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Researchers question evaluation methods for protected areas in the Amazon

Apr 01, 2013 (SPX)

The indicators currently being used to guide policy and investments into protected areas in the Amazon may not be having the desired effect. This is according t...

Decreased Water Flow May be Trade-off for More Productive Forest

Mar 27, 2013 (SPX)

Bubbling brooks and streams are a scenic and much loved feature of forest ecosystems, but long-term data at the U.S. Forest Service's Hubbard Brook Experimental...

Hunting for meat impacts on rainforest

Mar 25, 2013 (SPX)

Hunting for meat in the African rainforests has halved the number of primates. However, the hunting also has other negative consequences. The decline in the num...

Middle ground between unlogged forest and intensively managed lands

Mar 25, 2013 (SPX)

It is increasingly recognized that protected areas alone are not sufficient for successful biodiversity conservation, and that management of production areas (e...

Disney invests in Peru to prevent deforestation

Mar 20, 2013 (AFP)

The Walt Disney Company has bought $3.5 million in carbon credits to prevent the destruction of a jungle in the country's Amazon. The Alto Mayo forest -- home t...

Logging debris gives newly planted Douglas-fir forests a leg-up

Mar 14, 2013 (SPX)

The downed limbs and other woody debris that are inevitable byproducts of timber harvest could be among the most important components of post-harvest landscapes...

Are tropical forests resilient to global warming?

Mar 13, 2013 (SPX)

Tropical forests are less likely to lose biomass - plants and plant material - in response to greenhouse gas emissions over the twenty-first century than may pr...

Protected areas prevent deforestation in Amazon rainforest

Mar 13, 2013 (SPX)

Strictly protected areas such as national parks and biological reserves have been more effective at reducing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest than so-call...

Nations boost efforts to curb illegal logging

Mar 12, 2013 (AFP)

Governments agreed Tuesday to step up efforts to protect threatened tree species from illegal loggers amid warnings that criminal gangs are plundering the world...

Demand for China chopsticks killing trees: lawmaker

Mar 11, 2013 (AFP)

A Chinese legislator who heads a forestry company has urged the country to save more trees by reducing the 80 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks it makes ea...

Science synthesis to help guide land management of US forests

Mar 01, 2013 (SPX)

A team of more than a dozen scientists from the U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Southwest (PSW) and Pacific Northwest research stations, universities and Region 5...

EU cracks down on illegal timber trade

Mar 01, 2013 (AFP)

The European Union is cracking down on the timber trade in an effort to curb illegal logging, blamed for a host of ills from social upheaval to environmental an...

Declining Vegetation Across The Eastern US Observed

Feb 28, 2013 (SPX)

NASA scientists report that warmer temperatures and changes in precipitation locally and regionally have altered the growth of large forest areas in the eastern...

Russia moves to shut down Lake Baikal paper mill

Feb 28, 2013 (AFP)

A controversial Soviet-era paper mill on the shores of Lake Baikal will be closed down, a government spokeswoman said Thursday, after years of complaints about ...

Turkmenistan to plant 3 million trees to make desert bloom

Feb 23, 2013 (AFP)

The ex-Soviet state of Turkmenistan announced on Saturday a new campaign to plant three million tree saplings this year with the aim of transforming the desert ...

Decoys could blunt spread of ash-killing beetles

Feb 21, 2013 (SPX)

As the emerald ash borer ravages North American ash trees, threatening the trees' very survival, a team of entomologists and engineers may have found a way to p...

Wetland trees a significant overlooked source of methane

Feb 18, 2013 (SPX)

Wetlands are a well-established and prolific source of atmospheric methane. Yet despite an abundance of seething swamps and flooded forests in the tropics, grou...

Lungs of the planet reveal their true sensitivity to global warming

Feb 14, 2013 (SPX)

Tropical rainforests are often called the "lungs of the planet" because they generally draw in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen. But the amount of carbon d...

Tree die-off triggered by hotter temperatures

Feb 14, 2013 (SPX)

A team of scientists, led by researchers at Carnegie's Department of Global Ecology, has determined that the recent widespread die-off of Colorado trembling asp...

Southwest regional warming likely cause of pinyon pine cone decline

Feb 14, 2013 (SPX)

Creeping climate change in the Southwest appears to be having a negative effect on pinyon pine reproduction, a finding with implications for wildlife species sh...