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Brazil highways drive Amazon development -- and destruction

Oct 08, 2019 (AFP)

Fransuer is one of thousands of truckers plying the BR230 and BR163, major transport routes that have played a key role in the development and destruction of th...

India's top court halts tree felling after protests

Oct 07, 2019 (AFP)

Some 2,700 trees were being cut down in the financial capital Mumbai to make way for a depot for subway carriages in the city of nearly 20 million people. But t...

Priest shortage in Amazon eroding Catholic influence: bishops

Oct 04, 2019 (AFP)

Wilmar Santin, one of scores of Brazilian bishops set to attend the October 6-27 gathering, says the church is ceding ground to more nimble Evangelical rivals a...

Over half of Europe's endemic trees risk extinction: experts

Sep 27, 2019 (AFP)

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said out of the 454 tree species native to Europe, 42 percent could disappear from the continent. And ...

Germany's climate-stressed trees face 'catastrophe' as bugs attack

Sep 25, 2019 (AFP)

After two unusually hot summers in a row, vast patches of the forests mythologised by medieval fairytales, Goethe's writings and Romantic painters have turned i...

'Media is lying' about Amazon devastation, says Brazil's Bolsonaro

Sep 25, 2019 (AFP)

Speaking first at this year's UN General Assembly, the far-right leader also heaped praise on his American counterpart Donald Trump for respecting his country's...

Gabon minister hails country's responsiblity after historic forest deal

Sep 23, 2019 (AFP)

That's the underlying philosophy of a new accord signed on Sunday between Norway and Gabon, which will become the first African country paid to preserve its for...

Gabon to be first African nation paid to fight deforestation

Sep 22, 2019 (AFP)

Norway will provide Gabon, which is almost 90 percent covered by forest, with $150 million (136 million euros) to battle deforestation, according to the Central...

As global leaders meet, the Amazon rainforest burns

Sep 21, 2019 (AFP)

The latest satellite data from Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) shows 131,600 fires burning since January within the country, where 60 perc...

Tree-planting to offset carbon emissions: no cure-all

Sep 18, 2019 (AFP)

But as more polluting industries join efforts to offset their carbon emissions, the effectiveness of the approach is open to debate, with some critics suggestin...

Rights group says Bolsonaro gives 'green light' to Amazon illegal loggers

Sep 17, 2019 (AFP)

Bolsonaro, whose anti-environment rhetoric and policies have been widely blamed for a spike in fires and land clearing in the Amazon this year, has promised to ...

Water or Gold? Eternal question nags Ecuador tribes

Sep 14, 2019 (AFP)

"We have to decide between gold and water," he tells activists at a meeting held to oppose a landmark mining project. "What do we prefer, companeros?" demands P...

US, Brazil press private sector in Amazon

Sep 13, 2019 (AFP)

Meeting in Washington, the top diplomats of the Western Hemisphere's two most populous countries vowed to build on cooperation between their right-wing presiden...

Bolsonaro's scorched earth diplomacy could cost Brazil

Sep 10, 2019 (AFP)

The far-right head of state has made a habit of speaking undiplomatically, wading into disputes with foreign leaders particularly when it comes to defending Bra...

Pope pleads with Madagascans to protect rainforest

Sep 07, 2019 (AFP)

Weeks after a spike of fires in the Amazon, the Argentine pontiff told his hosts they should "create jobs and money-making activities which respect the environm...

Amazon countries meet to bolster rainforest protection

Sep 06, 2019 (AFP)

The summit took place in the wake of an international outcry over months of raging fires that have devastated swaths of the Amazon in Brazil and Bolivia. The ga...

Should the international community protect the Amazon?

Sep 06, 2019 (AFP)

Amid global concern about fires in the Amazon, some activists as well as French President Emmanuel Macron have backed the idea of the international community ta...

Diversity breeds stability in forest ecosystems

Sep 05, 2019 (UPI)

For the study, published this week in the journal Global Change Biology, scientists at the University of Freiburg analyzed data from the longest-running field t...

Bolsonaro accuses UN rights chief of meddling, praises Pinochet

Sep 04, 2019 (AFP)

Fresh from a spat with French President Emmanuel Macron over his management of wildfires raging in the Amazon, Bolsonaro took aim at Bachelet for allegedly medd...

Amazon's 'tallest tree' safe from fires, say scientists

Sep 04, 2019 (AFP)

The scientists say they located an unusually large specimen of the giant Dinizia Excelsa species -- measuring 88 meters (288-feet) with a circumference of 5.50 ...