020 (AFP)

Climate scientists are currently examining data from the disaster, which destroyed swathes of southeastern Australia, to determine to what extent they can be at...

Hurricanes benefit mangroves in Florida's Everglades, study finds

Feb 18, 2020 (UPI)

The study found the effect of hurricanes is so dramatic that two major storms in Florida raised the coastal elevation in parts of Everglades-area mangroves by m...

Satellite image data reveals rapid decline of China's intertidal wetlands

Feb 17, 2020 (SPX)

Intertidal wetlands significantly contribute to China's environmental and ecological diversity, but are facing unprecedented pressures from anthropogenic develo...

Hot climates to see more variability in tree leafing as temperatures rise

Feb 17, 2020 (SPX)

The researchers examined satellite imagery, air temperature data and phenology (plant life cycle} models for 85 large cities and their surrounding rural areas f...

Hungary's Orban vows to plant 10 trees for every newborn

Feb 16, 2020 (AFP)

The announcement was part of the "climate action plan" which the government adopted last week, the nationalist premier said. "We will plant 10 trees for each ne...

Forests bouncing back from beetles, but elk and deer slowing recovery

Feb 14, 2020 (SPX)

The study, published this month in the journal Ecology, found that high-elevation forests in the southern Rocky Mountains actually have a good chance of recover...

Brazil's Bolsonaro lashes out at pope's Amazon text

Feb 13, 2020 (AFP)

"Pope Francis said yesterday the Amazon is his, the world's, everyone's," said Bolsonaro, who has often railed against international criticism of his environmen...

Pope voices 'outrage' over Amazon exploitation

Feb 12, 2020 (AFP)

In a highly anticipated text, Francis exhorted the faithful to "feel outrage" over exploitation of the indigenous and destruction of land devastated by illegal ...

EU Commission warns Romania over illegal logging

Feb 12, 2020 (AFP)

Romania was given one month to take measures to prevent timber companies from selling illegally chopped wood on the EU market. "Inconsistencies in the national ...