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Tropical fossil forests unearthed in Arctic Norway
Nov 24, 2015 (SPX)
UK researchers have unearthed ancient fossil forests, thought to be partly responsible for one of the most dramatic shifts in the Earth's climate in the past 40...
Half of Amazon tree species in danger: study
Nov 20, 2015 (AFP)
About half of the 15,000 tree species in the Amazon -- the world's most diverse forest -- are threatened by deforestation, an international study said on Friday...
Brazil cut C02 emissions through less deforestation: NGO
Nov 19, 2015 (AFP)
Brazil cut carbon emissions slightly last year, thanks mainly to a drop in deforestation which offset rises from the farming, energy and industrial sectors, sai...
Carbon accumulation by US forests may slow over the next 25 years
Nov 19, 2015 (SPX)
Currently, the carbon sequestered in U.S. forests partially offsets the nation's carbon emissions and reduces the overall costs of achieving emission targets to...
Scientists date the origin of the cacao tree to 10 million years ago
Nov 17, 2015 (SPX)
Chocolate, produced from seeds of the cacao tree Theobroma cacao, is one of the most popular flavors in the world, with sales around 100$ billion dollars per ye...
Large landowners key to slowing deforestation in Brazil
Nov 16, 2015 (SPX)
Brazil once had the world's highest rate of deforestation. And while land is still being cleared at an alarming rate, the country has been successful in reducin...
Increased deforestation could substantially reduce Amazon basin rainfall
Nov 16, 2015 (SPX)
Continued deforestation of the Amazon rainforest could diminish the amount of rain that falls in the Amazon River basin, finds a new study. These declines in ra...
10 Cambodians arrested over illegal logging patrol murders
Nov 13, 2015 (AFP)
Ten people, including a soldier, have been arrested over the murders of a forest ranger and a policeman who were investigating illegal logging in Cambodia, offi...
Rotting oaks lead to hazardous voids in Indiana's Mount Baldy sand dune
Nov 12, 2015 (SPX)
Mount Baldy, a sand dune in Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, may appear to be no more than an innocent pile of sand grains speckled with vegetation, but the ro...
Treetop leaves of tall trees store extra water
Nov 09, 2015 (SPX)
A research team led by Associate Professor Ishii Roaki and Doctoral Student Azuma Wakana from the Kobe University Graduate School of Agricultural Science has di...
Peru creates huge national park in Amazon basin
Nov 07, 2015 (AFP)
Peru is creating a national park to protect a vast territory in the Amazon basin that is vulnerable to drug trafficking and illegal logging and mining, the coun...
OECD warns Brazil on environment, economy risks
Nov 04, 2015 (AFP)
Brazil is destroying an area of rainforest the size of Israel every four years despite major conservation progress, the OECD economic grouping said Wednesday. B...
After 5,000 years, Britian's Fortingall Yew is turning female
Nov 02, 2015 (UPI)
After a few millennia as a male, the oldest tree in Britain is discovering life as a female. The top branches of Scotland's Fortingall Yew have begun sprouting ...
Amazonian natives had little impact on land, new research finds
Oct 30, 2015 (SPX)
New research led by Florida Institute of Technology shows that the impacts of indigenous people prior to European contact impacted riverside forests, but that s...
Elephants boost tree losses in South Africa's largest savanna reserve
Oct 28, 2015 (SPX)
Protected areas, such as nature reserves and national parks, play a crucial role in sheltering wildlife, such as African elephants, from hunting and habitat des...
New study rings alarm for sugar maple in Adirondacks
Oct 23, 2015 (SPX)
The iconic sugar maple, one of the most economically and ecologically important trees in the eastern United States and Canada, shows signs of being in a signifi...
More rain leads to fewer trees in the African savanna
Oct 20, 2015 (SPX)
In 2011, satellite images of the African savannas revealed a mystery: these rolling grasslands, with their heavy rainfalls and spells of drought, were home to s...
Future coastal climate not cool for redwood forests
Oct 20, 2015 (SPX)
In a study published in the research journal Global Change Biology, climate scientists from the University of California, NatureServe and the German Centre for ...
Protected and intact forests lost at an alarming rate around the world
Oct 16, 2015 (SPX)
Protected and intact forests have been lost at a rapid rate during the first 12 years of this century. According to researchers at Aalto University, Finland, 3%...
Could contaminated land actually be good for trees
Oct 16, 2015 (SPX)
The very act of tolerating some forms of soil pollution may give trees an advantage in the natural world, says University of Montreal plant biologists. Their fi...
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