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#1186052018-10-19
‘Largest living thing,’ an 80,000-year-old Utah forest, is dying, scientists warn
An ancient forest in Utah considered to be the largest single living thing in the world is dying, according to scientists. The Pando aspen, a gigantic expanse of 40,000 trees that are are all clones with identical compositions, has long been known as the “trembling giant” and covers over 106 acr ...
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#1186282018-10-23
Habitat of endangered Malayan tigers vanishing
The Hulu Sempam area which has been cleared for durian plantation is vital to the survival of the Malayan tiger, which is now considered critically endangered. The area, said WWF’s Siti Zuraidah Abidin, had also been identified as an Expected Tiger Habitat under the National Tiger Action Plan fo ...
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#1186372018-10-23
This video of a forest “breathing” has Twitter freaking out
With Halloween just around the corner, things that seem even a little mysterious or out of the ordinary are getting people all excited. That’s probably why Twitter is collectively freaking out about a video which appears to show a forest “breathing”.
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#1186582018-10-24
Chopping forests to plant durians like killing goose that lays golden eggs
Durian farmers are "shooting themselves in the foot" if they continue to clear the forest for durian plantations, conservation groups said.
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#1186962018-10-26
Soy destruction in Argentina leads straight to our dinner plates
The extent of the destruction is painful to see. Flying over the area around the El Corralito indigenous community in a single-propeller plane, only thin strips of green are left between vast fields of pale, newly uncovered earth, pencilled in with parallel white lines of the ashes of bulldozed ...
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#1186972018-10-26
UNESCO experts in Iran weighing Hyrcanian Forest
“The delegation are to visit four provinces of Golestan, Mazandaran, Semnan and Gilan in a span of nine days… to report results of their survey to the IUCN [International Union for Conservation of Nature],” said Mohammad-Hassan Talebian, the deputy director of the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts ...
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#1187072018-10-29
Deforestation: When should I panic?
There is plenty to panic about working in sustainability, and nothing is more fear-inducing than seeing cleared land where there once were trees. We know that forest loss comes hand-in-hand with the production of consumer products. We also know consumer products bring countless benefits to socie ...
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#1187272018-10-30
Czech forestry in crisis
Forests in the Czech Republic are suffering. Frequent periods of prolonged draught have weakened trees, leaving them prone to harmful bark beetle infestation. Moreover, severe storms in recent months and years damaged large areas of woodland and foresters have had to cut down many more trees tha ...
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#1187502018-10-31
Chocolate: Origins of delicacy pushed back in time
Chocolate has been a delicacy for much longer than previously thought. Botanical evidence shows the plant from which chocolate is made was first grown for food more than 5,000 years ago in the Amazon rainforest.
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#1187652018-11-01
Forest report points to opportunity for recovery
When it released its “State of the World’s Forests 2018” report in July, the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) seemed to have taken to heart that old corporate PR rule of thumb that in times of crisis you should say “opportunity” rather than “problem.”
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#1187822018-11-02
Has Haiti Lost Nearly All Of Its Forest? It's Complicated
The cloud forests of Haiti's Macaya National Park are believed to carry the world's largest concentration of endemic amphibians. Island ecosystems are hotspots for biodiversity, and historically, Haiti was no different.
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#1188042018-11-06
Why forests are the best 'technology' to stop climate change
The warning from the world's top climate scientists that carbon dioxide (CO2) will need to be removed from the atmosphere to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius is both a due and dire recognition of the great task in front of us. What must not be forgotten, however, is the hope that our ...
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#1188052018-11-06
‘Cryptic’ Interactions Drive Biodiversity Decline At Edge of Forest Fragments
The fragmentation of tropical forests weakens the effects of the “natural enemies” of some tree species, reducing their ability to maintain biodiversity, a new study published in Nature Communications found.
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#1188292018-11-07
Invisible plant-enemy interactions drive diversity in forest fragments
Very few tropical forests around the world enjoy uninterrupted contiguity. Most are divided into uneven, small fragments, cut off from each other, their boundaries marked by roads or farms. But as forests get fragmented, the diversity of plants within them shifts, changing with distance from the ...
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#1188452018-11-08
Federal government must act on national pine beetle problem
'Once a population begins expanding, they present a threat to forests for hundreds of kilometres downwind'Alberta is the frontline of a pine beetle epidemic that threatens to decimate forests from coast to coast. If you've been to Jasper National Park recently, you have seen the widespread devas ...
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#1188462018-11-08
Untouched’ not always best forestry plan
One hundred and ten years ago, a major forest fire swept through Wendell State Forest, resetting the forest ecosystem with new trees of a uniform age. One hundred and ten years later, this 88-acre parcel is cherished by many residents “as a living, wild and natural asset” with towering oaks that ...
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#1189322018-12-07
World Forum Launches Call for Action on Urban Forests and Green Spaces
2 December 2018: The first World Forum on Urban Forests launched a Call for Action on greener, healthier and happier cities for all. The Forum also issued a challenge to all cities around the globe to adhere to the ‘Tree Cities of the World Programme.’
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#1189412018-12-07
Tropical forest conservation in the Bolsonaro era (commentary)
Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s President-elect, represents a globally significant threat to the world’s biggest tropical forest conservation legacy and the biggest tropical forest.
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#1189602018-12-10
Strengthening forest governance is vital for growth of Southeast Asia’s forests
The Greater Mekong Region (GMS) in the transnational region of the Mekong River Basin in Southeast Asia experienced a 5.1 percent decline in total forest cover from 1990 to 2015, according to a recent study conducted by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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#1189612018-12-10
Secrets of the baobabs: lifeline for a forest on the edge
Our four-wheel drive slides to a halt, throwing up clouds of dust as we pile out into the rising heat of the day, Zoemana and his fellow rangers taking off at full-speed towards a column of smoke in the distance.
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#1189812018-12-11
Chile's pine forests: a botanical dinosaur bound for extinction?
In Quinquen, an indigenous community in southern Chile, Ricardo Melinir shows off a forest of Chilean pine trees—the araucaria araucana, a "living fossil" seen as sacred by several local tribes.
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#1190422018-12-14
Sweden’s forests have doubled in size over the last 100 years
Sweden is a land of trees. More than 70% of its landscape is covered by forest and in less than 100 years, Sweden’s forest assets have doubled.
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#1190842018-12-18
Trees are worth billions to Australia's economy — but how we value them is changing
How much is a tree worth? In economic terms, your answer depends on how you value them.Forestry exports contribute $3 billion to Australia's economy; its manufacturing, sales and service income make up around $24 billion per year.
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#1190902018-12-18
New York City’s surprising wealth of native trees
Urban nature is often portrayed as degraded, lacking in native biodiversity and consisting mostly of weedy, invasive species. But a new study shows that even the most populous city in the United States contains significant stands of forest dominated by native tree species
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#1191172018-12-19
Logging of old-growth forests should stop, Victorian environment department says
Logging in old-growth forests in Victoria should cease, according to testimony from the Victorian environment department in a court battle over logging in East Gippsland.
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#1191742018-12-21
NASA Satellite Will Measure the World's Forests
Forests are often called the lungs of the planet because they produce so much oxygen. But they also store huge amounts of carbon. NASA scientists want to know exactly how much carbon, and so they have just launched a satellite that will finally give them an exact measurement. VOA's Kevin Enochs ...
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#1191752018-12-21
Evaluation must be done
Scientists attending the U.N. Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP24 climate talks in Katowice, Poland, discussed potential solutions to slow global warming and stay below targets laid out in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change.
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#1191762018-12-21
The importance of Mongolia’s boreal forests
Every year as the sun warms and the days lengthen, 28-year-old Baganatsooj moves his herds to their summer pastures outside the town of Tunkhel in Mongolia’s far northern Selenge province – a nomadic lifestyle his ancestors have practiced for thousands of years.
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#1191942018-12-27
Why private forests should not be neglected
About 120.6 million hectares or 63 percent of land in Indonesia are designated as state forest areas — 26 percent of which are degraded, according to the Environment and Forestry Ministry.
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#1192052018-12-27
Natural ‘Enemies’ Of Trees Good For Keeping Up Tree Biodiversity
Fungi and arthropods that kill seeds and seedlings might be the primary drivers behind the great biodiversity of trees within tropical forests.
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#1192282019-01-03
COP24: Green groups warn of pitfalls in ‘forests for climate’ deal
A plan adopted by delegates at last month’s climate summit in Poland to weaponize forests in the fight against global warming could have a disastrous outcome, environmentalists say.
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#1192432019-01-04
Temple scientist documents deforestation, mass extinction in Haiti
A Caribbean island once full of lush trees and teeming with wildlife is nearly completely deforested and undergoing a mass extinction event.
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#1192442019-01-04
Forest soundscapes monitor conservation efforts inexpensively, effectively
Recordings of the sounds in tropical forests could unlock secrets about biodiversity and aid conservation efforts around the world,according to a perspective paper published in Science.
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#1192522019-01-04
Protecting proboscis monkeys from deforestation
A 10-year study of proboscis monkeys in Borneo has revealed that forest conversion to oil palm plantations is having a significant impact on the species.
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#1192622019-01-07
Revised Brazilian forest code may lead to increased legal deforestation in Amazon
Up to 15 million hectares of tropical rainforest in the Brazilian Amazon could lose protection and be clear-cut because of an article in the country's new Forest Code.
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#1192882019-01-08
Using soundscapes to feel the pulse of tropical forests
How do you measure the changing bio-diversity of tropical forests as logging and land clearances take place around the world? It's expensive to mount field expeditions. So could using microphones to monitor and record the sounds of forests be the answer?
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#1192912019-01-08
Experts warn against mega-dams in lowland tropical forests
Mega-dams should not be built in lowland tropical forest regions due to the threat they pose to biodiversity and ecosystems, according to experts at the University of Stirling.
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#1193782019-01-15
To save the rainforest, we need to work with the palm oil industry
Lots of academics worry that focusing too much on the real-world impact of research threatens pure, curiosity-driven science. But really the two go hand in hand, especially when it comes to solving the complex question of how we achieve sustainability despite increasing human pressures on our pl ...
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#1193812019-01-15
How much can forests fight climate change?
When it comes to fighting global warming, trees have emerged as one of the most popular weapons. With nations making little progress controlling their carbon emissions, many governments and advocates have advanced plans to plant vast numbers of trees to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere ...
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#1194152019-01-16
The case for forests’ prominent role in holding off climate change
Most scientists and experts agree that forests are critical to stabilizing the global climate, and the 2015 Paris climate agreement recognized the need to “conserve and enhance” their carbon sequestration potential.
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#1195122019-01-18
5 reasons to be optimistic about reducing, and reversing, deforestation
Let’s be frank. For those of us who care about deforestation, the last few years have not been good. The latest data tells us we’re losing more tropical tree cover than ever before. The biggest culprit is still commodity agriculture. This is exactly what we, in the Tropical Forest Alliance, are ...
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#1195302019-01-22
Small trees are among the oldest in Congolese rainforest
Forest giants have long been considered the oldest trees in tropical forests, but new research shows small trees can also be very old, and can even grow older than the big ones.
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#1195312019-01-22
Forest soil needs decades or centuries to recover from fires and logging
The 2009 Black Saturday fires burned 437,000 hectares of Victoria, including tens of thousands of hectares of Mountain Ash forest.
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#1195492019-01-23
What do trees do when we are not looking?
Getting to the root of the dos, whys and workings of trees can be an obsession for forest researchers. And for my fellow obsessed- pinpoint accuracy is our common ambition. So why is this so hard to do?
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#1195512019-01-23
Saving the forests of the Congo Basin: Q&A with author Meindert Brouwer
It was an ambitious project from the start: to capture the Congo Basin rainforest in the pages of a book. Stretching across an area larger than Saudi Arabia, the world’s second-largest rainforest straddles six countries in Central Africa.
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#1196212019-01-28
What's got four legs and costs Sweden a billion kronor a year?
Sweden's forestry agency has warned that more trees of several varieties are needed across the country – to avoid the damage caused to pine forests by hungry elk.
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#1196322019-01-28
Inequality promotes deforestation in Latin America
Tropical deforestation is a major contributor to climate change and loss of local and global ecosystem functions. Latin America accounts for a large share of remaining tropical forests, but also features deforestation rates well above the world average.
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#1196502019-01-29
Sacred groves of north Kerala: The last refuge for biodiversity
Sacred groves in Kerala temple helped preserve the bio-diversity of the land. While many have disappeared now, in others, temples have grown bigger and wide roads paved through these forest patches.
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#1196802019-01-30
Citizen science in Kenya’s Rift Valley
Participation is widely seen as a cornerstone of sustainable resource management, and it’s a pillar of Kenya’s 2010 constitution, too. In the remote highland forests and water catchments of the country’s Rift Valley region, the involvement of the community in undertaking science work has deliver ...
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#1196812019-01-30
Indian Farmers Are Building Food Forests to Fight Climate Change, Agrarian Crisis
While Amazon rainforests remain the world’s largest intact forest, according to recent research, the seemingly untouched forests were in fact manmade food forests. For thousands of years, humans were dependent on forests for food. In time, villages and farms replaced forests.