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Outside View: Restoring Lebanon's forests
Feb 12, 2013 (UPI)
An old American story tells of Johnny Appleseed who carried a large bag of seeds planting them wherever he ranged -- Levantine native Maurice Zard is offering m...
Taiwan's 'King of the Trees' fights for the forests
Feb 10, 2013 (AFP)
With his blue stetson and thick grey jacket, Lai Pei-yuan looks like a modern-day cowboy, but rather than raising cattle, he grows trees. The 57-year-old Taiwan...
Puzzling 'greening' of Amazon rainforest in dry season an illusion
Feb 07, 2013 (UPI)
An apparent greening-up of the Amazon rain forest during the region's dry season each year from June to October is in fact an optical illusion, scientists say. ...
Asian paper giant to halt deforestation
Feb 05, 2013 (UPI)
Paper products giant Asia Pulp and Paper Group has pledged to stop all natural forest clearing in Indonesia. APP's announcement Tuesday of its new forest conser...
Paper giant APP promises no deforestation in Indonesia
Feb 05, 2013 (AFP)
The world's third-largest paper producer Asia Pulp and Paper said Tuesday it had stopped using logs from Indonesia's natural forests, after fierce campaigning b...
Mixed forest provides beneficial effects
Feb 05, 2013 (SPX)
Forestry and nature conservation can benefit from promoting more different varieties of trees, according to a new study in which researchers from the University...
Measuring the consequence of forest fires on public health
Feb 01, 2013 (SPX)
Pollution from forest fires is impacting the health of people with asthma and other chronic obstructive lung diseases, finds a study in Biomed Central's open ac...
Spring may come earlier to North American forests
Feb 01, 2013 (SPX)
Trees in the continental U.S. could send out new spring leaves up to 17 days earlier in the coming century than they did before global temperatures started to r...
New research will help shed light on role of Amazon forests in global carbon cycle
Jan 31, 2013 (SPX)
The Earth's forests perform a well-known service to the planet, absorbing a great deal of the carbon dioxide pollution emitted into the atmosphere from human ac...
Dartmouth research offers new control strategies for bipolar bark beetles
Jan 30, 2013 (SPX)
Population explosions of pine beetles, which have been decimating North American forests in recent decades, may be prevented by boosting competitor and predator...
Civilians fell rare Syrian trees for firewood
Jan 26, 2013 (AFP)
Beset by a freezing winter and stifling fuel and electricity shortages, Syrian civilians desperate to stay warm in a northern forest have no choice but to cut d...
Brazil to inventory Amazon rainforest trees
Jan 25, 2013 (AFP)
Brazil will undertake the massive task of cataloging the trees of the Amazon, in an effort to better monitor and protect the world's largest tropical forest, th...
Trading wetlands no longer a deal with the devil
Jan 22, 2013 (SPX)
If Faust had been in the business of trading wetlands rather than selling his soul, the devil might be portrayed by the current guidelines for wetland restorati...
Prosecutors take issue with Brazil's new forestry code
Jan 22, 2013 (AFP)
Brazil's new forestry code -- approved last year at the urging of the powerful agrobusiness sector -- faced a constitutional challenge Tuesday from federal pros...
Climate change's effects on temperate rain forests surprisingly complex
Jan 22, 2013 (SPX)
Longer, warmer growing seasons associated with a changing climate are altering growing conditions in temperate rain forests, but not all plant species will be n...
Study Finds Severe Climate Jeopardizing Amazon Forest
Jan 21, 2013 (JPL)
An area of the Amazon rainforest twice the size of California continues to suffer from the effects of a megadrought that began in 2005, finds a new NASA-led stu...
Savanna study highlights African fuelwood crisis
Jan 21, 2013 (SPX)
The dwindling reserves of fuelwood in Africa have been illuminated in a new study, which shows a bleak outlook for supplies across savannas in South Africa. Pre...
Tree and human health may be linked
Jan 18, 2013 (SPX)
Evidence is increasing from multiple scientific fields that exposure to the natural environment can improve human health. In a new study by the U.S. Forest Serv...
Bengali forests are fading away
Jan 15, 2013 (SPX)
RAPID deterioration in mangrove health is occurring in the Sundarbans, resulting in as much as 200m of coast disappearing in a single year. A report published J...
Three-wheeler rally flagged off for Indonesia forests
Jan 14, 2013 (AFP)
Dozens of tourists set off through Indonesia's malaria-infested jungles and potholed roads on three-wheelers as part of a rally to raise funds for forest conser...
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