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Human activities are drying out the Amazon

Nov 06, 2019 (JPL)

Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, analyzed decades of ground and satellite data over the Amazon rainforest to track both h...

Lost trees hugely overrated as environmental threat, study finds

Nov 05, 2019 (SPX)

Deforestation for timber and farmland is responsible for about 92 billion tons of carbon emissions into the environment since 1900, found a study led by researc...

Amazon fires in Brazil fall to record low in October: official

Nov 04, 2019 (AFP)

Satellite images from the INPE space institute recorded 7,855 fires in the Amazon last month, the lowest for any October since 1998 when the government agency s...

Outrage over killing of 'forest guardian' in Brazil's Amazon

Nov 03, 2019 (AFP)

Paulo Paulino Guajajara and another tribesman, Laercio Guajajara, were ambushed by loggers late Friday as they patrolled the Arariboia territory in the northeas...

Stunning Senegal baobab forest being swallowed by mining

Oct 31, 2019 (AFP)

The bulbous trees are a national symbol in Senegal, where locals have long prized their many uses -- from tea brewing to ropemaking. But a construction boom in ...

Deforestation, human activities accelerated soil erosion 4,000 years ago

Oct 29, 2019 (UPI)

At millennial time scales, rock weathering and soil erosion is dictated by the movement of the planet's tectonic plates and changing climate patterns. But acros...

Romanian rangers protest deaths of colleagues fighting illegal logging

Oct 29, 2019 (AFP)

Environmentalists say deforestation is worsening in Romania, with Greenpeace estimating that 20 million cubic metres of wood (700 million cubic feet) are illega...

From hotbed of crime to joggers' paradise: Nairobi forest thrives

Oct 24, 2019 (AFP)

Karura then was the stuff of urban legend, a fearsome place invoked to scare misbehaving children. Chege and his scouts, stumbling on corpses by day, kept white...

Study reveals dry season increase in photosynthesis in Amazon rain forest

Oct 23, 2019 (SPX)

The Amazon is the largest terrestrial contributor to global atmospheric carbon fluxes, but it has been debated whether photosynthesis in the Amazonian forest in...

International research community calls for recognition of forests' role in human prosperity

Oct 23, 2019 (SPX)

What if more people around the world could be paid to keep forests healthy and intact? And what if doing so would not only curb the climate crisis, but also hel...

Vatican condemns 'defiance' after Amazon statues thrown in river

Oct 21, 2019 (AFP)

Anonymous individuals filmed themselves taking the five statues of a naked, pregnant woman from a church near the Vatican and throwing them from a bridge. The v...

Reforesting is a good idea, but it is necessary to know where and how

Oct 18, 2019 (SPX)

The article attracted enormous media attention. It reports the results of a study in which Bastin and collaborators used remote sensing and modeling techniques ...

Use the Amazon's natural bounty to save it: experts

Oct 18, 2019 (AFP)

"The Amazon has great economic potential", said Nobre, who has studied the tropical habitat for 40 years and contributed to a scientific report for the special ...

Colombia's indigenous on guard against armed groups

Oct 17, 2019 (AFP)

Acosta is coordinator of the national guard, the authority responsible for security in indigenous territory across Colombia, but his men are fighting a losing b...

Planned roads would be 'dagger in the heart' for Borneo's forests and wildlife

Oct 17, 2019 (SPX)

"This network of highways will cut through some of the last expanses of intact forest in Borneo, greatly increasing pressures from loggers, poachers, farmers an...

Researchers map the evolutionary history of oaks

Oct 15, 2019 (SPX)

Fundamental questions about relationships between organisms and the genes that drive ecological diversification underlie the secrets of biodiversity. Understand...

Sharing data for improved forest protection and monitoring

Oct 11, 2019 (SPX)

Forest biomass is an essential indicator for monitoring the Earth's ecosystems and climate. It also provides critical input to greenhouse gas accounting, estima...

Ancient Maya canals and fields show early and extensive impacts on tropical forests

Oct 08, 2019 (SPX)

Prior research proposed that the Maya's advanced urban and rural infrastructure altered ecosystems within globally important tropical forests. But in the first ...

Our Amazon: Brazilians who live in the world's biggest rainforest

Oct 08, 2019 (AFP)

Three residents of Para state talked to AFP about their lives and hopes for the region, where a surge in deforestation and fires this year has sparked a global ...

Life of misery for Brazil's Amazon pioneers

Oct 08, 2019 (AFP)

Locatelli was part of a wave of pioneers who moved to the fringes of the Trans-Amazonian highway, after it was constructed by the military dictatorship to popul...