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Brazilian official resigns over indigenous protests
Jun 07, 2013 (AFP)
The Brazilian official in charge of indigenous affairs resigned Friday amid protests by natives locked in land feuds with white farmers and opposing constructio...
'Watering the forest for the trees' emerging as priority for forest management
Jun 07, 2013 (SPX)
A new analysis led by the U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Northwest Research Station encourages resource managers to consider a broadened view of forests as consu...
Brazil grapples with indigenous land protests
Jun 06, 2013 (UPI)
Brazil's simmering conflict with indigenous communities boiled over this week after rioting over long-standing claims the government's zeal for development has ...
Smithsonian scientists discover that rainforests take the heat
Jun 06, 2013 (SPX)
South American rainforests thrived during three extreme global warming events in the past, say paleontologists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in...
Brazil police deployed to contain land feud
Jun 05, 2013 (AFP)
A crack police unit was deployed in the central Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul Wednesday to contain a land feud between indigenous residents and white fa...
Forest, soil carbon important but does not offset fossil fuel emissions
Jun 05, 2013 (SPX)
Leading world climate change experts have thrown cold water on the idea that planting trees can offset carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels. Professor Bre...
Human activity echoes through Brazilian rainforest
Jun 05, 2013 (SPX)
The disappearance of large, fruit-eating birds from tropical forests in Brazil has caused the region's forest palms to produce smaller, less successful seeds ov...
Tiny wasp takes on invasive pest killing U.S., Canadian ash trees
Jun 05, 2013 (UPI)
U.S. entomologists say a tiny Chinese wasp is proving an effective biological weapon against an invasive insect pest decimating ash trees in North America. The ...
UN mourns slain Costa Rica environmentalist
Jun 03, 2013 (AFP)
A UN representative in Costa Rica sent condolences Monday to the family of a slain environmentalist who volunteered for a turtle protection group and had report...
Indonesia on right path to saving forests: Greenpeace
Jun 03, 2013 (AFP)
A $1 billion deal to save Indonesia's rainforests has slowed a "tidal wave" of logging destruction, Greenpeace's global chief said Monday, but he warned much mo...
More at-risk bird species in Brazilian forest than previously thought
Jun 02, 2013 (SPX)
In a study published today in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of researchers led by NJIT Associate Professor Gareth Russell has applied a novel method for linking ...
Study explores 100 year increase in forestry diseases
May 29, 2013 (SPX)
As ash dieback disease continues to threaten common ash trees across Europe, new research in the Journal of Quaternary Science explores the historic impact of f...
Drought makes Borneo's trees flower at the same time
May 27, 2013 (SPX)
Tropical plants flower at supra-annual irregular intervals. In addition, mass flowering is typical for the tropical forests in Borneo and elsewhere, where hundr...
Reforestation study shows trade-offs between water, carbon and timber
May 27, 2013 (SPX)
More than 13,000 ships per year, carrying more than 284 million tons of cargo, transit the Panama Canal each year, generating roughly $1.8 billion dollars in to...
Morton Arboretum Partners with NASA to Understand why Trees Fail
May 22, 2013 (SPX)
It all started when two trees began to die in Matt Melis's front yard. When the NASA Glenn engineer noticed the robust health of a mighty oak tree in his neighb...
Amazon River exhales virtually all carbon taken up by rain forest
May 22, 2013 (SPX)
The Amazon rain forest, popularly known as the lungs of the planet, inhales carbon dioxide as it exudes oxygen. Plants use carbon dioxide from the air to grow p...
Indonesia court ruling boosts indigenous land rights
May 17, 2013 (AFP)
An Indonesian court has ruled indigenous people have the right to manage forests where they live, a move which supporters said prevents the government from hand...
Indonesia extends logging ban to protect rainforest
May 15, 2013 (AFP)
Indonesia has extended a logging ban aimed at protecting rainforest despite fierce industry pressure, the government said Wednesday, although green groups say t...
Loss of Eastern Hemlock Will Affect Forest Water Use
May 14, 2013 (SPX)
The loss of eastern hemlock from forests in the Southern Appalachian region of the United States could permanently change the area's hydrologic cycle, reports a...
US urban trees store carbon, provide billions in economic value
May 10, 2013 (SPX)
From New York City's Central Park to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, America's urban forests store an estimated 708 million tons of carbon, an environmental ...
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