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Tropical trees use unique method to resist drought
Feb 22, 2018 (SPX)
That's good news, since the Amazon stores about 20 percent of all carbon in the Earth's biomass, which helps reduce global warming by lowering the planet's gree...
Poland illegally logged in ancient forest: EU court advisor
Feb 20, 2018 (AFP)
Logging in the Bialowieza Forest began in May 2016 but the European Commission took Poland to court last year arguing that it was destroying a forest that boast...
Polish logging in ancient forest breaches EU law: court advisor
Feb 20, 2018 (AFP)
Logging in the Bialowieza Forest began in May 2016 but the European Commission took Poland to court last year arguing that it was destroying a forest that boast...
A theory of physics explains the fragmentation of tropical forests
Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)
In the scientific journal Nature, they explain how this allows to model and understand the fragmentation of forests on a global scale. They found that forest fr...
Hunting wolves in Serbia's southern forests
Feb 14, 2018 (AFP)
Forbidden in most of western Europe, the blood sport is allowed from July to April in this Balkan country, where wolves are not endangered. Around 800 of them r...
FSU researchers: Savanna fires pump Central African forests full of nitrogen
Feb 13, 2018 (SPX)
Now, two Florida State University researchers are part of a global team of scientists revealing the unexpected role that large-scale fires and high nitrogen dep...
Climate: Two Congos set joint approach for peatland help
Feb 12, 2018 (AFP)
In a joint statement seen by AFP on Monday, the two central African neighbours said they hoped to gain "guarantees, in the form of funding... with the aim of su...
Increased UV from ozone depletion sterilizes trees
Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)
The effect of high UV on conifers and potentially other trees also suggests caution today in introducing chemicals that deplete Earth's ozone layer, which has y...
Deforestation destroys more dry forest than climate change
Feb 05, 2018 (SPX)
A large proportion of Ecuador's rare dry forests are located in the southwest of the country, in the Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena region. These forests provide not on...
Plan to protect Indonesian peatlands with aerial mapping wins $1m
Feb 02, 2018 (AFP)
The cutting-edge technology will be used by authorities to clamp down on illegal clearance of the land for plantations, helping to prevent a repeat of annual fo...
Forest conservation can have greater ecological impacts by allowing sustainable harvesting
Feb 01, 2018 (SPX)
Ecuador contains approximately 2 percent of the Amazon basin, but hosts 44 percent of the Amazon's bird species and enormous tree diversity. To prevent deforest...
Cambodian soldier detained after forest patrol deaths
Feb 01, 2018 (AFP)
A military officer, park ranger and employee of the prominent NGO Wildlife Conservation Society were gunned down Tuesday after seizing a chainsaw from illegal l...
Three gunned down on Cambodian forest patrol: officials
Jan 31, 2018 (AFP)
A military officer, a park ranger and an employee of the prominent NGO Wildlife Conservation Society were shot dead on Tuesday as they were leaving Keo Seima Wi...
Getting to zero deforestation
Jan 30, 2018 (SPX)
"The time is ripe to increase the scope and impact of zero-deforestation commitments by transnational companies, said study lead author Eric Lambin, the George ...
Study shows wetlands provide landscape-scale reduction in nitrogen pollution
Jan 30, 2018 (SPX)
High nitrate concentrations in waterways can be harmful to ecosystems and human health, contaminating drinking water and eventually flowing downstream far enoug...
Chile boosts protected parkland with US philanthropist's donations
Jan 29, 2018 (AFP)
The order signed by President Michelle Bachelet will boost the amount of parks in Chile by more than a third. "Chile needs to take this decisive step to protect...
UNH researchers find human impact on forest still evident after 500 years
Jan 25, 2018 (SPX)
"One of the key mysteries in this area of the world is that no one knows how many people lived in Amazonia before European contact," said Michael Palace, an ass...
Senegal to revamp logging laws after massacre linked to timber trade
Jan 18, 2018 (AFP)
In a statement, Sall said he had instructed the government "to suspend until further orders all authorisations for logging and to immediately proceed with a rev...
Study shows European forest coverage has halved over 6,000 years
Jan 17, 2018 (SPX)
Using pollen analysis from more than 1,000 sites, scientists showed that more than two thirds of central and northern Europe would once have been covered by tre...
Senegal forest massacre: what we know
Jan 12, 2018 (AFP)
A week on, what do we know about the motivations for the killings and their repercussions? - What happened? - On January 6, around 20 men were collecting wood i...
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