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Winrock develops new method for quantifying carbon emissions from logging

Apr 07, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers at Winrock International have developed a first-of-its-kind method for estimating carbon emissions from forest degradation caused by selective loggi...

Save the caribou, save the boreal forest: ecologists

Apr 07, 2014 (AFP)

Endangered woodland caribou face increasing encroachment on their Canadian habitat, and foot-dragging by the federal government to try to halt this advance coul...

Researchers design trees that make it easier to produce paper

Apr 04, 2014 (SPX)

Researchers have genetically engineered trees that will be easier to break down to produce paper and biofuel, a breakthrough that will mean using fewer chemical...

Using more wood for construction can slash global reliance on fossil fuels

Apr 04, 2014 (SPX)

A Yale University-led study has found that using more wood and less steel and concrete in building and bridge construction would substantially reduce global car...

Deforestation of sandy soils a greater threat to climate change

Apr 03, 2014 (SPX)

Deforestation may have far greater consequences for climate change in some soils than in others, according to new research led by Yale University scientists - a...

Logging may have contributed to deadly Washington landslide

Apr 01, 2014 (UPI)

Geologists are trying to figure out exactly what triggered the deadly landslide in Oso, Washington, last month. So far there are two primary suspects: rising gr...

Spring in Japan: beautiful blossoms and hayfever misery

Apr 01, 2014 (AFP)

Spring in Japan brings explosions of pink and white cherry blossoms that provide a beautiful backdrop for picnics across this nature-loving country. But it also...

Agroforestry systems can repair degraded watersheds

Mar 31, 2014 (SPX)

Agroforestry, combined with land and water management practices that increase agricultural productivity, can save watersheds from degradation. A study conducted...

Loblolly pine's immense genome conquered

Mar 28, 2014 (SPX)

The massive genome sequence of the loblolly pine - the most commercially important tree species in the United States and the source of most American paper produ...

In the genome of loblolly pine lies hope for better resistance to a damaging disease

Mar 24, 2014 (SPX)

U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) scientists co-authored the article published in the journal Genome Biology that reports the sequencing, asse...

Amazon Inhales More Carbon than It Emits

Mar 19, 2014 (JPL)

A new NASA-led study seven years in the making has confirmed that natural forests in the Amazon remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere than they emit, t...

Indonesian president intervenes in roaring forest blaze

Mar 15, 2014 (AFP)

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono left Saturday for Sumatra, to take the lead in an operation to combat massive forest fires, which has so far prove...

Amazon's canopy chemistry is a patchwork quilt

Mar 13, 2014 (SPX)

In many ways, plants act as chemical factories, using energy from sunlight to produce carbon-based energy and taking nutrients from the soil in order to synthes...

Light pollution impairs rainforest regeneration

Mar 12, 2014 (SPX)

These new findings were reported by scientists from the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research Berlin (IZW). The study - published in the Britis...

Agroforestry can ensure food security and mitigate the effects of climate change in Africa

Mar 12, 2014 (SPX)

Agroforestry can help to achieve climate change mitigation and adaptation while at the same time providing livelihoods for poor smallholder farmers in Africa. S...

Deer proliferation disrupts a forest's natural growth

Mar 10, 2014 (SPX)

By literally looking below the surface and digging up the dirt, Cornell researchers have discovered that a burgeoning deer population forever alters the progres...

Australian PM says too much forestry 'locked up'

Mar 05, 2014 (AFP)

Prime Minister Tony Abbott was accused Wednesday of mounting "a massive assault on the environment" after he warned too much Australian forestry was closed to l...

Pine forest particles appear out of thin air, influence climate

Mar 03, 2014 (SPX)

Pine forests are especially magical places for atmospheric chemists. Coniferous trees give off pine-scented vapors that form particles, very quickly and seeming...

UNEP launches global platform to protect forests

Feb 26, 2014 (SPX)

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has teamed up with Google, World Resources Institute (WRI) and over 40 environmentalists to launch a near-real time forest m...

Forest model predicts canopy competition

Feb 25, 2014 (SPX)

Out of an effort to account for what seemed in airborne images to be unusually large tree growth in a Hawaiian forest, scientists at Brown University and the Ca...