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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...
Defiant Bolsonaro vows to defend Amazon policy 'in wheelchair' at UN
Sep 02, 2019 (AFP)
"I will appear before the UN even in a wheelchair, on a stretcher. I will appear because I want to talk about the Amazon," Bolsonaro told reporters outside his ...
Fires not the only threat facing Amazon
Aug 31, 2019 (AFP)
The Amazon, covering 5.5 million square kilometers (2.1 million square miles) over nine countries, faces ever more serious threats from encroaching crop and liv...
Heat, wildfires could alter Alaska's forest composition
Aug 26, 2019 (UPI)
According to a new study, published this week in the journal Nature Plants, warmer temperatures and the threat of fire is likely to enable the spread of deciduo...
G7 pledges millions to fight Amazon fires
Aug 26, 2019 (AFP)
"We must respond to the call of the forest which is burning today in the Amazon," France's Emmanuel Macron said as President Sebastian Pinera of Chile, a guest ...
Why is part of the Amazon burning?
Aug 24, 2019 (AFP)
The dramatic scale of this year's fires is the result of a significant acceleration of deforestation for the lumber industry, for agriculture or for other human...
Connected forest networks on oil palm plantations key to protecting endangered species
Aug 23, 2019 (SPX)
There is growing pressure to reduce the consumption of palm oil due to concerns over deforestation. However, the research team, led by the University of York, s...
Amazon rainforest absorbing less carbon than expected
Aug 23, 2019 (SPX)
An international team of scientists, including climate scientists from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), investig...
Out of date photos of Amazon fires in Brazil fuel online outrage
Aug 21, 2019 (AFP)
Under the hashtag #PrayforAmazonas, users have expressed outrage over official data showing a surge in wildfires in the world's biggest rainforest between Janua...
DR Congo president warns over risk to forest reserves
Aug 21, 2019 (AFP)
The Congo River basin forest region is one of the largest in the world after the Amazon and, like the South American rain forests, it plays a vital role in abso...
Banned timber at centre of Gabon graft scandal to be auctioned
Aug 19, 2019 (AFP)
In February, the authorities seized 353 container-loads of kevazingo, a precious wood that is highly prized in Asia but which is protected under Gabonese law, a...
Autopsy shows Brazil tribal chief drowned, say officials
Aug 16, 2019 (AFP)
Tribal leaders had blamed Emyra Waiapi's death on "non-indigenous people" after finding his remains in a river on July 23 -- several days before heavily armed m...
Trans-Brazil trail raises hopes for future of Atlantic Forest
Aug 16, 2019 (AFP)
He says he hopes that the creation of the trail, one of the world's longest, will raise awareness about the fragility of the forest -- long devastated by logger...
Mexican start-up fights air pollution with artificial trees
Aug 15, 2019 (AFP)
Enter the BioUrban, an artificial tree that sucks up as much air pollution as 368 real trees. Designed by a Mexican start-up, the towering metal structure uses ...
Norway blocks 30 mn-euro deforestation subsidy to Brazil
Aug 15, 2019 (AFP)
Days after Germany also withdrew money promised for forest protection in Brazil, Norway said the South American nation "broke the agreement" with contributors t...
Stanford-led study gauges trees' and carbon sequestration
Aug 13, 2019 (SPX)
An international team led by scientists at Stanford University and the Autonomous University of Barcelona finds reason to hope trees will continue to suck up ca...
Structurally complex forests better at carbon sequestration
Aug 13, 2019 (SPX)
The study demonstrates for the first time that a forest's structural complexity is a better predictor of carbon sequestration potential than tree species divers...
African forest elephant helps increase biomass and carbon storage
Aug 13, 2019 (SPX)
However, its importance is even greater than that, according to a new international study. With contributions from Brazilian researchers affiliated with the Uni...
Climate change could wipe out California's Joshua trees by end of century
Aug 08, 2019 (AFP)
A team from the University of California at Riverside used data from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to assess the impact of warming on the distri...
Brazilian Amazon deforestation surges, embattled institute says
Aug 07, 2019 (AFP)
The National Institute for Space Research, known by its initials INPE, said that deforestation had cleared 870 square miles (around 2,250 square kilometers) of ...
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