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Police detain protesters in primeval forest dispute

Nov 09, 2017 (AFP)

Critics say Poland's right-wing government is defying a European Court of Justice injunction to suspend logging in the forest, but the environmental ministry sa...

UN's number two accused in Chinese scam to import Nigerian rosewood

Nov 09, 2017 (AFP)

Documents provided by Mohammed were used by Chinese importers to clear more than $300 million worth of rosewood logs held up by Chinese border authorities for m...

It takes a microclimate to raise a pinyon tree

Nov 08, 2017 (SPX)

Microclimates are localized climates found within a larger one, like that of a cool canyon in the desert Southwest. These microclimates occur because of local d...

Protecting 'high carbon' rainforest areas also protects threatened wildlife

Nov 08, 2017 (SPX)

To help mitigate the effects of climate change, policies have been developed across the world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by reducing deforestation. Much...

Could the peatlands of Congo be a carbon bomb?

Nov 08, 2017 (AFP)

Scientists and green campaigners say central Africa's peatlands hold gigatonnes of carbon -- a stockpile that poses a grave threat to hopes of limiting global w...

For Amazon tribe, rainforest is a whole world

Nov 06, 2017 (AFP)

Food like coconuts, roots and bananas grows plentifully. Animals and fish are readily available for hunting, and the bark of many trees has medicinal uses. Just...

Beer o'clock in the Amazon: the tribe that loves to party

Nov 02, 2017 (AFP)

Members of the tiny, remote Waiapi tribe in Brazil's eastern Amazon raise calabash gourds to their painted faces and quaff the homemade brew they call caxiri. D...

Melting snow aids absorption of carbon dioxide

Nov 01, 2017 (ESA)

Scientists believe that global warming is primarily caused by carbon dioxide emissions from human activities such as burning coal, the oil and gas industry, tra...

Honduran state, power company, involved in activist murder: experts

Oct 31, 2017 (AFP)

The murder of Berta Caceres, 45, gunned down last year, highlighted the threat to Honduran activists and sparked international outrage. Caceres opposed plans by...

Peatland plants adapting well to climate change

Oct 31, 2017 (SPX)

In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, experts show that, even though certain species in a peat bog's plant 'community' might disappear beca...

Tropical forest reserves slow down global warming

Oct 31, 2017 (SPX)

An audit of the role protected areas of tropical forest play in preventing global warming shows they are preventing the release of three times as much carbon in...

Peat bogs defy the laws of biodiversity

Oct 30, 2017 (SPX)

They found that peat bog properties remained the same across the board, demonstrating a surprising ability to adapt to climatic variation. This is because speci...

Amazonian hunters deplete wildlife but don't empty forests

Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)

Human exploitation of natural resources is a key driver of global biodiversity loss. In tropical forests, overhunting has been implicated in widespread local sp...

Indigenous groups warn Paris accord imperiled by deforestation

Oct 24, 2017 (AFP)

In "a declaration of the guardians of the forest," the coalition of indigenous groups called on countries to help stop the killing of its leaders, ensure legal ...

Forest fires contributed to record global tree cover loss

Oct 24, 2017 (AFP)

The alarming pace of destruction -- 51 percent higher than the prior year with a loss of 73.4 million acres (29.7 million hectares), according to data from the ...

Tropical tree roots represent an underappreciated carbon pool

Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)

"Studies like the article published by Baccini et al in the Sept. 28 issue of Science use satellite data to measure aboveground carbon density," said Jefferson ...

More trees, better farming could slash carbon emissions: study

Oct 16, 2017 (AFP)

Better land use could reduce carbon dioxide 37 percent, enough to hold global warming below two degrees Celsius by 2030, as called for by the 2015 Paris Agreeme...

Conservation cutbacks put Brazil's Amazon animals at risk

Oct 13, 2017 (AFP)

During the dry season in Brazil's Amazon, the Purus River snaking through the Medio Purus Extractive Reserve shrinks to leave vast beaches on which thousands of...

Global kids study: More trees, less disease

Oct 10, 2017 (SPX)

Published in Nature Communications, the study is the first to quantify the connection between watershed quality and individual health outcomes of children at th...

Predicting insect feeding preferences after deforestation

Oct 09, 2017 (SPX)

For example, wasps in the genus Melittobia attack pollinating bumblebees. Parasitoid wasp larvae feed on the pupae of nesting bees, and their fast reproduction ...