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Ancient trees reveal relationship between climate change, wildfires
Aug 29, 2017 (UPI)
The history of Earth's climate features frequent fluctuations in global temperatures, including many periods of warming. In modern history, periods of warming h...
Brazil's opening of Amazon to mining sets off alarm
Aug 25, 2017 (AFP)
But Brazilian President Michel Temer has given the nod to a more literal sense of riches -- mineral extraction -- leaving environmentalists and activists includ...
Bangladesh police declare world-heritage forest pirate free
Aug 24, 2017 (AFP)
Police said more than 130 pirates operating in the forested delta region had surrendered their weapons and ammunition in exchange for cash, legal aid and mobile...
Brazil scraps Amazon reserve to allow mining
Aug 23, 2017 (AFP)
The four million-hectare reserve is home to indigenous people but also rich in gold and manganese. Established in 1984 under the then military dictatorship, the...
How orange peels revived a Costa Rican forest
Aug 23, 2017 (SPX)
A team led by Princeton University researchers surveyed the land 16 years after the orange peels were deposited. They found a 176 percent increase in abovegroun...
Annual value of trees estimated at 500 million dollars per megacity
Aug 23, 2017 (SPX)
In a recent study published in the online journal Ecological Modelling, an international team of researchers reported that in the 10 megacities they studied, tr...
Tropical trees maintain high carbon accumulation rates into old age
Aug 21, 2017 (SPX)
Trees play an important role in mitigating climate change by storing carbon in their biomass. While old trees are generally acknowledged for their long-term car...
Brazilian tribes celebrate court ruling on land rights
Aug 16, 2017 (AFP)
The ruling against Mato Grosso in western Brazil was seen as a victory for indigenous rights in the face of constant pressure from the powerful agricultural lob...
Storms felled record number of trees in Poland: officials
Aug 16, 2017 (AFP)
"We're dealing with what is undoubtedly the worst disaster in the history of Polish -- and perhaps even European -- forestry," Poland's chief forester, Konrad T...
Drought-affected trees die from hydraulic failure and carbon starvation
Aug 09, 2017 (SPX)
"Droughts are increasing in frequency and severity, and their impact on plants and humans, is becoming more intense," says research co-author, Dr Melanie Zeppel...
Humans have been altering tropical forests for at least 45,000 years
Aug 07, 2017 (SPX)
The study, published in Nature Plants, found that humans have in fact been having a dramatic impact on such forest ecologies for tens of thousands of years, thr...
Payments to rural communities offer a new opportunity to restore China's native forests
Aug 07, 2017 (SPX)
"Land collectively owned by rural communities accounts for 60% of China's forest land and the vast majority of China's newly-established forest cover" said Fang...
EU demands Polish 'reassurance' over ancient forest
Aug 07, 2017 (AFP)
Brussels has also pushed the bloc's top court to act urgently on the fate of the Bialowieza forest after the ruling Law and Justice party vowed that it would co...
Study reinforces the Amazon forest's importance in regulating atmospheric chemistry
Aug 03, 2017 (SPX)
According to Paulo Artaxo, Full Professor at the University of Sao Paulo's Physics Institute (IF-USP) in Brazil and a co-author of the study, isoprene is one of...
Financial incentives could conserve tropical forest diversity
Aug 03, 2017 (SPX)
Until now, assessments of these programs have largely overlooked decreases in forest diversity. In what might be a first of its kind study, University of Missou...
EU warns Poland to obey logging ban in ancient forest
Aug 02, 2017 (AFP)
Poland's right-wing government vowed on Monday that logging would continue in the ancient Bialowieza forest despite an injunction issued last week by the Europe...
US firms buying timber from illegal PNG logging: NGO
Aug 01, 2017 (AFP)
Timber logged in the impoverished Pacific nation is exported to manufacturing hubs, mostly in China, before being sent to other countries such as the United Sta...
Poland to keep logging in ancient forest: minister
Jul 31, 2017 (AFP)
The Court of Justice of the European Union last week ordered Poland to suspend logging operations there pending a final judgment on its dispute with the Europea...
Trees can make or break city weather
Jul 31, 2017 (SPX)
The researchers used remote-sensing laser technology to create a highly detailed computer model of a Vancouver neighbourhood down to every tree, plant and build...
Poles revive ancient tradition of timber floating
Jul 30, 2017 (AFP)
Their day begins at dawn with a prayer -- "When dawn breaks, the earth, the sea, all of nature praises you" -- which captain Zdzislaw Nikolas sings in his bass ...
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