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As climate changes, boreal forests to shift north and relinquish more carbon than expected
May 07, 2013 (SPX)
It's difficult to imagine how a degree or two of warming will affect a location. Will it rain less? What will happen to the area's vegetation? New Berkeley Lab ...
Forest-mapping satellite to join Earth study mission: ESA
May 07, 2013 (AFP)
A satellite that will map the world's forests has been chosen for the seventh mission in Europe's Earth Explorer project, the European Space Agency (ESA) said T...
Nicaraguan rainforest said under threat from growing illegal logging
May 03, 2013 (UPI)
A rainforest in Nicaragua is under growing threat from illegal logging by landless people who have invaded the area, leaders of local indigenous peoples say. Th...
In the Northeast, forests with entirely native flora are not the norm
May 02, 2013 (SPX)
Two-thirds of all forest inventory plots in the Northeast and Midwestern United States contain at least one non-native plant species, a new U.S. Forest Service ...
Smoke signals: How burning plants tell seeds to rise from the ashes
May 02, 2013 (SPX)
In the spring following a forest fire, trees that survived the blaze explode in new growth and plants sprout in abundance from the scorched earth. For centuries...
Mekong forest facing sharp decline: WWF
May 02, 2013 (AFP)
Demand for farmland may strip the Greater Mekong region of a third of its remaining forest cover over the next two decades without swift government action, a le...
Deforestation threatens Mekong region
May 02, 2013 (UPI)
If current deforestation rates continue, the Greater Mekong region in Southeast Asia risks losing more than one-third of its remaining forest cover within two d...
Study Led by NUS Scientists Reveals Escalating Cost of Forest Conservation
Apr 26, 2013 (SPX)
In the face of unprecedented deforestation and biodiversity loss, policy makers are increasingly using financial incentives to encourage conservation. However, ...
Wildfires can burn hot without ruining soil
Apr 26, 2013 (SPX)
When scientists torched an entire 22-acre watershed in Portugal in a recent experiment, their research yielded a counterintuitive result: Large, hot fires do no...
Indonesia moves towards approving deforestation plan
Apr 19, 2013 (AFP)
The Indonesian government has said it aims to approve within a month a plan that would free up vast swathes of protected virgin rainforest on Sumatra island for...
Brazil urged to stop invading indigenous lands
Apr 18, 2013 (AFP)
A rights group accused Brazilian authorities Thursday of ignoring a deadline set by a federal judge to evict all invaders from the Amazon heartland of the threa...
Brazil's indigenous protest to defend ancestral lands
Apr 16, 2013 (AFP)
Hundreds of indigenous people from across Brazil pressed Congress Tuesday to block a reform package meant to benefit farmers which they say threatens their way ...
New research challenges assumptions about effects of global warming on mountain tree line
Apr 16, 2013 (SPX)
For years, many scientists believed that forest tree lines on mountains everywhere would shift to higher elevations as the planet's temperature increased due to...
Forest fires and warming planet could accelerate deforestation in Amazon
Apr 15, 2013 (UPI)
The increasingly deadly combination of forest fire and extreme weather spells tragedy for the trees of the Amazonian rainforest, according to a new study by bio...
Activist silenced as China island forests destroyed
Apr 12, 2013 (AFP)
Rumbling earthmovers carve out a seaside golf course among fallen palm trees on a Chinese island, after authorities silenced the man who spoke out against destr...
SFU researchers help unlock pine beetle's Pandora's box
Apr 10, 2013 (SPX)
Twenty researchers - more than half of them Simon Fraser University graduates and/or faculty - could become eastern Canada's knights in shining white lab coats....
Russian activists angry after attacked journalist's death
Apr 09, 2013 (AFP)
Colleagues and friends Tuesday expressed shock and anger over the sudden death of Russian journalist and activist Mikhail Beketov, who was left crippled after a...
Russian forest campaigner dies after 2008 attack
Apr 08, 2013 (AFP)
Outspoken Russian journalist and environmentalist Mikhail Beketov, who was beaten nearly to death in 2008 in an attack thought to be linked to his activism, die...
Taiwan man's tree-top protest goes into 11th day
Apr 07, 2013 (AFP)
A Taiwanese activist's unusual tree-top protest went into its 11th day Sunday and Pan Han-chiang vowed to continue until a local council drops a controversial d...
Asian Long-Horned Beetle eradicated from Canada: govt
Apr 05, 2013 (AFP)
Canada has eradicated the destructive Asian Long-Horned Beetle first detected in the Toronto area a decade ago after hitching a ride across the Pacific in wood ...
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