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DNA barcoding technology helping monitor health of all-important boreal forest
Oct 09, 2017 (SPX)
Cutting-edge DNA metabarcoding technology developed by the University of Guelph can help speed up and improve the monitoring process, according to a new study p...
Carbon feedback from forest soils will accelerate global warming
Oct 09, 2017 (SPX)
Overall, the results indicate that in a warming world, a self-reinforcing and perhaps uncontrollable carbon feedback will occur between forest soils and the cli...
Italy's high-rise forests take root around the world
Oct 08, 2017 (AFP)
The brainchild of Milanese architect Stefano Boeri, the Bosco Verticale (Vertical Forest) uses more than 20,000 trees and plants to adorn the high-rise building...
Poland rejects EU evidence on primeval forest dispute
Sep 29, 2017 (AFP)
During a court hearing in Luxembourg on September 11, the European Commission's representative showed satellite images of Bialowieza to show that Warsaw is defy...
Forest loss means tropics emit more carbon than they trap: study
Sep 28, 2017 (AFP)
The analysis in the journal Science relies on 12 years (2003-2014) of satellite imagery, laser remote sensing technology and field measurements. This approach a...
Brazil scraps bid to mine Amazon natural reserve
Sep 26, 2017 (AFP)
President Michel Temer's office will issue a new decree Tuesday that "restores the conditions of the area, according to the document that instituted the reserve...
American oaks share a common northern ancestor
Sep 21, 2017 (SPX)
These two findings - simultaneous evolutionary diversification in the red and white oaks, each following the same geographic routes; and two relatively recent o...
Restored forest now shelters dozens of endangered species
Sep 19, 2017 (SPX)
With the help of their locally recruited assistants, Peter Neuenschwander, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Benin, and Aristide Adomou, Universi...
Harvard report details the threats faced by New England forests
Sep 19, 2017 (UPI)
The statistic is one of several worrying trends detailed in the newest Wildlands and Woodlands, Farmlands and Communities report, published periodically by Harv...
Earth's oldest trees in climate-induced race up the tree line
Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)
The study, published in the journal Global Change Biology, shows that the tree line has been steadily moving upslope over the past 50 years in the Great Basin. ...
Forest fires are not limited to hot or temperate climates
Sep 15, 2017 (SPX)
The news comes in a joint Canada-France study published in New Phytologist and co-authored by Olivier Blarquez, a geography professor at Universite de Montreal,...
Invasive beetle pushing US ash trees to extinction: conservationists
Sep 14, 2017 (AFP)
In an update to its "Red List" of threatened species, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) said six of North America's most prominent ash s...
Poland accuses EU's top court of bias in primeval forest case
Sep 13, 2017 (AFP)
Warsaw and the Commission argued their cases on Monday before the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg, where Poland is accused of commercial logging i...
Chocolate industry driving deforestation of Ivory Coast: report
Sep 13, 2017 (AFP)
"In several national parks and other protected areas, 90 percent or more of the land mass has been converted to cocoa," the group Mighty Earth said in its inves...
Hidden Inca treasure: Remarkable new tree genus discovered in the Andes
Sep 13, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers from the Smithsonian and Wake Forest University detailed their findings in a study just released in the journal PhytoKeys. Named Incadendron esseri ...
Deforestation long overlooked as contributor to climate change
Sep 07, 2017 (SPX)
The new paper, "Are the Impacts of Land Use on Warming Underestimated in Climate Policy?" published in Environmental Research Letters, also shows just how signi...
Researchers discover new tree genus in the Andes
Sep 07, 2017 (UPI)
Every year, the forests of South America yield new species. Just this month, a new study detailed the discovery of 381 new species in the Amazonian forests of B...
Panama's native tree species excel in infertile tropical soils
Sep 04, 2017 (SPX)
In a recent publication from the Smart Reforestation Program, Smithsonian scientists and collaborators including the Panama Canal Authority confirm that native ...
Greenpeace steps up protest against Polish forest logging
Aug 31, 2017 (AFP)
The right-wing government has vowed to continue logging in the forest that includes Europe's last primeval woodland following last month's ruling from the Europ...
Expanding tropical forest spells disaster for conservation
Aug 31, 2017 (SPX)
Expanding forests suck up CO2 from the atmosphere, but the plants and animals from savannas struggle to cope in the leafier environments. Encroaching forest res...
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