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Massive logging leaves deep scars in Eastern Europe
Feb 23, 2014 (AFP)
With its steep, forested mountains set against blue skies, Romania's central Pojarna Valley once looked like a postcard landscape but illegal logging has turned...
Google-backed database steps up fight on deforestation
Feb 20, 2014 (AFP)
Google, environmentalists and governments on Thursday unveiled a state-of-the-art database to track deforestation, hoping to ramp up enforcement of a major culp...
How global forest-destroyers are turning over a new leaf
Feb 19, 2014 (TCM)
Indonesia is the world's biggest destroyer of forests and four multinational corporations - APP, APRIL, Wilmar and Golden Agri Resources - have been responsible...
Tree roots in the mountains 'acted like a thermostat' for millions of years
Feb 12, 2014 (SPX)
For the first time, scientists have discovered how tree roots in the mountains may play an important role in controlling long-term global temperatures. Research...
Biodiversity in production forests can be improved without large costs
Feb 12, 2014 (SPX)
Forest management is based on recommendations that are supposed to maximize economic revenues. However, in 40% of cases a better economic result would be achiev...
Controversial Malaysian state boss to resign
Feb 12, 2014 (AFP)
A controversial Malaysian state boss who has faced mounting accusations of corruption and environmentally disastrous policies announced his resignation on Wedne...
NASA Study Points to Infrared-Herring in Apparent Amazon Green-Up
Feb 11, 2014 (SPX)
For the past eight years, scientists have been working to make sense of why some satellite data seemed to show the Amazon rain forest "greening-up" during the r...
New Madagascar leader declares war on illegal logging
Feb 05, 2014 (AFP)
Madagascar's new leader vowed Wednesday to toughen his government's crackdown on the illegal trafficking of precious woods from the Indian Ocean island. Hery Ra...
Trees diminished resistance to cyclones attributed to insects
Feb 05, 2014 (SPX)
Guam experiences more tropical cyclones than any other state or territory in the United States. These cyclones--called typhoons in the western Pacific Ocean--ca...
Effective control of invasive weeds can help attempts at reforestation in Panama
Jan 30, 2014 (SPX)
Saccharum spontaneum is an invasive grass that has spread extensively in disturbed areas throughout the Panama Canal watershed, where it has created a fire haza...
Contraband trafficking ravages Central American forests
Jan 30, 2014 (AFP)
Drug trafficking in Central America is emerging as a major threat to forests, as smugglers cut trees for secret roads, landing strips and fake farms to launder ...
Rainforests in Far East shaped by humans for the last 11,000 years
Jan 28, 2014 (SPX)
New research from Queen's University Belfast shows that the tropical forests of South East Asia have been shaped by humans for the last 11,000 years. The rain f...
How a South American tree adapts to volcanic soils
Jan 27, 2014 (SPX)
Soils of southern South America, including Patagonia, have endured a high frequency of disturbances from volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, landslides, and erosio...
Meet the rainforest diversity police
Jan 23, 2014 (SPX)
A new study has revealed that fungi, often seen as pests, play a crucial role policing biodiversity in rainforests. The Oxford University-led research found tha...
Image or reality? Leaf study needs photos and lab analysis
Jan 23, 2014 (SPX)
Every picture tells a story, but the story digital photos tell about how forests respond to climate change could be incomplete, according to new research. Scien...
Trees grow faster and store more carbon as they age
Jan 21, 2014 (SPX)
Trees put on weight faster and faster as they grow older, according to a new study in the journal Nature. The finding that most trees' growth accelerates as the...
Large, older trees keep growing at a faster rate
Jan 21, 2014 (SPX)
Contrary to long-held misconceptions, trees never stop growing during their lifespans, a new study has found. In fact, as they age, their growth accelerates, ev...
Oldest trees are growing faster, storing more carbon as they age
Jan 17, 2014 (SPX)
In a finding that overturns the conventional view that large old trees are unproductive, scientists have determined that for most species, the biggest trees inc...
Climate scientists bark up the big tree
Jan 15, 2014 (AFP)
Despite their greater age, big, old trees do more than small, young ones to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, said a study Wednesday that explores how ...
Iconic Australasian trees found as fossils in South America
Jan 13, 2014 (SPX)
Today in Australia they call it Kauri, in Asia they call it Dammar, and in South America it does not exist at all unless planted there; but 52 million years ago...
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