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French lenders bankroll firms linked to deforestation: analysis
Feb 10, 2020 (AFP)
Three years after France adopted landmark legislation compelling companies to identify and prevent human rights abuses and nature degradation throughout their s...
Secondary forests provide deforestation buffer for old-growth primary forests
Feb 07, 2020 (SPX)
Now, researchers led by the University of Leeds, the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE), and Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EM...
Amazon deforestation for January hits record
Feb 07, 2020 (AFP)
More than 280 square kilometers (110 square miles) were cleared, an increase of 108 percent. It was the largest area cleared in the month of January since 2015,...
Bolsonaro's Amazon 'dream' is indigenous 'nightmare'
Feb 07, 2020 (AFP)
Bolsonaro proposed a new bill Wednesday that would allow mining, farming and hydroelectric power projects on formerly protected land in the world's largest rain...
Trees struggle when forests become too small
Feb 03, 2020 (SPX)
A lack of connected forests can prevent trees from multiplying efficiently. The more fragmented the forest becomes, the greater the problem for the trees. "Fore...
Pygmy chief arrested for destroying forest in DR Congo park
Jan 31, 2020 (AFP)
One of the last groups of eastern lowland gorillas, down to just 250 animals, faces an emerging threat from a conflict between rangers and local Pygmies, who cl...
Photographer Claudia Andujar defends Brazil's Yanomami
Jan 30, 2020 (AFP)
Andujar began documenting the Yanomami in 1971 after visiting members of the group deep inside the Amazon rainforest in the northwestern state of Roraima, near ...
Some trees respond to weight increases by thickening their stems
Jan 30, 2020 (UPI)
New research suggests most healthy trees have a built in system, called vertical proprioception, that allows them to respond to weight increases with radial gro...
Yanomami leader pleads with world to save Amazon from Bolsonaro
Jan 30, 2020 (AFP)
Davi Kopenawa hit out at the far-right leader of his country, and at US President Donald Trump, at the opening of an exhibition in Paris on the best known indig...
Mexican conservationist found dead two weeks after disappearance
Jan 30, 2020 (AFP)
Homero Gomez, 50, who ran a sanctuary for the iconic orange and black insects, had been missing since January 14. His body was found at the bottom of a well in ...
Seeds of hope: Young volunteers replant Tunisia forests
Jan 28, 2020 (AFP)
Hamdi, from the eastern city of Sfax, gets straight to work after travelling 250 kilometres (150 miles) to the marginalised region. A camping and hiking enthusi...
NASA forest structure mission releases first data
Jan 27, 2020 (SPX)
GEDI (pronounced like the Jedi of "Star Wars" fame) surveys Earth's forests from aboard the International Space Station, using its three lasers to construct det...
Taking root? Tree-planting new trend in eco-conscious Davos
Jan 21, 2020 (AFP)
In Davos this year, leaders and tycoons, including the world's leading climate sceptic Donald Trump, offered to plant trees to help the planet. Finding common g...
Amazon indigenous leaders accuse Brazil of 'genocide' policy
Jan 18, 2020 (AFP)
Hundreds of elders gathered this week at Pairacu, deep in the rainforest, to form a united front against Bolsonaro's environmental policies, which have seen def...
Amazon tribes meet to counter Bolsonaro environmental threats
Jan 16, 2020 (AFP)
The main objective of the meeting is to present a united front against Bolsonaro's plans, which they say pose a threat to the Amazon and their way of life, as w...
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon up 85 percent in 2019
Jan 14, 2020 (AFP)
The 9,166 square kilometers (3,539 square miles) cleared was the highest number in at least five years, according to Brazil's National Institute for Space Resea...
Peru to plant one million trees around Machu Picchu
Jan 09, 2020 (AFP)
Vizcarra has pledged to plant one million trees in the 35,000-hectare protected archeological complex that features the stunning Inca citadel. "We're here to be...
Indonesia equips forest rangers with guns in illegal logging battle
Jan 09, 2020 (AFP)
The jungle-clad region at the tip of Sumatra island loses some 32,000 hectares (79,000 acres) of more than two million hectares of forest annually due to defore...
Geographers find tipping point in deforestation
Jan 08, 2020 (SPX)
Geography professor Tomasz Stepinski used high-resolution satellite images from the European Space Agency to study landscapes in 9-kilometer-wide blocks across ...
Biodiverse forests better at storing carbon for long periods, says study
Jan 08, 2020 (SPX)
A new study, accepted in Environmental Research Letters, has found that diverse natural forests with a mix of tree species are more reliable and stable at absor...
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