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Growing need for urban forests as urban land expands

Mar 19, 2018 (SPX)

A USDA Forest Service study published in the Journal of Forestry, "U.S. Urban Forest Statistics, Values and Projections," estimates change in urban land on a na...

Latin America's 'magic tree' slowly coming back to life

Mar 19, 2018 (AFP)

Widely adaptable, the tree is resistant to drought -- though not, sadly, to man. Deforestation has decimated the bountiful tree, whose leaves and fruit have for...

UN schemes to save forests 'can trample on tribal rights'

Mar 18, 2018 (AFP)

The latest sign that these schemes -- which pay to restore tropical forests rather than cut them down -- are falling short comes from the Democratic Republic of...

Development threatens Latin America's great Pantanal wetlands

Mar 17, 2018 (AFP)

Rodrigues, 63, shows off the thick stands of palms and other native plants crowding around the fish-filled, crystalline water. The garden in the tiny community ...

Cash payments prompt tropical forest users to harvest less

Mar 16, 2018 (SPX)

The study, published Monday in the journal Nature Sustainability, also found that when forest users trust each other, their conservation efforts are further enh...

Areas where homes, forests mix increased rapidly over two decades

Mar 14, 2018 (SPX)

Both the number of homes in the WUI and total footprint of the WUI are growing rapidly, and this expansion has many implications for wildfire management and oth...

Increasing tree mortality in a warming world

Mar 14, 2018 (SPX)

And scientists believe the trend will continue. "No matter how you look at it, trees in the moist tropics will likely die at elevated rates through the end of t...

Locked in a forest

Mar 14, 2018 (SPX)

That's according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) coauthored by Umakant Mishra - a geospatial scientist in the Envir...

Elephant declines imperil Africa's forests

Mar 13, 2018 (SPX)

"Without intervention to stop poaching, as much as 96 percent of Central Africa's forests will undergo major changes in tree-species composition and structure a...

India forest fires kill 9 hikers, injure 18 others

Mar 12, 2018 (AFP)

The group were hiking through Theni district, a hilly region in southern India thickly forested and dotted with tea plantations, when they were forced to flee a...

Diverse tropical forests grow fast despite widespread phosphorus limitation

Mar 08, 2018 (SPX)

Researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) resolved this apparent contradiction, showing that phosphorus limits the growth of individual ...

Tropical forest response to drought depends on age

Mar 07, 2018 (SPX)

Mario Bretfeld, who works in the lab of UW Department of Botany Professor Brent Ewers, is the lead author of an article that appears Monday in the journal New P...

African jobs at risk over French wood giant bankruptcy

Mar 06, 2018 (AFP)

The 95-year-old company blamed major logistical problems at the port of Doula in Cameroon, as well as delays to tax refunds due from several Africa states which...

Chanel attacked for felling trees for Paris fashion show

Mar 06, 2018 (AFP)

The veteran German creator turned the Grand Palais into a forest, with tonnes of dead leaves strewn on mirrored steps and nine tall mossy trees planted down the...

Payments to protect carbon stored in forests must increase to defend against rubber

Mar 06, 2018 (SPX)

Efforts to protect tropical forests in Southeast Asia for the carbon they store may fail because protection payments are too low - according to University of Ea...

Beetles face extinction due to loss of old trees

Mar 05, 2018 (AFP)

Many saproxylic -- literally, "dead wood" -- beetles could disappear if remaining old-growth trees are not allowed to decline naturally, according to a report b...

Honduras energy executive arrested over activist murder

Mar 04, 2018 (AFP)

Police detained electrical engineer Roberto David Castillo Mejia "as the intellectual perpetrator" behind Caceres's murder, the prosecutor's office said in a st...

Geological change confirmed as factor behind extensive diversity in tropical rainforests

Mar 01, 2018 (SPX)

In a project undertaken by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in collaboration with Dutch research institutions, the causes of this plant diversity were ...

Reforesting US topsoils store massive amounts of carbon, with potential for much more

Feb 28, 2018 (SPX)

But for more than 20 years, experts have warned that the strength of this carbon "sink" is declining and will level off around mid-century. One way to compensat...

Drier conditions could doom Rocky Mountain spruce and fir trees

Feb 27, 2018 (SPX)

The findings, which were published in the journal Ecology, show that spruce and fir tree establishment was limited to a handful of years with above average snow...