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As demand for African timber soars, birds pay the ultimate price
Sep 09, 2015 (SPX)
Tropical forests are home to more of the world's terrestrial biodiversity than any other habitat, but are increasingly threatened by the impact of human activit...
Native tribe fights to save Boreal forest in Quebec
Sep 08, 2015 (AFP)
Mandy Gull holds back tears as she steps off the helicopter in northern Quebec. "I've never seen anything so sad," says the young woman whose aboriginal tribe i...
Russia Home to Largest Number of Trees Globally
Sep 07, 2015 (Sputnik)
Russia has approximately 640 billion trees, which is an absolute record, the news agency Ria Novosti reported, citing a study published in the journal Nature. A...
Rate of global forest loss halved: UN report
Sep 07, 2015 (AFP)
The rate at which the world is losing its forests has halved, but an area of woodland the size of South Africa has still been lost since 1990, a UN report revea...
Columbia engineers develop new approach to modeling Amazon seasonal cycles
Sep 02, 2015 (SPX)
With the rise of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere, understanding the climate of tropical forests--the Amazon in particular--has become a critical research area. A rece...
Increasingly severe disturbances weaken world's temperate forests
Aug 31, 2015 (SPX)
Longer, more severe, and hotter droughts and a myriad of other threats, including diseases and more extensive and severe wildfires, are threatening to transform...
Study: Tropical forests to disappear faster than expected
Aug 25, 2015 (UPI)
A Washington-based think tank is urging action on climate change. In a new study, researchers at the Center for Global Development predict 714 million acres of ...
Regulatory, certification slows down use of genetically altered trees
Aug 21, 2015 (SPX)
Myriad regulations and certification requirements around the world are making it virtually impossible to use genetically engineered trees to combat catastrophic...
Special issue: Forest health 2015
Aug 21, 2015 (SPX)
In this special issue, the editors of Science invite experts to provide closer looks at how natural and human-induced environmental changes are affecting forest...
Drought implicated in slow death of trees in southeast's forests
Aug 21, 2015 (SPX)
It's obvious drought can kill trees. But a new Duke University study of nearly 29,000 trees at two research forests in North Carolina reveals it's not always a ...
Boreal forests threatened by climate change
Aug 21, 2015 (UPI)
The loss of forest mostly calls to mind the clearing of precious rainforests, but a less tropical type of forest is also under threat. New research suggests bor...
Boreal forests challenged by global change
Aug 21, 2015 (SPX)
Management of boreal forests needs greater attention from international policy, argued forestry experts from the International Institute for Applied Systems Ana...
Merkel urges Brazil to protect Amazon rainforest
Aug 20, 2015 (AFP)
Brazil and Germany threw their weight Thursday behind the push for a global climate agreement later this year and stressed the vital importance of defending the...
'Half a million ants march in Germany' for protection of Amazon rainforest
Aug 18, 2015 (AFP)
Half a million ants were enlisted at a German zoo Tuesday by ecologists from the conservation group WWF to call for the protection of the Amazon rainforest, ahe...
Flooding's impact on wetlands measurable via low-cost approach
Aug 18, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists designed a new, on-site method for studying potential impacts rising sea levels can have on vital wetlands, said a University of Alabama researcher w...
Guam research aids native trees
Aug 13, 2015 (SPX)
Guam-based research has made its way to the July issue of the national scientific journal HortScience. The work was conducted in the University of Guam's Wester...
Clearing habitat surrounding farm fields fails to reduce pathogens
Aug 13, 2015 (SPX)
The effort to improve food safety by clearing wild vegetation surrounding crops is not helping, and in some cases may even backfire, according to a new study le...
Can cloud forests survive climate change?
Aug 07, 2015 (UPI)
A new study in Australia suggests plants unique to cloud forests are unlikely to survive the changes in high-altitude temperature and weather patterns brought o...
Agrarian settlements drive severe tropical deforestation across the Amazon
Aug 04, 2015 (SPX)
Resettlement projects in the Amazon are driving severe tropical deforestation - according to new research from the University of East Anglia and Camara dos Depu...
NASA Goddard Technology Helps Fight Forest Pests
Aug 04, 2015 (SPX)
Northeastern forests in the United States cover more than 165 million acres, an area almost as big as Texas. Soon, millions of pine and ash trees in those fores...
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