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EU court orders Poland to suspend logging in ancient forest
Jul 28, 2017 (AFP)
Bialowieza, straddling Poland's eastern border with Belarus, includes one of the largest surviving parts of the primeval forest that covered the European plain ...
Paying farmers not to cut down trees in Uganda helps fight climate change
Jul 21, 2017 (SPX)
The study, published this week in the journal Science, found that in Uganda, offering small financial incentives to landowners cut deforestation in half. Becaus...
Eucalyptus gets the chop after deadly Portugal forest fires
Jul 20, 2017 (AFP)
Parliament voted for the measure Wednesday as part of ongoing forest law reforms that started in April, before the blaze in the central Pedrogao Grande region t...
Amazon Makes Its Own Rainy Season
Jul 18, 2017 (JPL)
The study analyzed water vapor data from NASA's Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) on the Aura satellite, along with other satellite measurements, to show...
EU hauls Poland to top court over ancient forest logging
Jul 13, 2017 (AFP)
The European Commission, the EU's executive arm, "refers Poland to the Court of Justice of the EU and requests interim measures to stop logging operations in on...
Ancient fungi could help Canada's future northern forests
Jul 07, 2017 (SPX)
"The idea that long-dormant, symbiotic fungi could help trees migrate during periods of rapid climate change has been around for decades, but no one had taken i...
UNESCO urges Poland to stop logging ancient forest
Jul 05, 2017 (AFP)
The large-scale logging authorised by the Polish government began in May of last year and has since drawn concern from environmental activists, scientists and t...
Green activists, rangers face off over Poland's ancient forest
Jul 04, 2017 (AFP)
The demonstrations took place in the city of Krakow on the sidelines of the annual meeting of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee, which is set to discuss the Bia...
Slow-growing ponderosas survive mountain pine beetle outbreaks
Jul 03, 2017 (SPX)
The team of researchers, led by UM biological sciences Professor Anna Sala, published their findings in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Scien...
Scampering dogs in Chile help restore burnt forests
Jun 30, 2017 (AFP)
The blazes blackened the El Maule region of central Chile as part of a series of fires that claimed 11 lives and charred a total of 457,000 hectares. But since ...
US imposes second round of tariffs on Canadian lumber
Jun 27, 2017 (AFP)
The US Commerce Department announced preliminary findings from an anti-dumping probe that Canadian lumber was 7.72 to 4.59 percent below normal prices. US custo...
Thousands protest logging in Poland's ancient forest
Jun 24, 2017 (AFP)
Bialowieza, straddling Poland's eastern border with Belarus, includes one of the largest surviving parts of the primeval forest that covered the European plain ...
Iconic New Zealand Christmas tree has Australian roots
Jun 22, 2017 (UPI)
The evergreen species, Metrosideros excelsa, also known as the iron tree, is most associated with New Zealand, but it is found throughout the Pacific. "It grows...
Poland says primeval forest should not be UNESCO natural heritage site
Jun 21, 2017 (AFP)
Bialowieza, straddling Poland's eastern border with Belarus, includes one of the largest surviving parts of the primeval forest that covered the European plain ...
Religious leaders join forces to protect rainforests
Jun 19, 2017 (AFP)
Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Taoist and Jewish leaders are meeting indigenous people affected by deforestation as well as experts on climate change and h...
Peatlands, already dwindling, could face further losses
Jun 16, 2017 (SPX)
The net result is that these former carbon sinks, which have taken greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere, are now net carbon sources, instead accelerating the ...
Tropical peat forests risk turning from carbon drains to emitters
Jun 14, 2017 (AFP)
The vast swamplands, located largely in southeast Asia, have long helped store atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and put a brake on global warming. The forested ...
Activists block logging in Poland's ancient forest
Jun 08, 2017 (AFP)
Starting at dawn, several of the 30 activists present attached themselves to wood-cutting equipment to stop it from leaving a nearby car park. Others from Green...
Decomposing leaves are surprising source of greenhouse gases
Jun 07, 2017 (SPX)
"This study looked at the geometry of pores in soils as a key variable that affects how nitrogen moves through those soils," said Enriqueta Barrera, program dir...
Forensic analysis of wood's chemical signatures could curb illegal logging
Jun 02, 2017 (UPI)
According to a new study published in the journal Applications in Plant Sciences, chemical fingerprints can be used to trace lumber's origin. Almost everything ...
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