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#1223472019-09-24
How fires weaken Amazon rainforests’ ability to bounce back
The flames consuming the Amazon rainforest this year have alarmed the world, renewing concerns about one of the planet’s most biodiverse regions and the release of large amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. But there’s another concern that’s been largely overlooked – the eroding capacity of Am ...
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#1223212019-09-23
'Edible forests' can fight land clearing and world hunger at the same time
Reducing emissions from deforestation and farming is an urgent global priority if we want to control climate change. However, like many climate change problems, the solution is complicated. Cutting down forests to plant edible crops feeds some of the world's hungriest people.
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#1223262019-09-23
Gabon becomes the first African country to receive funding for preserving its rainforests
In an effort to fight climate change, the United Nations announced Sunday that Gabon will become the first African country paid with international funds to preserve its rainforest.
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#1223052019-09-20
How wild mushroom delicacies in Goa are threatening its forests
The onset of rains in Goa not only mean change in the weather but also eating habits. As monsoon winds and a two-month fishing ban make fishing in the sea difficult, river fish find pride of place in daily meals. Meanwhile, for vegetarians, it’s the season for Olmi or edible wild mushrooms, wide ...
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#1223062019-09-20
Just how much of the Amazon is burning?
You've seen it all over the news: Fires in the Amazon and throughout South America have been raging for weeks, sparking dire predictions about climate change, criticism of the Brazilian government over increased deforestation, and a viral moment of social media grief coalescing around the hashta ...
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#1222532019-09-18
Amazon rainforest critical is to human life
It is unbelievable that some political leaders do not understand or are far-removed from the realities which globalization brings about in this fast-paced world in which we live. Politicians are elected not only to serve a subset or special group interests. Politicians are elected to design and ...
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#1222282019-09-16
‘A green desert’: Mammals take a hit in Colombia’s oil palm plantations
As oil palm plantations expand across the world, razing swaths of tropical rainforests in their path, fears about their impact on the environment have also grown. In the plantations of Colombia, a new study has found yet another way they are altering global biodiversity: by impacting the diversi ...
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#1222212019-09-13
Amazon fish species at risk if fires destroy river habitat
MANAUS, Brazil — This year’s unusually severe fires in the Amazon have not only attracted widespread international attention, but also illuminated the effects of mounting deforestation in the region, from evaporating rains to rising carbon dioxide emissions. Yet one effect of forest loss in the ...
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#1221902019-09-12
What would happen if all the world's trees disappeared?
In Mad Max: Fury Road, Charlize Theron’s Furiosa strives to return to “the Green Place” – a tree-filled oasis in the otherwise lifeless wasteland that the Earth has become. When Furiosa arrives at the sacred spot, however, she finds only skeletal trunks and sprawling dunes. She screams in anguis ...
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#1221912019-09-12
Scientists are finding that forests aren’t as good at fighting climate change as we thought
Bob Marra navigated his way to the back of a dusty barn in Hamden, Connecticut, belonging to the state’s Agricultural Experiment Station. There, past piles of empty beehives, on a wall of metal shelves, were stacks of wooden disks—all that remains of 39 trees taken down in 2014 from Great Mounta ...
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#1221982019-09-12
The Amazon's new tallest tree is 50% taller than previous tallest tree
Sometimes even the largest natural wonders can remain hidden from human view for centuries. The Amazon is a dense place, full of life with new species of flora and fauna being discovered every other day. Now, using the same technology that takes driverless cars from A to B, we—led by Eric Gorgen ...
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#1222002019-09-12
Why are our rainforests burning?
Rainforests don't burn, or do they?At the moment, many of us in Australia are seeing reports of the Queensland wildfires burning down rainforests.
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#1222032019-09-12
There Is More Money In The Borneo Rainforest’s Biodiversity Than In Its Deforestation
Some of the last remaining primary forests of Southeast Asia are found in Borneo, a biodiversity hotspot where you can still walk through ancient forests and prehistoric caves. The heavy wing beats of helmeted hornbills brings you a little closer to what it may have been like when pterodactyls d ...
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#1221702019-09-11
Fires In Brazil’s Amazon Have Devastating Consequences – Analysis
A dense layer of pollution has plagued the Brazilian cities of São Paulo, Manaus and Cuiabá for days on end, rolling in from the large number of fires burning mainly in the southern Amazon.
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#1221512019-09-10
The Amazon Rainforest Was Once a Human Success Story. It Could Be Again
A season of intense, human-caused wildfires in the Amazon rainforest has scorched thousands of square miles of forest, blackened the skies over São Paulo, and sparked international concern about the fate of the most biodiverse landscape on the planet.
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#1221622019-09-10
Sustainable development in Asia: seeing both the forests and the trees
As a young Asian business leader, it is fascinating to be part of an important transformation – the rise of Asia in the global economy. Next year is expected to mark the tipping point when the continent’s economies surpass the rest of the world in terms of purchasing power parity.
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#1221642019-09-10
Haiti gets its first private nature reserve to protect forests and species
Haiti may not be the first place you think of when nature reserves come to mind. Much of Haiti has been ravaged by hurricanes, and the primary source of energy for use in homes in Haiti is charcoal, which is created by local people from local trees. Mainly, the image of Haiti has been a stark ...
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#1221262019-09-06
Tree cover is not enough for sustainable development, a global map of forests naturalness is also required
Global forest status assessments are biased toward tree cover and do not properly consider ecological properties of forest ecosystems.
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#1221272019-09-06
Forest-killing bark beetles also might help ecosystem, experts say
DENVER, Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Tiny bark beetles the size of a black bean have killed entire mountainsides of pine trees in the western U.S, but ecologists and forest managers disagree about whether they are a pest or a boon to wildlife ecosystems.
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#1221362019-09-06
Deforestation affects the forest, the rivers and “the entire biosphere”, experts warn
The deforestation of the Amazon region harms its rivers and vice versa, then goes on to affect “the entire biosphere”.
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#1220902019-09-03
Senegal is planting millions of mangrove trees to fight deforestation
Mangrove forests are important ecosystems, protecting against floods, soaking up carbon and providing a home to thousands of species.
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#1220722019-08-30
‘Not a pretty picture’: South China’s forests vanish as tree farms move in
Forests in South China have been increasingly replaced by monoculture ecalyptus plantations grown for wood fiber for the pulp and paper industry. Even forests under official protection haven’t been spared.
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#1220532019-08-29
Amazon fires: Brazil bans land clearance blazes for 60 days
Brazil has banned setting fires to clear land for 60 days in response to a massive increase in the number of fires in the Amazon rainforest.
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#1220542019-08-29
"We have cut them all’: Ghana struggles to protect its last old-growth forests
KUMASI, Ghana — The West African country of Ghana is known for having rich natural resources including vast tracts of rainforest. But its primary forest has all but vanished, with what remains generally relegated to reserves scattered throughout the country’s southern third.
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#1220282019-08-28
Protecting Georgian forests from space
In the tiny village of Sabue, Georgia, people had been concerned about the activities of a logging company in the woods close to their homes for years, but there was not much they could do—the company had been legally permitted to cut trees in this area.
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#1220312019-08-28
From destruction to rejuvenation: When forest fires are a good thing
Fires can be catastrophic in rainforests such as the Amazon, but they don't necessarily spell disaster everywhere — sometimes they help replenish ecosystems.
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#1220142019-08-27
Bolivia: catastrophic wildfires devastate forest in echo of Brazil's Amazon crisis
Bolivia’s president announced he would interrupt his re-election campaign for a week to help coordinate foreign aid efforts
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#1220182019-08-27
It takes a community to map a forest
Noar Natolo and Scovia Bulyaba are carpet weavers and members of the Nagoje community living in Mabira Forest, in Uganda.
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#1220202019-08-27
Bolsonaro expresses ‘love’ for Amazon as it burns, offers no policy shift
The number of fires in the Amazon biome topped 41,858 in 2019 as of August 24 (up from 22,000 this time last year).
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#1220232019-08-27
Rain will not extinguish Amazon fires for weeks, weather experts say
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Weak rainfall is unlikely to extinguish a record number of fires raging in Brazil’s Amazon anytime soon, with pockets of precipitation through Sept. 10 expected to bring only isolated relief, according to weather data and two experts.
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#1219862019-08-22
The Amazon is burning at record rates—and deforestation is to blame
The blazes are so huge that smoke can be seen from space, and experts say the fires could have major climate impacts.
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#1219952019-08-22
Brazil forest fires rage as farmers push into the Amazon
Forest fires are surging in Brazil, with the country's space agency reporting almost 8,000 fires already this year.
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#1219482019-08-20
Insect-eating bird population drops in heavily extracted Himalayan oak forests
Long-term rural extraction of biomass in oak-dominated Himalayan forests disturbs the forest structure.
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#1219352019-08-19
Tigers are vanishing outside protected areas in the northeast
Many forests outside protected areas in Northeast India have lost their tiger populations over the last century, though there is an overall increase in tiger numbers as per the latest census report.
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#1219192019-08-16
Forest-friendly chocolate
Sougue Kadjatou is a 45-year-old farmer who lives with her husband and two children in Agboville, a village in Côte d’Ivoire.
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#1219232019-08-16
Koala extinction in NSW 'possible' if no urgent action, inquiry told
An inquiry into the future of New South Wales' koala population has received hundreds of submissions amid claims extinction of the marsupial is "possible" without urgent action.
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#1219322019-08-16
Deforestation, climate crisis could crash Amazon tree diversity: study
New research finds that when climate change and deforestation impacts are taken together, up to 58 percent of Amazon tree species richness could be lost by 2050, of which 49 percent would have some degree of risk for extinction.
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#1218852019-08-14
More than half of world’s forest wildlife lost in 40 years, study finds
The amount of wildlife in the world’s forests has plummeted by more than half (53 per cent) in just over 40 years, conservationists have found.
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#1218942019-08-14
Study details links between coca, conflict, deforestation in Colombia
Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Sometimes, trees fall down on their own, but deforestation is fueled by human activities. In Colombia, those activities sometimes involve coca, the crop from which cocaine is derived.
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#1218832019-08-13
Tree-damaging pests pose ‘devastating’ threat to 40% of US forests
About 450 overseas pests have been introduced to US forests, a climate crisis resource, due to international trade and travel
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#1218602019-08-09
Forests: A key piece of the land and climate puzzle (commentary)
The vital contribution of forests in protecting biodiversity, regulating the climate, and enhancing human well-being is being recognized as never before.
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#1218302019-08-07
'Part of German soul' under threat as forests die
A catastrophic combination of heat, drought, storms, forest fires, beetle plagues and a fungi blight have so far this year destroyed swathes of German forest equivalent to more than 200,000 football fields.
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#1217822019-08-02
Dazzling new mimic beetles found, may already be under threat
Jewel weevils are so good at deterring predators with their iridescent displays, other beetles are mimicking them, new research shows.
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#1217602019-07-31
Deforestation drops in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, but risks remain: experts
Deforested areas in Brazil’s most imperiled biome, the Mata Atlântica, were reduced by 9.3 percent from October 2017 to April 2018, compared year-to-year, according to a joint report from the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and Fundação SOS Mata Atlântica, an NGO.
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#1217402019-07-30
How do you protect what’s ‘everywhere but nowhere?’
Ethiopia - Yesterday Ethiopia began its ambitious 4 billion tree planting program.
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#1217412019-07-30
Improved estimates of Brazilian Amazon gains and losses
A new study generated improved annual maps of tropical forest cover in the Brazilian Amazon in 2000-2017 and provided better characterization on the spatio-temporal dynamics of forest area, loss and gain in this region.
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#1217312019-07-29
Forestry sector cultivates SDG action plan
With scrutiny around corporate strategies related to deforestation intensifying, a select group of companies representing the forestry sector have published the latest in a series of industry-specific guides meant to help meaningful corporate action take root.
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#1216992019-07-25
Europe's forests are booming. Here's why.
Around the world, forests are shrinking due to deforestation, urban development and climate change, but in Europe that trend has been reversed.
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#1217012019-07-25
EU moves to tackle deforestation caused by chocolate and other products
Campaigners hail scheme to protect and restore forests around the world as ‘pivotal step’ towards ensuring goods remain untainted
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#1216672019-07-23
Commission steps up EU action to protect and restore the world's forests
Today the European Commission adopted a comprehensive Communication setting out a new framework of actions to protect and restore the world's forests, which host 80% of biodiversity on land, support the livelihoods of around a quarter of the world's population, and are vital to our efforts to fi ...