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Post-fire logging can reduce fuels for up to 40 years

Mar 17, 2015 (SPX)

Harvesting fire-killed trees is an effective way to reduce woody fuels for up to four decades following wildfire in dry coniferous forests, a U.S. Forest Servic...

Payments for ecosystem services? Here's the guidebook

Mar 16, 2015 (SPX)

A team of investors, development organizations, conservationists, economists, and ecologists have published in the journal Science six natural science principle...

Beijing's forest coverage rate exceeds 40 percent

Mar 13, 2015 (XNA)

Forest coverage in Beijing is 41 percent by the end of last year, authorities said ahead of China's Tree Planting Day, which is on Thursday. According to the Be...

The green lungs of our planet are changing

Mar 11, 2015 (SPX)

Are leaves and buds developing earlier in the spring? And do leaves stay on the trees longer in autumn? Do steppe ecosystems remaining green longer and are the ...

Amazon deforestation 'threshold' causes species loss to accelerate

Mar 06, 2015 (SPX)

One of the first studies to map the impact of deforestation on biodiversity across entire regions of the Amazon has found a clear 'threshold' for forest cover b...

Landless Brazilians in GM eucalyptus protest

Mar 06, 2015 (AFP)

Members of a landless peasant group, some wielding sticks or knives, attacked a cellulose factory in a violent protest against its use of genetically engineered...

Direct evidence that drought-weakened Amazonian forests 'inhale less carbon'

Mar 06, 2015 (SPX)

For the first time, an international research team has provided direct evidence of the rate at which individual trees in the Amazonian basin 'inhale' carbon fro...

Munching bugs thwart eager trees, reducing the carbon sink

Mar 04, 2015 (SPX)

In a high carbon dioxide world, the trees would come out ahead. Except for the munching bugs. A new study published in Nature Plants shows that hungry, plant-ea...

Modern logging techniques benefit rainforest wildlife

Mar 02, 2015 (SPX)

New research has highlighted the value of a modern logging technique for maintaining biodiversity in tropical forests that are used for timber production. Resea...

Greenpeace rebukes paper giant over farmer's death

Mar 02, 2015 (AFP)

Environmental group Greenpeace said Monday it had suspended cooperation with paper giant Asia Pulp and Paper after an Indonesian farmer was allegedly beaten to ...

World's protected natural areas receive 8 billion visits a year

Feb 26, 2015 (SPX)

The world's national parks and nature reserves receive around eight billion visits every year, according to the first study into the global scale of nature-base...

Massive amounts of Saharan dust fertilize the Amazon rainforest

Feb 26, 2015 (SPX)

The Sahara Desert and the Amazon rainforest seem to inhabit separate worlds. The former is a vast expanse of sand and scrub stretching across the northern third...

Brazil arrests 'Amazon's biggest deforester'

Feb 25, 2015 (AFP)

Brazilian authorities said Tuesday they had arrested the boss of a gang blamed for 20 percent of the deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in recent years. Eze...

Finding winners and losers in global land use

Feb 18, 2015 (SPX)

The United States added about 7.6 million acres of forests between 1990 and 2010, which may seem like a great environmental gain. But the real question is how t...

Colombia seeks 'environmental corridor' across Andes, Amazon

Feb 16, 2015 (AFP)

Colombia on Monday proposed creating an "environmental corridor" across northern South America to protect a vast, biologically rich swath of mountains and jungl...

Long-term changes in dead wood reveal new forest dynamics

Feb 12, 2015 (SPX)

Healthy forest ecosystems need dead wood to provide important habitat for birds and mammals, but there can be too much of a good thing when dead wood fuels seve...

Canada goes to WTO in China wood pulp row

Feb 12, 2015 (AFP)

Canada asked the World Trade Organization on Thursday to arbitrate an ongoing trade row with China over its imposition of punitive tariffs on bleached wood pulp...

Guidance to report on land use, land-use change and forestry emissions

Feb 11, 2015 (SPX)

A recent JRC report finds that EU Member States will face some challenges in meeting the new reporting and accounting requirements for greenhouse gas (GHG) emis...

Elephant patrols seek to protect Indonesia's rainforests

Feb 11, 2015 (AFP)

Indonesian men ride on Sumatran elephants as they patrol though dense jungle in the west of the tropical archipelago, warriors on the front line of the fight ag...

Tree species influence boreal forest fire behavior and subsequent effects on climate

Feb 06, 2015 (SPX)

For a better understanding of how forest fires behave and interact with climate, scientists are turning to the trees. A new study out of UC Irvine shows that di...