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Primeval forest risks sparking new EU-Poland clash

Apr 27, 2017 (AFP)

The prospect was hailed by Polish environmental groups, deeply critical of the Law and Justice (PiS)-led government's environmental policy. Brussels gave Poland...

Mozambique battles illegal logging to save tropical forests

Apr 26, 2017 (AFP)

Nicolau Moises, the forestry department chief in Cabo Delgado province, one of Mozambique's top timber-producing regions, quickly seized a truck piled high with...

Trump looks to lift protections on America's vast nature preserves

Apr 26, 2017 (AFP)

On Wednesday, he is to sign an executive order reviewing decisions by predecessors Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton to designate public land a "nat...

Trump moves to review status of America's nature preserves

Apr 26, 2017 (AFP)

He signed an executive order reviewing decisions by predecessors Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton to designate public land a "national monument" un...

Application of statistical method shows promise mitigating climate change effects on pine

Apr 24, 2017 (SPX)

"In the past, statistical approaches that were used to help guide forest management decisions like strategic seedling planting had limitations," note the author...

Belgium's 'fairytale' bluebell forest victim of own beauty

Apr 22, 2017 (AFP)

For two or three weeks in April the ground of the Hallerbos wood just outside the drab capital of Brussels is transformed into a breathtaking sea of shimmering ...

Greenhouse gas effect caused by mangrove forest conversion is quite significant

Apr 13, 2017 (SPX)

The researchers concluded that mangrove conversion to agricultural uses resulted in a land-use carbon footprint of 1,440 pounds of carbon dioxide released into ...

A new parameterization of canopy radiative transfer for land surface radiation models

Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)

Among the physical processes of land surfaces, canopy radiative transfer is especially important. It plays a key role in controlling land-atmosphere flux exchan...

Stanford study explores risk of deforestation as agriculture expands in Africa

Apr 10, 2017 (SPX)

Next time you bite into a chocolate bar, think of Africa. The continent produces nearly 70 percent of the world's cocoa, a growing output that requires carving ...

First world survey finds 9,600 tree species risk extinction

Apr 05, 2017 (AFP)

The first ever global database of trees on Wednesday revealed that 9,600 tree species are threatened with extinction and identified a total of 60,065 in existen...

Emissions from the edge of the forest

Apr 02, 2017 (SPX)

When talk is of important ecosystems, tropical forests are top of the list. After all, half of the carbon stored in all of the Earth's vegetation is contained i...

Methane emissions from trees

Mar 31, 2017 (SPX)

A new study from the University of Delaware is one of the first in the world to show that tree trunks in upland forests actually emit methane rather than store ...

Forests fight global warming in many ways

Mar 29, 2017 (SPX)

Forests play a complex role in keeping the planet cool, one that goes far beyond the absorption of carbon dioxide, new research has found. Trees also impact cli...

Asian dust providing key nutrients for California's giant sequoias

Mar 29, 2017 (SPX)

Dust from as far away as the Gobi Desert in Asia is providing more nutrients than previously thought for plants, including giant sequoias, in California's Sierr...

Reconsider the impact of trees on water cycles and climate, scientists ask

Mar 21, 2017 (SPX)

Forests and trees play a major role on water cycles and cooler temperatures, contributing to food security and climate change adaptation. In recent decades, the...

Late US billionaire's record land gift lays Chile row to rest

Mar 18, 2017 (AFP)

Douglas Tompkins's widow vividly remembers the suspicions the late billionaire raised when he started buying up land in Patagonia, the natural paradise at the b...

Did humans create the Sahara desert?

Mar 15, 2017 (SPX)

New research investigating the transition of the Sahara from a lush, green landscape 10,000 years ago to the arid conditions found today, suggests that humans m...

Louisiana wetlands hurting from accelerated sea level rise

Mar 14, 2017 (UPI)

Sea levels along the Louisiana coast are rising at four times the global average. New research suggests the state's already degraded wetlands are paying the pri...

Huge swathe of Australian mangroves 'die of thirst'

Mar 13, 2017 (AFP)

Thousands of hectares of mangroves in Australia's remote north "died of thirst" last year, scientists said Tuesday, in the largest climate-related incident of i...

How nature creates forest diversity

Mar 07, 2017 (SPX)

Forests, especially tropical forests, are home to thousands of species of trees - sometimes tens to hundreds of tree species in the same forest - a level of bio...