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Voracious Asian jumping worms strip forest floor and flood soil with nutrients
Sep 13, 2016 (SPX)
Gardeners tend to look at earthworms as good helpers that break down fallen leaves and other organic matter into nutrients plants can use. But not all earthworm...
World's largest reforestation program overlooks wildlife
Sep 13, 2016 (SPX)
After years of environmental destruction, China has spent billions of dollars on the world's largest reforestation program, converting a combined area nearly th...
In eastern Tibetan forest, signs of tree growth amid climate change
Sep 13, 2016 (SPX)
Word of mouth from nomadic herders led Lucas Silva into Tibetan forests and grasslands. What his team found was startling: Rapid forest growth in tune with what...
A tenth of the world's wilderness lost since the 1990s
Sep 12, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology show catastrophic declines in wilderness areas around the world over the last 20 years. They demonstrate al...
Browsing antelope turned ancient African forests into grassy savanna ecosystems
Sep 07, 2016 (SPX)
Millions of years ago, Africa's savannas were covered with thick, ancient forests, which disappeared and turned into the grassy ecosystems that they are today. ...
World nears 2020 goal of restoring degraded forests
Sep 04, 2016 (AFP)
The world edged closer to a 2020 goal to repair vast areas of damaged natural lands and forests, officials announced Saturday at the world's largest conservatio...
Honduras, Guatemala most dangerous for environmentalists: AI
Sep 01, 2016 (AFP)
Honduras and Guatemala are the most dangerous countries in the world for environmentalists due to the persecution and even murder of activists, Amnesty Internat...
Modelling water uptake in wood opens up new design framework
Aug 26, 2016 (SPX)
Analytical approach could accelerate the development of new preservation treatments delivering environmental benefits and help in the design of bio-inspired sma...
Logged rainforests can be an 'ark' for mammals, extensive study shows
Aug 23, 2016 (SPX)
Research reveals that large areas of 'degraded' forest in Southeast Asia can play an important role in conserving mammal diversity. Mammals can be one of the ha...
Europe's oldest known living inhabitant
Aug 22, 2016 (SPX)
A Bosnian pine (Pinus heldreichii) growing in the highlands of northern Greece has been dendrocronologically dated to be more than 1075 years old. This makes it...
Logged forests are havens for endangered species in Southeast Asia
Aug 22, 2016 (UPI)
A logged forest isn't a lost forest, new research reveals. In recent surveys, scientists from Imperial College London found a surprising number of endangered sp...
Colombia to plant eight million trees for conflict victims
Aug 20, 2016 (AFP)
Colombia launched an initiative on Friday to plant a tree for each of the more than eight million victims of the country's 50-year armed conflict. President Jua...
Logging can decrease water infiltration into forest soils, study finds
Aug 19, 2016 (SPX)
Soil water infiltration, or the ability of soil to absorb water and allow it to move through different soil layers, is an important environmental factor in fore...
Drought conditions slow the growth of Douglas fir trees across the West
Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)
Whether growing along the rim of the Grand Canyon or living in the mist with California's coastal redwoods, Douglas fir trees are consistently sensitive to drou...
Many more species at risk from Southeast Asia tree plantations, study finds
Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)
As more of Southeast Asia's natural forests are cleared and converted into plantations for growing oil palm, rubber and other tree crops, a Duke University-led ...
A plant present in Brazil is capable of colonizing deforested areas
Aug 10, 2016 (SPX)
Tropical reforestation programs tend to prioritize native pioneer tree species, which colonize disturbed or cleared areas thanks to their high reproductive capa...
Early snowmelt reduces forests' atmospheric CO2 uptake
Aug 09, 2016 (SPX)
Earlier snowmelt periods associated with a warming climate may hinder subalpine forest regulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), according to the results ...
Tiny Asian beetle wreaks havoc on N. America trees
Aug 09, 2016 (AFP)
Over the next two years, grounds crews in St. Louis will cut down nearly one out of every five trees, altering the US city's leafy landscape for at least a gene...
The missing link in carbon accounting
Aug 05, 2016 (SPX)
While tropical forests continued to decline, a remarkable change is happening: tree cover on agricultural land has increased across the globe, capturing nearly ...
Effects of past tropical deforestation will be felt for years to come
Jul 29, 2016 (SPX)
Even if people completely stopped converting tropical forests into farmland, the impacts of tropical deforestation would continue to be felt for many years to c...
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