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Road construction accelerates deforestation in the Congo, study shows
Jun 24, 2019 (UPI)
During the past two decades, the rise in the number of roads crisscrossing the Congo Basin has enabled an uptick in a range of illegal activities, including log...
'Mr. Green': British environmentalist is Gabon's new forestry minister
Jun 14, 2019 (AFP)
This is the challenge facing Lee White, a green activist born in Britain, who this week was named minister of water and forests in Gabon. White, who has lived i...
Big brands breaking pledge to not destroy forests: report
Jun 11, 2019 (AFP)
Some of the world's largest consumer brands -- including Nestle and Unilever -- had pledged in 2010 to reach net zero deforestation within a decade through "res...
Some older forests better suited to change with the climate
Jun 10, 2019 (SPX)
The study, to be published in Global Change Biology's June 12 edition, analyzed how climate change is expected to impact forests across the eastern United State...
Sri Lanka to ban chainsaws, timber mills: president
Jun 07, 2019 (AFP)
Sirisena highlighted his determination to clamp down on illegal logging and increase the amount of territory devoted to forests at an environmental conference. ...
A forest 'glow' reveals awakening from hibernation
May 28, 2019 (SPX)
The total production of chemical energy resulting from photosynthesis is called Gross Primary Production (GPP). GPP in evergreen forests tells scientists how mu...
Eastern forests shaped more by Native Americans' burning than climate change
May 22, 2019 (SPX)
"I believe Native Americans were excellent vegetation managers and we can learn a lot from them about how to best manage forests of the U.S.," said Marc Abrams,...
Gabon leader sacks vice president, forestry minister
May 21, 2019 (AFP)
The president did not give a reason for the sackings of Vice President Pierre Claver Maganga Moussavou and Forestry and Environment Minister Guy Bertrand Mapang...
Amount of carbon stored in forests reduced as climate warms
May 20, 2019 (SPX)
The team, led by the University of Cambridge, found that as temperatures increase, trees grow faster, but they also tend to die younger. When these fast-growing...
Mapping microbial symbioses in forests
May 20, 2019 (SPX)
Stanford University researchers worked alongside a team of over 200 scientists to generate these maps, published May 16 in Nature. From the work, they revealed ...
Top Gabon officials suspended in timber scandal
May 16, 2019 (AFP)
Government spokeswoman Nanette Longa-Makinda said several top administration officials had been suspended. Nearly 5,000 cubic metres (177,000 cubic feet) of kev...
A late-night disco in the forest reveals tree performance
May 14, 2019 (SPX)
Chlorophyll fluorescence relates to photosynthesis and the health status of plants, and it can be measured from a distance, for example from towers, drones, air...
Big Brother-style surveillance gives new insight into Amazon's hidden wildlife
May 14, 2019 (AFP)
The Big Brother-style Providence Project was launched two years ago by French scientist Michel Andre of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and Mamiraua Sus...
Brazilian giant's comeback shows preservation and development of Amazon is possible
May 14, 2019 (AFP)
The resurgence of one of the world's largest freshwater fish is the result of Brazil's yearslong efforts to combine scientific and traditional know-how to prese...
Gabon threatens crackdown over theft of sacred wood
May 13, 2019 (AFP)
Customs officers had discovered the collection of rare hardwood worth millions of dollars in February and March at two Chinese-owned depots at the Owendo timber...
Researchers document the oldest known trees in eastern North America
May 10, 2019 (SPX)
David Stahle, Distinguished Professor of geosciences, along with colleagues from the university's Ancient Bald Cypress Consortium and other conservation groups,...
Climate change is giving old trees a growth spurt
May 10, 2019 (SPX)
A new study of growth rings from Dahurian larch in China's northern forests finds the hardy trees grew more from 2005 to 2014 than in the preceding 40 years. Th...
Illegal haul of Gabonese sacred wood disappears
May 08, 2019 (AFP)
More than 350 containers confiscated by the authorities were found to have "curiously disappeared" on April 30, said Libreville prosecutor Olivier N'Zahou quote...
Attacks on Brazil's ecological paradises threaten biodiversity
May 02, 2019 (AFP)
Brazil's rich biodiversity is under attack from multiple fronts, including landowners who cut down multi-storied trees to make way for soya bean crops, clandest...
19 arrested in Brazil raids over illegal Amazon logging
Apr 25, 2019 (AFP)
The operation coincided with a huge protest in the capital Brasilia by indigenous people demanding better protection of their lands from miners, loggers and far...
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