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Poland approves logging Europe's last primeval forest
Mar 25, 2016 (AFP)
Poland on Friday gave the go ahead for large-scale logging in the Bialowieza forest intended to combat a spruce bark beetle infestation, despite scientists, eco...
Recycling pecan wood for commercial growing substrates
Mar 22, 2016 (SPX)
In the ornamental greenhouse and nursery industries, concerns over peatmoss availability, cost, and harvest restrictions have created an imminent need to identi...
Drought alters recovery of Rocky Mountain forests after fire
Mar 22, 2016 (SPX)
A changing climate is altering the ability of Rocky Mountain forests to recover from wildfire, according to a new study published in the journal Global Ecology ...
China's forest recovery shows hope for mitigating global climate change
Mar 22, 2016 (SPX)
China's sweeping program to restore forests across the country is working. The vast destruction of China's forests, leveled after decades of logging, floods and...
No logging at protected Tasmanian forest: Australia
Mar 20, 2016 (AFP)
Australian authorities Sunday said there would be no logging in the World Heritage-listed Tasmanian Wilderness, following recommendations in a report submitted ...
Guatemalan conservation group denounces activist's death
Mar 18, 2016 (AFP)
A Guatemalan conservation group on Friday lashed out against the killing of one of its leaders, weeks after the murder of a Honduran indigenous activist prompte...
Regenerating forests create important carbon sinks in the Philippines
Mar 18, 2016 (SPX)
A University of Queensland (UQ)-led study is among the first in the world to systematically assess the amount of carbon stored in tropical forests recovering af...
New technique tracks 'heartbeat' of hundreds of wetlands
Mar 18, 2016 (SPX)
For two University of Washington researchers, the real test came as they walked across a barren-looking field. They were on the Columbia Plateau with two state ...
Woodlands in Europe: More tree species, more benefits
Mar 17, 2016 (SPX)
Forest homogenisation results in a lower ecosystem performance. This summarises the findings of an international team of scientists from 29 institutions, includ...
CCTV in the sky helping farmers fight back against illegal loggers
Mar 14, 2016 (SPX)
The blight of illegal timber removal from fragile rainforests could be alleviated by a "CCTV in the sky" being developed by Scottish-based, internationally-oper...
Austin's urban forest
Mar 10, 2016 (SPX)
The U.S. Forest Service recently published its first urban forest assessment - providing details on the composition and health of the Austin, Texas urban forest...
Eastern US forests more vulnerable to drought than before 1800s
Mar 10, 2016 (SPX)
Over thousands of years, most forests in the eastern United States evolved with frequent fire, which promoted tree species and ecosystems that were both fire an...
US joins Honduran probe of environmentalist's murder
Mar 08, 2016 (AFP)
US investigators have joined a Honduran probe into the killing of a prominent indigenous environmental activist who was leading a campaign against a hydroelectr...
Thousands attend funeral of slain Honduran environmentalist
Mar 06, 2016 (AFP)
Thousands of mourners paid their final tributes Saturday to Berta Caceres, the indigenous activist killed on Thursday, demanding justice for the renowned enviro...
Honduran environmentalist murdered: family
Mar 03, 2016 (AFP)
Honduran indigenous activist Berta Caceres, an award-winning environmentalist, was murdered in her home Thursday, her family said, labeling her death an assassi...
Green groups urge DR Congo to keep forest moratorium
Mar 02, 2016 (AFP)
A coalition of environmental campaign groups on Wednesday urged the Democratic Republic of Congo to maintain its moratorium on new logging licences to protect i...
Synchronized leaf aging in the Amazon responsible for seasonal increases in photosynthesis
Feb 29, 2016 (SPX)
One hundred and fifty feet above the ground in the Amazonian rainforest, a vast ocean of green spreads out in every direction. The rainforest canopy is made up ...
New insights into the seasonality of Amazon's evergreen forests
Feb 29, 2016 (SPX)
Sometimes you can't see the forest for the trees. In the Amazon, the opposite is true: without truly seeing the trees, you can't "see" the forest and understand...
NASA, Partner Space Agencies Measure Forests In Gabon
Feb 26, 2016 (SPX)
A contingent of NASA airborne instruments and scientists on the ground has joined colleagues from space agencies in Gabon and Europe this month to study the den...
Temperature changes wreak ecological havoc in deforested areas
Feb 25, 2016 (SPX)
The newly-exposed edges of deforested areas are highly susceptible to drastic temperature changes, leading to hotter, drier and more variable conditions for the...
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