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Indigenous peoples key to saving threatened forests
Jan 07, 2020 (AFP)
As deadly bushfires ravage Australia's east coast, a new assessment of how wild forests are maintained showed that indigenous people have tenure over 36 percent...
Most of Madagascar's rainforest on pace to disappear by 2070
Jan 02, 2020 (UPI)
Nearly 90 percent of the biodiversity found on Madagascar is unique to the island nation, but the latest findings -- published this week in the journal Nature C...
Colombian botanist risking his life to preserve nature's memory
Dec 27, 2019 (AFP)
Colombia is second only to Brazil for its incredible range of fauna and flora. Armed only with a notebook and gardening shears, Betancur has taken considerable ...
385-million-year-old tree root reveals world's oldest modern forest
Dec 20, 2019 (UPI)
Though seed plants wouldn't arrive for another 10 million years, the roots suggest trees with leaves and wood were growing nearly 400 million years ago, during ...
Heavily logged tropical forests may never recover
Dec 17, 2019 (UPI)
"Old-growth tropical forests that have been the same for millions of years are now changing irreversibly due to repeated logging," lead study author Tom Swinfie...
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon up by more than double: data
Dec 14, 2019 (AFP)
The 563 square kilometers (217 square miles) deforested that month is also the highest number for any November since 2015, according to Brazil's National Instit...
Estimates of ecosystem carbon mitigation improved towards the goal of the Paris agreement
Dec 13, 2019 (SPX)
"Yet, it is important to understand the best science-based estimate of where atmospheric CO2 is fixed in terrestrial ecosystems today, and our study makes a sig...
Healthy mangroves can protect against climate change
Dec 10, 2019 (UPI)
Mangroves' ability to absorb carbon emissions has been mostly ignored by climate scientists, according to authors of the new paper, published this week in the j...
Megadroughts fueled Peruvian cloud forest activity
Dec 10, 2019 (SPX)
The study, "2,100 years of human adaptation to climate change in the High Andes," reveals that Andean climate changes - especially droughts - over the last 2,10...
Siberian researchers contribute to global monitoring of the Earth's Green Lungs
Dec 09, 2019 (SPX)
Researchers from more than 80 scientific institutions provided detailed insights on the quantitative and species composition of world forests, distribution and ...
Beleaguered DR Congo rainforest attacked on all sides
Dec 09, 2019 (AFP)
An array of global and local NGOs are in a tense fight to save the rainforest, which lost an area twice the size of Luxembourg last year alone, according to Glo...
Zambian president allegedly involved in illegal timber trade: report
Dec 06, 2019 (AFP)
The delicate slow-growing timber species locally known as "mukula" is at risk of extinction, mainly due to growing demand from Asia. Zambia banned the felling a...
First operational mapping system for high-resolution tropical forest carbon emissions created
Dec 03, 2019 (SPX)
Researchers at the Arizona State University Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science (GDCS) worked with satellite imagery from Planet Inc., an earth...
Four get 50-year terms in Honduras for activist murder
Dec 03, 2019 (AFP)
Three other men were handed 30-year sentences for their roles in the crime, which highlighted the risks taken by activists in crime-plagued Honduras. Caceres, a...
The forests of the Amazon are an important carbon sink
Nov 18, 2019 (SPX)
Estimating forest biomass from satellite measurements is still a challenge, as there exists currently no direct measurement method. State-of-the-art satellites ...
Paying countries not to chop down forests works, study shows
Nov 18, 2019 (AFP)
Now they know it does work, according to a study published Monday in the United States. This type of international program -- money for forests -- has appeared ...
Romania's forests under mounting threat -- along with rangers
Nov 18, 2019 (AFP)
In a recent escalation of violence, two rangers were killed within a month of each other in different parts of the country while trying to stop alleged timber t...
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon highest since 2008: official
Nov 18, 2019 (AFP)
The 29.5 percent increase from the previous 12-month period comes after fires ravaged swathes of the Amazon this year, igniting a global outcry and diplomatic f...
Drogba kicks off 'million trees' project in Ivory Coast
Nov 15, 2019 (AFP)
The "One Day, One Million Trees" campaign "is a first step, the start of the recovery," Forestry and Water Resources Minister Alain Richard Donwahi said in Abid...
Indigenous leaders urge EU to protect forest homeland
Nov 12, 2019 (AFP)
The leaders were in Paris as part of a five-week, 12-country tour of Europe, having met with the Pope last month. They are calling on EU governments to ban the ...
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