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Secondary forests have short lifespans
Oct 08, 2018 (SPX)
The finding presents a major problem for large-scale restoration policy, which often focuses on commitments to restore a certain number of hectares by a given y...
Climate change, pests, fallen trees a deadly recipe for US forests
Oct 02, 2018 (AFP)
The crisis is all the more alarming as hundreds of millions of hectares of land were scorched this summer out west in several states, causing a dozen or so deat...
National parks bear the brunt of climate change
Oct 01, 2018 (SPX)
Without action to limit greenhouse gas emissions, many small mammals and plants may be brought to the brink of extinction by the end of the century, the study s...
How leaves talk to roots
Oct 01, 2018 (SPX)
An international research team reveals that a small RNA sequence, called micro RNA miR2111, travels from leaves to roots in legume plants that can form a nitrog...
Chile launches immense scenic route connecting 17 national parks
Sep 26, 2018 (AFP)
The Patagonian "Route of Parks" connects 17 national parks covering 11.5 million hectares (28.4 million acres), an area three times the size of Switzerland. The...
Gabon pressures forestry firms on best practice
Sep 26, 2018 (AFP)
Ondimba made the statement in support of a certification process run by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), an international NGO devoted to better forestry ma...
Wetlands disappearing three times faster than forests: study
Sep 26, 2018 (AFP)
"We are in a crisis," Martha Rojas Urrego, head of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, told reporters in Geneva, warning of the potential devastating impact of w...
Once majestic Atlantic Forest 'empty' after 500 years of over-exploitation
Sep 26, 2018 (SPX)
A new analysis of mammal populations, published in the journal PLoS ONE, has revealed the devastating effects of human disturbance over the last 500 years. More...
Coastal wetlands will survive rising seas, but only if we let them
Sep 24, 2018 (SPX)
A new study predicts such wetlands will survive rising seas to buffer the world's coastlines against future storms and provide their many other ecological and e...
Coal plant offsets with carbon capture means covering 89 percent of the US in forests
Sep 20, 2018 (SPX)
Zero-emission energy has been offered as a way to offset the carbon dioxide production while still maintaining coal's electricity generation. That's done throug...
Indigenous peoples, key to saving forests, catch a break
Sep 14, 2018 (AFP)
New "guiding principles" for collaboration endorsed by three dozen mostly tropical provinces and states across nine countries bolster indigenous rights to land,...
Natural mechanism could lower emissions from tropical peatlands
Sep 14, 2018 (SPX)
A new international study headed by researchers at Florida State University and Duke University, reveals the outlook may not be as bleak. It finds that these sw...
Mangrove expansion and climatic warming may help ecosystems keep pace with sea level rise
Sep 11, 2018 (SPX)
In a landmark study titled "Warming accelerates mangrove expansion and surface elevation gain in a subtropical wetland" a team of Villanova University biologist...
How the forest copes with the summer heat
Sep 11, 2018 (SPX)
A current study by the University of Basel indicates now that native forest trees can cope much better with the drought than previously expected. It is, however...
Manmade mangroves could get to the 'root' of the problem for threats to coastal areas
Sep 11, 2018 (SPX)
Growing from a tangle of roots that twist their way out of the mud, mangrove trees naturally protect shorelines, shelter coastal ecosystem habitats and provide ...
Norway builds world's tallest timber tower
Sep 05, 2018 (AFP)
The Mjos Tower, which is situated near and named after a lake located about 100 kilometres (60 miles) north of Oslo, saw its last beam hoisted by a crane this w...
Species-rich forests better compensate environmental impacts
Aug 31, 2018 (SPX)
As part of the global carbon cycle, forests take up about 45 percent of the carbon from the environment and bind it in the soil and as biomass over long periods...
Carbon reserves in Central American soils still affected by ancient Mayan deforestation
Aug 30, 2018 (SPX)
The findings, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, underscore how important soils and our treatment of them could be in determining future levels of gree...
Tree species richness in Amazonian wetlands is three times greater than expected
Aug 29, 2018 (SPX)
According to a new study, the region's wetlands are inhabited by 3,615 tree species--three times more than previously estimated, making these the world's most d...
'Natural enemies' theory doesn't fully explain rainforests' biodiversity
Aug 23, 2018 (UPI)
The Janzen-Connell hypothesis posits that each species in a tropical forest has a natural enemy. Competition between natural enemies, theoretically, keeps speci...
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