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Ivory Coast turns to brute force to save forests
Jul 12, 2013 (AFP)
It was a brutal end to a long-term problem. Faced with the dilemma of trying to save a protected forest, which had become home to thousands of people, the Ivory...
Trees Using Water More Efficiently as Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Rises
Jul 12, 2013 (SPX)
A study by scientists with the U.S. Forest Service, Harvard University and partners suggests that trees are responding to higher atmospheric carbon dioxide leve...
Efficiency in the forest
Jul 12, 2013 (SPX)
Spurred by increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, forests over the last two decades have become dramatically more efficient in how they use water, a H...
How Forests Cope with more Carbon Dioxide
Jul 12, 2013 (SPX)
While carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere increases, forests enhance their water use efficiency: They can take up more gas without losing more water....
Tropical forest blossoms are sensitive to changing climate
Jul 11, 2013 (SPX)
The North Pole isn't the only place on Earth affected by slight increases in temperature. Until recently, scientific thinking used to posit that tropical forest...
Temperature increases causing tropical forests to blossom
Jul 10, 2013 (SPX)
A new study led by Florida State University researcher Stephanie Pau shows that tropical forests are producing more flowers in response to only slight increases...
Deserts 'greening' from rising CO2
Jul 10, 2013 (SPX)
In findings based on satellite observations, CSIRO, in collaboration with the Australian National University (ANU), found that this CO2 fertilisation correlated...
Ancient forest found preserved under Gulf of Mexico waters
Jul 09, 2013 (UPI)
Scuba divers say they've discovered an ancient forest of Bald Cypress trees preserved underwater in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Alabama. The forest, cov...
Tropical forests said producing more flowers with climate change
Jul 08, 2013 (UPI)
Climate change is affecting the globe's tropical forests, with even slight temperature increases causing them produce more flowers, U.S. scientists say. "Tropic...
US nun's killer placed under Brazil house arrest
Jul 04, 2013 (AFP)
A man sentenced to 27 years in prison for the 2005 murder of US nun Dorothy Stang has been placed under house arrest in Brazil after serving only eight years be...
British activist says barred from Malaysian state
Jul 04, 2013 (AFP)
The activist sister-in-law of former British prime minister Gordon Brown has said she was deported from a Malaysian state whose powerful leader is widely accuse...
Maine officials say white pine fungus spreading
Jul 03, 2013 (UPI)
Forestry officials in Maine say a fungal disease that affects white pines is spreading. William Ostrofsky, a forest pathologist with the Maine Forest Service, s...
Climate change threatens forest survival on drier, low-elevation sites
Jul 01, 2013 (SPX)
Predicted increases in temperature and drought in the coming century may make it more difficult for conifers such as ponderosa pine to regenerate after major fo...
Bioeconomy as a solution for the declining forest industry of South Australia
Jul 01, 2013 (SPX)
South Australia's forest industry is being significantly challenged as production levels fall due to declining export competitiveness and accordingly means for ...
Wolf Lake Ancient Forest Is Endangered Ecosystem
Jun 28, 2013 (SPX)
New research from the University of Guelph, published Tuesday in the journal Biodiversity and Conservation, says that allowing industrial extraction in a northe...
Study reveals potent carbon-storage potential of manmade wetlands
Jun 26, 2013 (SPX)
After being drained by the millions of acres to make way for agriculture, wetlands are staging a small comeback these days on farms. Some farmers restore or con...
The contribution of particulate matter to forest decline
Jun 24, 2013 (SPX)
Bonn University scientists demonstrate that hygroscopic air pollutants decrease tree drought tolerance. Air pollution is related to forest decline and also appe...
Tree-killing emerald ash borer beetle set to invade New Hampshire
Jun 18, 2013 (UPI)
The emerald ash borer, the invasive beetle that has ravaged the ash tree population throughout Massachusetts, has recently been found near the New Hampshire Bor...
Whitebark Pine Trees: Is Their Future at Risk
Jun 13, 2013 (SPX)
There's trouble ahead for the whitebark pine, a mountain tree that's integral to wildlife and water resources in the western United States and Canada. Over the ...
Brazil's restive natives step protests over land rights
Jun 11, 2013 (AFP)
Indigenous activists occupied the headquarters of a federal agency here Tuesday as part of mounting protests against government policies and the construction of...
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