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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 ...
Indonesian leader threatens sackings over rampant forest fires
Aug 06, 2019 (AFP)
The threat came as Indonesia faced pressure from its neighbours to douse the blazes, which are blamed for sending air quality plummeting in parts of Southeast A...
There's a limit to the rainforest's carbon storage abilities
Aug 06, 2019 (UPI)
Trees pull carbon from the atmosphere, returning some of it in the form of oxygen, while the rest gets stored as biomass. Most climate models assume the carbon ...
Bolsonaro vows to fight 'illegal deforestation' in Brazil
Aug 04, 2019 (AFP)
"We are going to act effectively in the fight against illegal deforestation," Bolsonaro wrote on his Facebook account, along with a video in which environment m...
Brazil research chief says sacked over Bolsonaro deforestation spat
Aug 02, 2019 (AFP)
Ricardo Galvao had accused far-right Bolsonaro of "cowardice" for publicly questioning satellite data produced by the institute, known by its initials INPE, tha...
OU-led study shows improved estimates of Brazilian Amazon gains and losses
Jul 31, 2019 (SPX)
The Amazon basin has the largest tropical forests in the world. Rapid changes in land use, climate and other human activities have resulted in substantial defor...
Going green: Ethiopia's bid to plant four billion trees
Jul 31, 2019 (AFP)
Abiy is leading by example as Ethiopia plans to plant a mind-boggling four billion trees by October, as part of a global movement to restore forests to help fig...
More than 160 land defenders murdered in 2018: watchdog
Jul 30, 2019 (AFP)
The charity watchdog's annual land defenders report found "countless" more people were silenced through violence, intimidation and the use and misuse of anti-pr...
UN condemns killing of Brazil tribal chief amid doubts over murder
Jul 29, 2019 (AFP)
Police deployed to a remote region of Amapa state controlled by the Waiapi tribe are probing last Monday's death of an indigenous leader, whose body was found i...
Brazil police probe tribal leader's killing, village invasion
Jul 28, 2019 (AFP)
The violence in an area of the northern Amapa state controlled by the Waiapi tribe comes as Brazil's indigenous people face growing pressures from miners, ranch...
Finland's UPM to go ahead with $3 bn pulp plant in Uruguay
Jul 23, 2019 (AFP)
It said construction will start in the second half of 2022. The company will spend $2.7 billion to set up the plant itself and $350 million on river port and lo...
Joshua trees facing extinction
Jul 22, 2019 (SPX)
UC Riverside scientists wanted to verify earlier studies predicting global warming's deadly effect on the namesake trees that millions flock to see every year i...
Rare footage of Brazil tribe threatened by loggers: activists
Jul 22, 2019 (AFP)
The 58-second clip filmed in the northern state of Maranhao shows members of the Awa tribe, which Survival International says has been frequently attacked by lo...
Iceland tries to bring back trees razed by the Vikings
Jul 17, 2019 (AFP)
The country is considered the least forested in Europe; indeed, forests in Iceland are so rare, or their trees so young, that people often joke that those lost ...
The global tree restoration potential
Jul 08, 2019 (SPX)
The study is the first to quantify how many trees the Earth can support, where they could exist and how much carbon they could store. It finds that there is pot...
Wood products mitigate less than 1% of global carbon emissions
Jul 08, 2019 (SPX)
An analysis across 180 countries found that global wood products offset 335 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2015, 71 million tons of which were unaccounted fo...
Gabon's timber industry reeling after corruption scandal
Jul 07, 2019 (AFP)
Wood is big money in the central African nation, which is almost 80 percent covered by forests. The timber industry accounts for 17,000 jobs and 60 percent of n...
Reforestation could cut carbon levels by two-thirds, study says
Jul 04, 2019 (AFP)
Bad news: it would require covering an area the size of the United States in new trees, and even then some scientists are skeptical about the paper's conclusion...
Loss of deep-soil water triggered forest die-off in Sierra Nevada
Jul 02, 2019 (UPI)
Between 2012 and 2015, very little rain and snow fell on California. Aquifers shrank and the land dried out. In 2015 and 2016, the worst drought in a century hi...
Some trees make droughts worse, study says
Jun 25, 2019 (UPI)
The loss of trees and vegetation can have a variety of negative effects on ecological health. Often, trees and vegetation help mitigate the damage caused by ext...
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