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Brazil's Forest Code can balance the needs of agriculture and the environment
Jul 18, 2018 (SPX)
The team, which included researchers from several international institutions, was led by IIASA researcher Aline Soterroni and Brazil's National Institute for Sp...
Pollution makes trees more vulnerable to drought
Jul 16, 2018 (UPI)
Research showed particulate matter caused leaves to transpire, which could exasperate the ill effects of a drought. Several recent surveys suggest prolonged dro...
Forest growth limited over next 60 years, study finds
Jul 13, 2018 (UPI)
Forests play a critical role in slowing the effects of climate change because trees absorb the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they grow and store the car...
NASA Surveys Hurricane Damage to Puerto Rico's Forests
Jul 12, 2018 (SPX)
In April a team of NASA scientists traveled to Puerto Rico with airborne instrumentation to survey damages from Hurricane Maria to the island's forests. "From t...
Brazil's green candidate aims to restore 'credibility'
Jul 10, 2018 (AFP)
"One crucial thing is to drag the country out of the crisis due to the lack of investments," Silva told AFP in an interview in Brasilia. "Everyone is hoping for...
UN report urges nations to take better care of world's forests
Jul 06, 2018 (UPI)
The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's State of the World's Forests report said in addition to shade, absorption of carbon dioxide, animal habitation and ...
World's poorest unfairly shoulder costs of tropical forest conservation
Jul 05, 2018 (UPI)
When local communities are prevented from harvesting the natural resources contained within tropical forests, their economic opportunities are diminished. Many ...
Southeast Asian forest loss greater than expected, with negative climate implications
Jul 04, 2018 (SPX)
Zhenzhong Zeng, a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University and the lead author of a July 2 article describing the findings in Nature Geoscience, said the...
How mangroves help keep the planet cool
Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)
"We took a huge step further by testing a robust model that more clearly defines the global variation of carbon storage of coastlines taking into account differ...
I.Coast to invest 1 billion euros to replenish forest cover
Jul 02, 2018 (AFP)
The West African country supplies two million tonnes of cocoa to the world market annually and the commodity is a mainstay of the economy. Mighty Earth, an NGO,...
Illegal logging threatens DR Congo forest, say investigators
Jun 26, 2018 (AFP)
Global Witness said it had investigated the activities of Lichtenstein-based company Norsudtimber in the DRC, a former Belgian colony, for two years. "Norsudtim...
Envisioning a future where all the trees in Europe disappear
Jun 26, 2018 (SPX)
With this as a backdrop, a team of researchers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Justus-Liebig University Giessen in Germany decided t...
'Green gold': Pakistan plants hundreds of millions of trees
Jun 26, 2018 (AFP)
In 2015 and 2016 some 16,000 labourers planted more than 900,000 fast-growing eucalyptus trees at regular, geometric intervals in Heroshah -- and the titanic ta...
Palm oil giant still linked to Indonesia logging: Greenpeace
Jun 25, 2018 (AFP)
Singapore-listed Wilmar International has close family ties to Gama, a major Indonesian palm oil plantation company which the environmental group said has destr...
Loss of Earth's intact forests speeds up: scientists
Jun 20, 2018 (AFP)
Despite UN-led efforts to halt deforestation, nearly ten percent of undisturbed forests have been fragmented, degraded or simply chopped down since 2000, accord...
'Shocking' die-off of Africa's oldest baobabs
Jun 11, 2018 (AFP)
The trees, aged between 1,100 and 2,500 years and some as wide as a bus is long, may have fallen victim to climate change, the team speculated. "We report that ...
New research finds tall and older Amazonian forests more resistant to droughts
May 29, 2018 (SPX)
Climate change could threaten the fate of rainforests, but there is great uncertainty about the future ability of rainforests to store carbon. While severe drou...
Zangbeto: voodoo saviour of Benin's mangroves
May 27, 2018 (AFP)
The Zangbeto -- the traditional voodoo guardian of the night -- once policed the streets to maintain law and order and scare away its enemies. But the revered d...
New technique reveals details of forest fire recovery
May 22, 2018 (SPX)
According to a team of ecologists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory, a new technique using a combination of much higher-resoluti...
Forest loss in one part of US can harm trees on the opposite coast
May 17, 2018 (SPX)
A University of Washington-led study published May 16 in Environmental Research Letters shows that forest die-offs in specific regions of the United States can ...
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