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Tropical forest the size of England destroyed in 2018: report

Apr 25, 2019 (AFP)

The pace of the loss is staggering -- the equivalent of 30 football fields disappearing every minute of every day in 2018, or a total of 120,000 square kilometr...

Illegal logging in Brazil turns Amazon into a powder keg

Apr 24, 2019 (AFP)

"Every day, we find new trees cut down. I've never seen anything like this," laments the 41-year-old, a leader of the Arara indigenous people in the northern st...

Neotropical cloud forests to lose what most defines them: Clouds

Apr 23, 2019 (SPX)

Cloud forests are the misty forests found high on tropical mountains. Frequently cloud-enshrouded, many are reminiscent of fairy-tale forests, having twisted, s...

NY museum scraps Bolsonaro event after complaints

Apr 16, 2019 (AFP)

The leader, who has been attacked at home and abroad for policies that critics say threaten the environment and indigenous communities, was due to receive an aw...

Return of GEDI's First Data Reveals the Third Dimension of Forests

Apr 16, 2019 (SPX)

GEDI's mission provides scientists detailed information about forest structure: How tall the forest is, how dense its branches are, and the vertical and horizon...

Canada to appeal WTO ruling on US 'zeroing' in lumber row

Apr 15, 2019 (AFP)

A WTO Dispute Settlement Body panel last week rejected Ottawa's argument that the US use of the method known as "zeroing" violated international trade rules. In...

Gabon suspends permit for Chinese logger after watchdog probe

Apr 12, 2019 (AFP)

The EIA, in a report on March 25, said Dejia Group "routinely bribes ministers" in Gabon and the neighbouring Republic of Congo. The group has "continuously bro...

Help NASA Measure Trees with Your Smartphone

Mar 27, 2019 (SPX)

The GLOBE Observer app provides a step-by-step guide for people to collect scientific data on their surroundings. With the new GLOBE Trees feature of the app, o...

US-China trade war 'imperils' Amazon forest, experts warn

Mar 27, 2019 (AFP)

Over the last eight months, the US and China have slapped tariffs on more than $360 billion in two-way goods trade, weighing on the manufacturing sectors in bot...

Bolsonaro says Brazil owes world nothing on environment

Mar 23, 2019 (AFP)

The far right leader, who is critical of the Paris climate change accord, was speaking in Chile following Friday's launch off PROSUR, a conservative-minded grou...

Project promises to turn palm oil plantations back into rainforest in Borneo

Mar 22, 2019 (UPI)

The list of species threatened by deforestation as a result of palm oil production in Malaysia and Indonesia includes the orangutan, Sumatran elephant, Bornean ...

Floodplain forests under threat

Mar 20, 2019 (SPX)

Floodplain forests dominated by oaks are among the most at risk in Europe. Through conversion to arable land and pastures, as well as settlements, they have los...

USAID and NASA harness science, technology for Amazon sustainability

Mar 19, 2019 (SPX)

Operating as a regional hub, SERVIR-Amazonia will help people and institutions use satellite observations and geospatial tools to track environmental changes, e...

Largest carbon dioxide sink in renewable forests

Mar 14, 2019 (SPX)

Forests are considered major carbon sinks. These are ecosystems binding large amounts of carbon, thus retarding CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere and, hence, c...

Billions pledged to halt Africa's forest loss

Mar 14, 2019 (AFP)

So far this century East Africa alone has lost around 6 million hectares of forest, swathes of which contain plants and wildlife found nowhere else on Earth. "O...

As sea level rises, wetlands crank up their carbon storage

Mar 07, 2019 (SPX)

Coastal wetlands, which include marshes, mangroves and seagrasses, already store carbon more efficiently than any other natural ecosystem, including forests. Th...

Culturally sensitive conservation approaches needed to protect Ethiopian church forests

Mar 07, 2019 (SPX)

Due to land-use changes, such as roads and agriculture, forested area that once covered much of northern Ethiopia has disappeared. The last remaining forests ex...

Origin and species: fighting illegal logging with science

Mar 06, 2019 (AFP)

Beakers bubble away on a hotplate, while suspect guitars that have been sent by customs officials for testing sit on top of shelves lined with tattered old jour...

Peru opens military base to protect Amazon from deforestation

Mar 06, 2019 (AFP)

"The government has taken the political decision to be present in this region to eradicate illegal mining," said Defense Minister Jose Huerta at the inauguratio...

Gabon seizes haul of 'sacred' wood: NGO

Mar 06, 2019 (AFP)

About 1,000 cubic metres of the rare hardwood -- or 30 large container-loads -- were confiscated along with other wood in a warehouse at the Owendo timber port ...