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Evergreens at risk
Dec 25, 2015 (SPX)
A research paper published in Nature Climate Change predicts widespread death of needleleaf evergreen trees (NET) within the Southwest United States by the year...
Reading the smoke signals
Dec 23, 2015 (SPX)
Laser-based measurements permit detailed analyses of the amounts of carbon dioxide released by the burning of tropical peatlands - and the data show that the an...
Amazon peoples change ancestral ways to save forest
Dec 22, 2015 (AFP)
The the indigenous peoples of the Amazon are far removed from the Paris conference rooms where politicians and technocrats in dark suits hashed out a historic d...
Researchers test sustainable forestry policies in tropics
Dec 22, 2015 (SPX)
New research by a Dartmouth scientist and her colleagues shows that policies aimed at protecting tropical forests in the Congo Basin may unexpectedly lead to in...
When trees die, water slows
Dec 22, 2015 (SPX)
Mountain pine beetle populations have exploded over the past decade due to warmer temperatures and drier summers, and these insects have infected and killed tho...
Climate stress forces trees to hunker down or press on
Dec 16, 2015 (SPX)
In the face of adverse conditions, people might feel tempted by two radically different options - hunker down and wait for conditions to improve, or press on an...
Irish police go hi-tech to combat Christmas tree thieves
Dec 12, 2015 (AFP)
Fed up with roaming gangs stealing their Christmas trees, farmers and police in Ireland have turned to smartphones and helicopter patrols to ensure they can kee...
US forest products in the global economy
Dec 09, 2015 (SPX)
Although the United States leads the world in both production and consumption of forest products, the U.S. share of the global forest products market has declin...
N. Korea 'declares war' on deforestation at Paris climate talks
Dec 07, 2015 (AFP)
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has launched a war on deforestation, the country's foreign minister said Monday at the Paris climate talks, pledging to "activel...
At UN talks, African countries aim to restore 100 mn hectares of forest
Dec 06, 2015 (AFP)
A coalition of African countries and donors unveiled an ambitious initiative on the sidelines of a crunch UN climate conference Sunday to restore 100 million he...
Forest Service scientists improve US forest carbon accounting
Dec 03, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists with the USDA Forest Service have developed a new approach to forest carbon accounting that will result in a more accurate picture of how much carbon...
UF creates trees with enhanced resistance to greening
Dec 03, 2015 (SPX)
After a decade of battling the highly destructive citrus greening bacterium, researchers with the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sci...
Eyes in the sky track health of Earth's African 'lung'
Dec 03, 2015 (AFP)
High in the sky, a satellite passes over the equatorial forest of west Africa, the Earth's second largest "lung" after the Amazon. In Ntoum, a village about 30 ...
'Traditional authority' linked to rates of deforestation in Africa
Dec 01, 2015 (SPX)
The first study to link precolonial African leadership and current levels of deforestation has shown a strong correlation between areas with historic leadership...
Tallest trees could die of thirst in rainforest droughts
Nov 30, 2015 (SPX)
Droughts could kill off the tallest trees in tropical rainforests in coming decades, a study suggests. For the first time, scientists have identified the ecolog...
Amazon deforestation leaps 16 percent in 2015
Nov 27, 2015 (AFP)
Illegal logging and clearing of Brazil's Amazon rainforest increased 16 percent in the last year, the government said, in a setback to the aim of stopping destr...
Top civil servants probed over hardwood traffic in Gabon
Nov 27, 2015 (AFP)
Security agents in Gabon are investigating several top civil servants, including an advisor to the president, for illegal trafficking in a precious hardwood, a ...
Brazilian farmers learn to love Amazon's trees again
Nov 26, 2015 (AFP)
The tall trees, animal cries and deep shadows would make you think you're in Brazil's Amazon jungle, in fact the leafy paradise Tome-Acu is the work of farmers....
New York forest land may be peaking
Nov 25, 2015 (SPX)
With 63 percent of the state forested, New York may be nearing a peak in forest land. In a comprehensive inventory of the state's forests conducted between 2008...
NASA study suggests carbon content of temperate forests overestimated
Nov 25, 2015 (SPX)
Digital measurements of millions of trees indicate that previous studies likely overestimate the amount of carbon stored by temperate U.S. forests, according to...
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