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55 percent of carbon in Amazon may be at risk
Dec 03, 2014 (SPX)
A new peer-reviewed study, released at the start of the UN climate conference in Peru, reveals the unprecedented amount of carbon stored within the nine-nation ...
Amazon indigenous land loss threatens climate: study
Dec 02, 2014 (AFP)
More than half the carbon stored in the Amazon rainforest is on indigenous lands whose rapid destruction threatens to accelerate global warming, a new study sai...
Reduced logging supports diversity almost as well as leaving them alone
Dec 02, 2014 (SPX)
When it comes to logging, it may be possible to have our timber and our tropical forests, too. The key, according to a report in the Cell Press journal Current ...
Protecting the rainforest through agriculture and forestry
Nov 28, 2014 (SPX)
Conservationists are always looking for ways to halt the pace of deforestation in tropical rainforests. One approach involves recultivating abandoned agricultur...
Brazil government claims drop in Amazon deforestation
Nov 26, 2014 (AFP)
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon basin dropped by 18 percent over the past year, the government said Wednesday, but the official figures were at odds with a con...
Brazil says pace of Amazon deforestation down 18%
Nov 26, 2014 (AFP)
The pace of deforestation in Brazil's Amazon basin fell 18 percent over the past year, the government said Wednesday, dismissing as speculation reports of a hug...
Aggressive conifer removal benefits Sierra aspen
Nov 26, 2014 (SPX)
A study just published by Point Blue Conservation Science shows the benefits of an aggressive approach to restoring Sierra Nevada aspen stands (Populus tremuloi...
As elephants go, so go the trees
Nov 19, 2014 (SPX)
Overhunting has been disastrous for elephants, but their forest habitats have also been caught in the crossfire. A first-of-its-kind study led by researchers at...
Clues to trees' salt tolerance found in native habitat, leaf traits
Nov 19, 2014 (SPX)
Urban landscape plants are often subjected to environmental conditions well beyond those of their native habitat. Differences in precipitation, along with stres...
Protecting forests alone would not halt land-use change emissions
Nov 18, 2014 (SPX)
In contrast to previous assumptions, conservation schemes that focus only on forests may thus fail to significantly reduce CO2 emissions from land-use change. I...
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon 'surges 450%'
Nov 17, 2014 (AFP)
Deforestation in Brazil's storied Amazon basin region skyrocketed more than 450 percent in October from a year earlier, a non-governmental group warned Monday. ...
China's old-growth forests vanishing despite government policies
Nov 13, 2014 (SPX)
China's anti-logging, conservation and ecotourism policies are accelerating the loss of old-growth forests in one of the world's most ecologically fragile place...
Mapping reveals targets for preserving tropical carbon stocks
Nov 12, 2014 (SPX)
A new high-resolution mapping strategy has revealed billions of tons of carbon in Peruvian forests that can be preserved as part of an effort to sequester carbo...
Call for greater protection at World Parks Congress
Nov 11, 2014 (AFP)
Thousands of representatives from more than 160 nations meet in Australia this week at the once-a-decade World Parks Congress as scientists warn that countries ...
Gardeners of Madagascar rainforest at risk
Nov 06, 2014 (SPX)
A majority of Madagascar's 101 species of lemurs are threatened with extinction, and that could have serious consequences for the rainforests they call home. A ...
NEIKER fells pine trees to study their wind resistance
Nov 06, 2014 (SPX)
Technicians of the Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development NEIKER-Tecnalia have in recent days been felling trees to simulate the effect of t...
Early New Zealand population initiated rapid forest transition
Nov 06, 2014 (SPX)
Human-set fires by a small Polynesian population in New Zealand ~750 years ago may have caused fire-vulnerable forests to shift to shrub land over decades, rath...
Groundwater patches play important role in forest health, water quality
Nov 05, 2014 (SPX)
Even during summer dry spells, some isolated patches of soil in forested watersheds remain waterlogged. These patches act as hot spots of microbial activity tha...
Forests lose essential nitrogen in surprising way
Nov 05, 2014 (SPX)
Even during summer dry spells, some patches of soil in forested watersheds remain waterlogged. Researchers have discovered that these patches act as hot spots o...
Brazil scientist blames logging for extreme drought
Nov 04, 2014 (AFP)
Increased logging and burning in the Amazon rainforest will worsen already disastrous droughts, a leading Brazilian scientist warned in a new report on climate ...
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