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New model is first to predict tree growth in earliest stages of tree life

Jul 28, 2016 (SPX)

Land managers, forestry professionals and conservationists seek to predict how trees will grow so they can better manage existing forests and regrow forests aft...

Rainforest greener during 'dry' season

Jul 28, 2016 (SPX)

Although the Amazon Jungle may appear to be perpetually green, a University of Illinois researcher believes there are actually seasonal differences of photosynt...

Woody climbing vines are suffocating tropical forests

Jul 22, 2016 (UPI)

For tropical forests attempting to recover from felling and other forms of deforestation, regrowth is taking longer than expected. New research suggests woody c...

Trees' surprising role in the boreal water cycle quantified

Jul 22, 2016 (SPX)

Approximately 25 to 50 percent of a living tree is made up of water, depending on the species and time of year. The water stored in trees has previously been co...

North American forests unlikely to save us from climate change

Jul 21, 2016 (SPX)

Forests take up 25 - 30 percent of human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide - a strong greenhouse gas - and are therefore considered to play a crucial role in m...

DRCongo to scrap illegal China logging contracts

Jul 13, 2016 (AFP)

Congolese authorities told AFP on Wednesday they would annul three logging contracts awarded to China last year in what Greenpeace had called a violation of Con...

Agroforestry helps farmers branch out

Jul 11, 2016 (SPX)

Imagine an agriculture field. Most are planted with row upon row of tidy cash crops. Now imagine that same field with rows of trees between the rows of crops. T...

Australian mangrove die-off blamed on climate change

Jul 11, 2016 (AFP)

Thousands of hectares of mangroves in Australia's remote north have died, scientists said Monday, with climate change the likely cause. Some 7,000 hectares (17,...

Drought stalls tree growth and shuts down Amazon carbon sink

Jul 11, 2016 (SPX)

A recent drought completely shut down the Amazon Basin's carbon sink, by killing trees and slowing their growth, a ground-breaking study led by researchers at t...

Understanding forest fire history can help keep forests healthy

Jul 07, 2016 (SPX)

For nearly a century, forest fires have been viewed by scientists and the public as dangerous and environmentally damaging disasters. However, recent research h...

Watching a forest breathe

Jul 06, 2016 (SPX)

For the first time, scientists have been successful in measuring the processes by which an entire forest "breathes," using sophisticated technology involving fl...

NASA Maps California Drought Effects on Sierra Trees

Jun 30, 2016 (JPL)

A new map created with measurements from an airborne instrument developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, reveals the devastating eff...

Where do rubber trees get their rubber

Jun 29, 2016 (SPX)

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan along with collaborators at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) have succeeded in d...

Botanical diversity unraveled in a previously understudied forest in Angola

Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)

Famous for hosting most endemic bird species in Angola, it comes as no surprise that the Kumbira forest in Angola has recently also revealed great botanical div...

Significant humus loss in forests of the Bavarian Alps

Jun 24, 2016 (SPX)

Alpine forests will be at great risk should weather phenomena such as droughts and torrential rain become more frequent. As a study by the Technical University ...

Boreal felt lichen set to decline 50 percent in 25 years

Jun 23, 2016 (SPX)

Erioderma pedicellatum, commonly known as the Boreal felt lichen, grows on trees in the damp boreal forests along the Atlantic coast. It is also one of the most...

Functional traits of Giant Sequoia crown leaves respond to environmental threats

Jun 21, 2016 (SPX)

Hundreds of feet above the ground, atop a giant sequoia tree, as many as 2 billion leaves vie for resources. Twigs teem with leaves growing long and splayed or ...

Canadian forests a refuge as warming creeps north

Jun 21, 2016 (SPX)

In the Canadian province of Quebec, a study of more than 26,000 trees across an area the size of Spain forecasts potential winners and losers in a changing clim...

Scores of environmental activists murdered in 2015: report

Jun 20, 2016 (AFP)

At least 185 activists and indigenous people fighting environmental pillaging were murdered in 2015, the watchdog group Global Witness said on Monday. The grisl...

EU at loggerheads with Poland over World Heritage forest

Jun 16, 2016 (AFP)

The European Union on Thursday launched an investigation into Polish logging in its ancient Bialowieza forest, a protected UNESCO World Heritage site which incl...