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International standards reducing insect stowaways in wood packaging material
May 20, 2014 (SPX)
A new international standard for wood packaging material used in international trade is significantly slowing the inadvertent export of stowaway invasive bark- ...
Emissions From Forests Influence Very First Stage of Cloud Formation
May 19, 2014 (SPX)
Clouds play a critical role in Earth's climate. Clouds also are the largest source of uncertainty in present climate models, according to the latest report of t...
China demand for luxury furniture 'decimating rosewood'
May 12, 2014 (AFP)
Runaway Chinese demand for luxury furniture is spurring illegal logging across Southeast Asia, stripping the region of precious Siamese rosewood and driving a c...
Super-charged tropical trees of Borneo vitally important for global carbon cycling
May 12, 2014 (SPX)
A team of scientists has found that the woody growth of forests in north Borneo is half as great again as in the most productive forests of north-west Amazonia,...
Arctic study sheds light on tree-ring divergence problem
May 12, 2014 (SPX)
Changes in tree-ring density in the Arctic may be evidence of changes in light intensity during the trees' growth, according to a new study by San Francisco Sta...
Extinction stalks Myanmar's forests
May 07, 2014 (AFP)
Ashen earth strewn with the limbs of once-mighty trees is all that is left of the fearsome forest in central Myanmar that Wa Tote remembers from her youth. "We ...
Leaf chewing links insect diversity in modern and ancient forests
May 05, 2014 (SPX)
Observations of insects and their feeding marks on leaves in modern forests confirm indications from fossil leaf deposits that the diversity of chewing damage r...
Untangling Brazil's controversial new forest code
Apr 30, 2014 (SPX)
Approved in 2012, Brazil's new Forest Code has few admirers. Agricultural interests argue that it threatens the livelihoods of farmers. Environmentalists counte...
Getting at the root of the mountain pine beetle's rapid habitat expansion and forest
Apr 30, 2014 (SPX)
The mountain pine beetle has wreaked havoc in North America, across forests from the American Southwest to British Columbia and Alberta, with the potential to s...
Amazon rainforest survey could improve carbon offset schemes
Apr 30, 2014 (SPX)
Carbon offsetting initiatives could be improved with new insights into the make-up of tropical forests, a study suggests. Scientists studying the Amazon Basin h...
Genetic legacy of rare dwarf trees is widespread
Apr 29, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have found genetic evidence that one of Britain's native tree species, the dwarf birch found in the Scottish Hi...
Rising demand for herbal medicine can increase cultivation of medicinal trees
Apr 25, 2014 (SPX)
Formalizing trade in herbal medicinal products has the potential to increase the demand for on-farm grown raw material and raise the level of cultivation of med...
NASA Satellites Show Drought May Take Toll on Congo Rainforest
Apr 25, 2014 (SPX)
A new analysis of NASA satellite data shows Africa's Congo rainforest, the second-largest tropical rainforest in the world, has undergone a large-scale decline ...
Five Anthropogenic Factors That Will Radically Alter Northern Forests in 50 Years
Apr 22, 2014 (SPX)
In the most densely forested and most densely populated quadrant of the United States, forests reflect two centuries of human needs, values and practices. Distu...
Deforestation could intensify climate change in Congo Basin by half
Apr 19, 2014 (SPX)
By 2050, deforestation could cause temperatures in the Congo Basin to increase by 0.7C. The increase would intensify warming caused by greenhouse gases by half,...
Nutrient-rich forests absorb more carbon
Apr 17, 2014 (SPX)
The ability of forests to sequester carbon from the atmosphere depends on nutrients available in the forest soils, shows new research from an international team...
Fire and drought may push Amazonian forests beyond tipping point
Apr 17, 2014 (SPX)
Future simulations of climate in the Amazon suggest a longer dry season leading to more drought and fires. Woods Hole Research Center scientists Michael Coe, Pa...
Illegal logging widespread in Peru, says study
Apr 17, 2014 (AFP)
A 14-year-old policy to encourage sustainable logging in Peru's Amazonian forest has unwittingly led to large-scale plundering, a study said Thursday. In a pape...
Warming Climate Has Consequences for Michigan's Forests
Apr 15, 2014 (SPX)
In the last 100 years, Michigan has become warmer, with more rain coming through heavy downpours. Climate models suggest that the state will continue to warm an...
Sage grouse losing habitat to fire as endangered species decision looms
Apr 08, 2014 (SPX)
As fires sweep more frequently across the American Great Basin, the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been tasked with reseeding the burned landscapes to s...
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