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Mangroves can help countries mitigate their carbon emissions
Nov 12, 2018 (SPX)
The study, which was conducted by researchers from the Department of Geography at the NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, indicates that nations with large...
Rainforest destruction from gold mining hits all-time high in Peru
Nov 09, 2018 (SPX)
That's an area larger than San Francisco and 30 percent more than previously reported. "The scale of the deforestation is really shocking," said Luis Fernandez,...
Amazon forests failing to keep up with climate change
Nov 08, 2018 (SPX)
The team, led by University of Leeds in collaboration with more than 30 institutions around the world, used long-term records from more than a hundred plots as ...
A New Hope: GEDI to Yield 3D Forest Carbon Map
Nov 08, 2018 (SPX)
GEDI pronounced "Jedi," will soar over both the dark side and the light side of Earth at 17,150 miles per hour. Measurements of the height of foliage, branches,...
Fierce winds raze forests in storm-hit Italy
Nov 03, 2018 (AFP)
An 87-year-old woman and a 62-year-old German tourist were killed Friday after being struck by lightning in Sardinia. It brings to 20 the number of people kille...
Two-thirds of remaining wilderness on Earth located in five countries
Nov 01, 2018 (UPI)
Researchers at the University of Queensland found that between 1993 and 2009, farming, mining and settlement wiped out a land mass of wilderness area larger tha...
Brazil environment ministry condemns Bolsonaro plan
Oct 31, 2018 (AFP)
Bolsonaro's team confirmed Tuesday he would combine the two ministries, drawing condemnation from activists who warned the move would subordinate environmental ...
Economy depends on environment, WWF warns Brazil's Bolsonaro
Oct 31, 2018 (AFP)
The former army captain, who won the giant Latin American country's election Sunday, will merge the agriculture and environment ministries, an adviser confirmed...
Fears for Amazon after Bolsonaro wins Brazil presidency
Oct 29, 2018 (AFP)
Bolsonaro, who won 55 percent of the vote in a run-off on Sunday, issued a series of campaign pledges that left many fearing for the future of the Amazon, known...
Salmon graveyard gives rise to forest in Alaska
Oct 24, 2018 (SPX)
Every summer, thousands of sockeye salmon from Bristol Bay swim upstream, squeezing into the shallow upper reaches of Hansen Creek. They come to spawn and die. ...
Saving the precious wood of Gabon's forests from illegal logging
Oct 24, 2018 (AFP)
Chopping down the kevazingo tree, which can grow to more than 500 years old, has been outlawed in Gabon since March, but that hasn't eased environmental fears. ...
Brazil's Amazon at risk if Bolsonaro wins presidency: ecologists
Oct 23, 2018 (AFP)
The candidate is seen as pliant to the powerful agrobusiness lobby in his country known for putting profit ahead of preservation. One of his most controversial ...
The population of a tropical tree increases mostly in places where it is rare
Oct 22, 2018 (SPX)
In studying Handroanthus guayacan,a common tropical tree species, over a 10-year period, they found that the tree population increased mainly in locations where...
Tracking the movement of the tropics 800 years into the past
Oct 19, 2018 (SPX)
The movement of the tropical boundary affects the locations of Northern Hemisphere deserts including the Sonoran, Mohave and Saharan. Those deserts sit just nor...
Forest carbon stocks have been overestimated for 50 years
Oct 19, 2018 (SPX)
"This new formula should enable us to determine more accurately the role of forests in the carbon cycle and the impact of deforestation on climate change" , say...
Blooming early! Japan's famed cherry blossoms make unexpected appearance
Oct 17, 2018 (AFP)
Experts told local media that the rare late blooms could be the result of this year's unusual weather, including a particularly active typhoon season. Weatherne...
Can forests save us from climate change?
Oct 17, 2018 (SPX)
If you think that sustainable forest management can be a major contributor to mitigating climate change, then you had better not hold your breath. At least not ...
Climate summit host Poland says smart forest management key
Oct 16, 2018 (AFP)
Duda in December will host the COP24 UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland, where world leaders will be under pressure to ramp up national carbon-cutting pledge...
Species-rich forests store twice as much carbon as monocultures
Oct 15, 2018 (SPX)
Stands of trees comprising different numbers of species were planted - from monocultures to highly species-rich plots with 16 different tree species on an area ...
EU forests can't help climate fight: study
Oct 10, 2018 (AFP)
The world's current roadmap to mitigate climate disaster encourages EU nations to use their forests to help suck greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. But Eur...
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