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Indonesia deforestation rises for third year running: NGO
Jan 31, 2025 (AFP)
A government official disputed the figures, saying they mischaracterised deforestation in the country. Indonesia has one of the world's highest rates of defores...
Hidden 'Highways' Allow Species to Travel Between Brazil's Rainforests
Jan 30, 2025 (SPX)
For a long time, scientists believed that tree migration between the Amazon and Atlantic forests occurred only during wetter climatic periods, when much of Sout...
Benin enlists voodoo to protect its precious mangroves
Jan 28, 2025 (AFP)
The government has tried to protect them by imposing bans on overfishing and felling for firewood. But it has discovered that voodoo is more powerful than threa...
WWF blasts Sweden, Finland over logging practices
Jan 23, 2025 (AFP)
"Thousands of hectares of forests with high conservation value are logged each year, despite their importance for climate stability, biodiversity, and long-term...
One-third of Arctic-boreal region is now a source
Jan 22, 2025 (SPX)
The study, conducted by an international team led by the Woodwell Climate Research Center, found that 34 percent of the Arctic-boreal zone (ABZ) - encompassing ...
Activists slam 'destructive' Indonesia forest conversion plan
Jan 20, 2025 (AFP)
The Indonesian government wants to turn 20 million hectares (49 million acres) of forest into areas for food and energy production and water reserves, Forestry ...
Biden issues land protections after LA fires delay ceremony
Jan 15, 2025 (AFP)
Less than a week before Donald Trump is due to move into the White House, Biden established the Chuckwalla National Monument, a 624,000-acre (252,500-hectare) a...
Don't write off logged tropical forests - oil palm conversion impacts ecosystems widely
Jan 10, 2025 (SPX)
The research underscores the importance of understanding how tropical forests' ecological elements respond to both logging and plantation conversion. Such knowl...
In Brazil, an Amazon reforestation project seeks to redeem carbon markets
Jan 08, 2025 (AFP)
The project has financial backing from the United States and lucrative contracts with companies such as Google, Microsoft and the McLaren F1 team, who want to u...
Eyeing green legacy, Biden declares new US national monuments
Jan 07, 2025 (AFP)
Just before Donald Trump is due to move into the White House, the 82-year-old will proclaim the 624,000-acre (252,000-hectare) Chuckwalla National Monument, nea...
Guadeloupe to fell iconic coconut palms
Jan 02, 2025 (AFP)
Despite their association with the West Indies, the coconut palm is not native to the French archipelago and does not have the same capacity as some local speci...
Brazil's Amazon saw highest number of fires in 17 years: agency
Jan 01, 2025 (AFP)
There were 140,328 fires detected by satellite imaging over the year, according to the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). That was 42 percent more th...
Stora Enso reports impairments of 724 mn euros
Dec 18, 2024 (AFP)
The company said the impairments were mainly a result of it predicting a weaker cash flow in the long-term from its packaging divisions in China and western Eur...
EU parliament gives final approval to deforestation ban delay
Dec 17, 2024 (AFP)
The bill, which bans imports of products driving deforestation, was initially set to take effect at the end of this year. But lawmakers in Strasbourg overwhelmi...
Amazon to benefit in Ecuador's second debt-for-nature deal
Dec 17, 2024 (AFP)
Economy Minister Juan Carlos Vega said that the government had renegotiated the debt to secure a new $1 billion loan "with better payment conditions." The opera...
Cambodian journalist investigating illegal logging shot dead
Dec 07, 2024 (AFP)
Chhoeung Chheung, 63, who worked for local news outlet Kampuchea Aphivath, was shot in the abdomen with a homemade weapon on Wednesday evening in a forest in Si...
Mangroves save $855 billion in flood protection globally, new study shows
Dec 06, 2024 (SPX)
The study, titled Building Coastal Resilience with Mangroves: The Contribution of Natural Flood Defenses to the Changing Wealth of Nations, highlights the essen...
After decades of plantation agriculture, coconut palms dominate over half of Pacific atoll forests
Dec 06, 2024 (SPX)
Despite wide interest in the global footprint of palm crops, the distribution of coconut palms across tropical Pacific atolls has received little attention. Unt...
Beeches thrive in France's Verdun in flight from climate change
Nov 25, 2024 (AFP)
Some of the beeches, planted in 2013 after two years in the nursery, now stand three metres (10 feet) tall as they loom out of the fog in their reddish-brown au...
Congo Basin forests shrink due to illegal logging
Nov 21, 2024 (AFP)
As the region has lost 30 percent of its forest cover since 2001, the "rapid degradation... poses a threat to the livelihoods of millions who rely on the forest...
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