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EU states oppose watering down embattled deforestation ban
Nov 20, 2024 (AFP)
The bill, which bans imports of products driving deforestation, was thrown into uncertainty last week after EU lawmakers on the right hijacked a vote on a one-y...
How forest density affects tree movement and resilience
Nov 18, 2024 (SPX)
Extreme weather events, including cyclones and tornadoes, can significantly damage forests, resulting in ecological and financial consequences. Tree falls disru...
Biden touts climate legacy in landmark Amazon visit
Nov 17, 2024 (AFP)
Biden flew over the jungle by helicopter and met with Indigenous leaders in the Brazilian city of Manaus on the penultimate leg of a valedictory South American ...
Biden in historic Amazon trip as Trump return sparks climate fears
Nov 17, 2024 (AFP)
Biden is heading to Manaus in Brazil, a city in the heart of the world's largest jungle, as part of a tour of South America that is likely to be the last major ...
EU deforestation ban in chaos as parliament loosens rules
Nov 14, 2024 (AFP)
The move triggered an outcry from environmental groups, which accused lawmakers of adding loopholes to a bill hailed as a major breakthrough in the fight to pro...
Drowning mangroves in Maldives signal global coastal risk
Nov 13, 2024 (SPX)
The study highlights that the Maldives, known for its low-lying islands, experienced significant mangrove dieback since 2020 due to rapid sea-level rise and the...
Brazilian Indigenous leader warns world on Amazon's fate
Nov 11, 2024 (AFP)
"Stop the Destruction," orders -- in English -- a giant-sized mural of Alessandra Korap Munduruku painted on the side of a building in Sao Paulo, with the tag #...
Amazon sees lowest deforestation in 9 years; Brazil must act on UK journalist's murder
Nov 07, 2024 (AFP)
Deforestation fell by 30.6 percent in the year-to-year period beginning in August 2023, according to the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). During th...
Brazil must act on probe into UK journalist's murder: media watchdog
Nov 06, 2024 (AFP)
The demand came in the wake of Brazilian federal police on Monday wrapping up a two-year probe into the killings which took place in the Amazon rainforest. That...
How urban planners can use trees to cool entire cities
Nov 05, 2024 (SPX)
The research, led by Jia Wang, Weiqi Zhou, and Yuguo Qian from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and co-authored by Steward Pickett, urban ecologist at Cary Insti...
Indigenous burning key to protecting Australia's forests for Millennia until now
Nov 02, 2024 (SPX)
The study, which appears in the journal Science, demonstrates that as Indigenous populations grew in fire-prone southeastern Australia, the intensity of forest ...
Indonesia tribe's homeland at risk after losing final appeal: NGOs
Nov 01, 2024 (AFP)
The Awyu tribe, whose roughly 20,000 members rely on the land for their subsistence, had sought to freeze the operations of PT Indo Asiana Lestari (PT IAL) in t...
Veea Amazon and AECOM partner to build the Internet of Forests in Colombia
Oct 30, 2024 (SPX)
Highlighting the urgency of this project, the Inter-American Development Bank noted that "Biodiversity and ecosystems are declining globally and the pressures l...
Autumn season science event invites volunteers to track leaf color change
Oct 29, 2024 (SPX)
A key aspect of this project, known as "green down," captures the process of leaves changing from green to brown and eventually falling. During this phase, volu...
One in three tree species at risk of extinction: report
Oct 28, 2024 (AFP)
The warning came in the Global Tree Assessment, contained in an update of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Speci...
Colombia grants Indigenous groups new environmental authority
Oct 16, 2024 (AFP)
"We have signed a decree with the president of the republic that recognizes the Indigenous authorities as the environmental authorities of their people and terr...
Adaptability of trees endures through millions of years of climate shifts
Oct 16, 2024 (SPX)
"From a biodiversity perspective, this is very positive because these trees are keystone species on which many other species depend," said Pascal Milesi, Associ...
EU states approve one-year delay of deforestation rules
Oct 16, 2024 (AFP)
Under pressure from trading partners from Brazil to the United States and even the bloc's powerhouse Germany, the European Commission proposed in early October ...
Indonesia biomass drive threatens key forests and orangutans
Oct 10, 2024 (AFP)
Bioenergy, which uses organic material like trees to produce power, is considered renewable by the International Energy Agency as carbon released by burning bio...
From Bolivia to Indonesia, deforestation continues apace
Oct 08, 2024 (AFP)
Forests nearly the size of Ireland were lost in 2023, according to two dozen research organisations, NGOs and advocacy groups, with 6.37 million hectares (15.7 ...
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