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Tribal protesters with arrows try to enter Brazil's Congress
Nov 23, 2016 (AFP)
Brazilian police on Wednesday used pepper spray to force back about 300 protesters from indigenous tribes, some armed with bows and arrows, from entering Congre...
Large forest die-offs can have effects that ricochet to distant ecosystems
Nov 21, 2016 (SPX)
Major forest die-offs due to drought, heat and beetle infestations or deforestation could have consequences far beyond the local landscape. Wiping out an entire...
Remote Amazon tribe kills illegal gold miners: officials
Nov 18, 2016 (AFP)
Members of a remote Amazon rainforest indigenous tribe have shot dead six illegal gold miners with arrows, Brazilian officials said Friday. Brazil's Funai agenc...
Global boreal forests differ but not immune to climate change
Nov 16, 2016 (SPX)
Rudy Boonstra has been doing field research in Canada's north for more than 40 years. Working mostly out of the Arctic Institute's Kluane Lake Research Station ...
Mangrove protection key to survival for Senegalese community
Nov 06, 2016 (AFP)
Pelicans, flamingos, monkeys and even hyenas are under threat in Senegal along with the livelihoods of the local people as thick clusters of mangroves are disap...
Morocco's oases fight back creeping desert sands
Nov 03, 2016 (AFP)
On the edge of the southwestern town of Rissani, Abdelrahman Ahmidani sighs as he reflects on the state of the Moroccan oasis, endangered by drought and climate...
Database captures most extensive urban tree sizes, growth rates across United States
Nov 02, 2016 (SPX)
Sometimes in the cramped environs of U.S. cities every inch counts, especially if attempting to make space for nature. City planners and urban foresters now hav...
New warning over spread of ash dieback
Oct 31, 2016 (SPX)
The ash dieback fungus could spread more quickly and affect more trees than previously expected, according to research at the University of Exeter. Exeter scien...
The fight against deforestation: Why are Congolese farmers clearing forest?
Oct 26, 2016 (SPX)
Only a small share of Congolese villagers is the driving force behind most of the deforestation. They're not felling trees to feed their families, but to increa...
Brazil land grab threatens isolated tribes: activists
Oct 26, 2016 (AFP)
The worst land grab in decades in the Brazilian Amazon is threatening the survival of isolated tribes that have no contact with the outside world, a rights grou...
Deforestation in Amazon going undetected by Brazilian monitors
Oct 12, 2016 (UPI)
Over the last two decades, Brazil's government has pushed to curb deforestation. By official accounts, their progress as been commendable, but new research sugg...
'Goldilocks fires' can enhance biodiversity in Western forests
Oct 10, 2016 (SPX)
Forest fires were long thought to have a negative impact on the environment and on biodiversity, but in recent decades the importance of fire in sustaining and ...
Urban warming slows tree growth, photosynthesis
Oct 07, 2016 (SPX)
New research from North Carolina State University finds that urban warming reduces growth and photosynthesis in city trees. The researchers found that insect pe...
Carbon emissions from logging debris in Africa may be vastly under estimated
Oct 05, 2016 (SPX)
Logged forests in Central Africa may contain more than three times as much carbon-emitting woody debris left on the forest floor after logging than previous est...
Farming with forests
Oct 04, 2016 (SPX)
Feeding the world's burgeoning population is a major challenge for agricultural scientists and agribusinesses, who are busy developing higher-yielding crop vari...
Gambia announces ban on imported timber, but expert sceptic
Sep 27, 2016 (AFP)
The Gambia on Tuesday announced a ban on importing timber after years of accusations from neighbouring Senegal that it profits from illegal logging across their...
Amazon forest fire threatens natives, wildlife in Peru
Sep 21, 2016 (AFP)
An enormous fire is destroying vast stretches of the Amazon rainforest in Peru, threatening natives and wildlife, officials said, blaming traditional slash-and-...
Borneo loggers swap chainsaws for cheap healthcare
Sep 18, 2016 (AFP)
The forest around Manjau in Borneo once reverberated with the scream of chainsaws, as gangs of illegal loggers felled ancient hardwood trees for sale to timber ...
Eastern forests use up nitrogen in soil during earlier, greener springs
Sep 15, 2016 (SPX)
A warming climate is causing earlier springs and later autumns in eastern forests of the United States, lengthening the growing season for trees and potentially...
Indonesia, EU, announce historic deal on timber trade
Sep 15, 2016 (AFP)
Indonesia will in November become the first country in the world to export wood products to the European Union meeting new environmental standards in a move aim...
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