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Canada provides Can$867 mn to beleaguered softwood sector
Jun 01, 2017 (AFP)
The funds are to be made available over three years to help forestry companies weather the trade flap over softwood exports and diversify their markets, as well...
Amazon rainforest may be more resilient to deforestation than previously thought
May 31, 2017 (SPX)
In the past, researchers have found that a large part of the Amazon forest is susceptible to a tipping point. The tell-tale sign is satellite data showing areas...
PNG expedition discovers largest trees at extreme altitudes
May 31, 2017 (SPX)
The study - which involved The University of Queensland's Dr John Dwyer and James Cook University's Professor Michael Bird - was led by Dr Michelle Venter, a po...
Government transparency limited when it comes to America's conserved private lands
May 30, 2017 (SPX)
A new study led by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison examined why private-land conservation data is sometimes inaccessible and found that limit...
Changing climate could have devastating impact on forest carbon storage
May 30, 2017 (SPX)
"What we've been trying to do is really understand how changing climate, increases in temperatures and decreases in precipitation, will alter carbon uptake in f...
In Canada, parks thrive but conservationists cry foul
May 28, 2017 (AFP)
"We've seen some amazing animal life up here, much more than a lot of other places that we've gone camping," Tony Garland, a 60-something American who drove up ...
Activists protest logging in Poland's ancient forest
May 24, 2017 (AFP)
The move comes after a "final warning" by the European Commission sent to Warsaw in April saying it could take legal action to halt large-scale logging in Europ...
Planting trees cannot replace cutting CO2 emissions
May 24, 2017 (SPX)
However, growing biomass soon in well-selected places with increased irrigation or fertilization could support climate policies of rapid and strong emission cut...
Solving the mystery of the white oak
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
The approximately 125 white oak species in the Americas and 25 in Eurasia - including the massive bur oak of American prairies and savannas, the valley oak of C...
Myanmar's extensive forests are declining rapidly due to political and economic change
May 22, 2017 (SPX)
Due to its long political and economic isolation, Myanmar has retained much of its original forest cover but much of the intact forest is unprotected and is inc...
Study refutes findings behind challenge to Sierra Nevada forest restoration
May 16, 2017 (SPX)
Until recently, the consensus among forest ecologists was that before European settlers arrived in the Sierra, the forests were mostly open conifer forests domi...
Greenpeace says Canadian forestry lawsuit aims to silence critics
May 16, 2017 (AFP)
The multimillion dollar lawsuit that Resolute Forest Products filed against Greenpeace last year is "aimed at muzzling civil society" and "intimidating critics,...
The superhighway threatening Nigeria's tropical rainforest
May 16, 2017 (AFP)
They didn't want a superhighway that would wipe their ancestral lands in the Cross River National Park off the map. Under pressure, the earthmovers left to do t...
Microscopic soil creatures could orchestrate massive tree migrations
May 11, 2017 (SPX)
Their work shows how these invisible biotic communities create "soil highways" for young trees, meaning they could determine how quickly species march uphill, i...
Poland EU row over ancient forest heats up
May 05, 2017 (AFP)
The European Commission last week sent a "final warning" to Warsaw saying it could take legal action to halt large-scale logging in the UNESCO World Heritage fo...
New look at satellite data questions scale of China's afforestation success
May 04, 2017 (SPX)
The results of the study could help policymakers track returns from tree-planting investment and identify suitable environments for future afforestation, aiding...
DR Congo arrests 14 Chinese for wood smuggling
May 04, 2017 (AFP)
"We have arrested Chinese people... who were cutting wood in our region," Celestin Pande, acting governor of the Haut-Katanga region, told AFP. Pande said 17,00...
Long-term fate of tropical forests may not be as dire as believed
May 02, 2017 (SPX)
This role has made them a hot research topic, as scientists question what will happen to this vital carbon sink long-term as temperatures rise and rainfall incr...
Scientists examine impact of high-severity fires on conifer forests
May 01, 2017 (SPX)
Although most of these cone-bearing evergreen trees are well adapted to fire, the study examines whether two likely facets of climate change - hotter, drier con...
Deforestation from a tree's perspective at the TED conference
Apr 28, 2017 (AFP)
A presentation Thursday simply titled "Tree" combined sound, sight, smell and touch to let people feel first-hand what is lost when lush forest burns down. "It ...
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