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#1305112021-09-22
Driven away by forest fires, wild horses return to Turkey’s Antalya
One month after the forest fires that ravaged the southern Turkish province of Antalya, wild horses who fled their habitat are back to Eynif Plain. Herds of free-roaming horses in Ibradı district, one of the locations hit by the forest fires that continued from July to August, dazzle visitors to ...
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#1347932022-05-31
Drastic declines in Neotropical birds in a protected Panamanian forest
Tropical forests harbor around two-thirds of the world’s biodiversity. The Neotropics—comprising Central America, the Caribbean and South America—are home to a third of the world’s known bird species, the highest among all biogeographical realms.
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#1294532021-07-07
Dogcams and dark forests: how The Truffle Hunters captured a beautiful, dangerous world
Poisoned bait, clandestine missions, top secret locations … we meet the directors of a film about the extraordinary Italians who forage for a delicacy that’s worth thousands
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#1263632020-12-18
Disturb forests, trigger new pandemics — study
The emergence of COVID-19 and other diseases of animal origin such as Ebola, SARS and HIV indicates that disturbing forests can trigger pandemics, say the authors of a new study, highlighting megatrends shaping the future of forests.
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#1229642019-11-11
Discover the mangrove forests inside Chennai’s Adyar Poonga
Inside the Adyar creek and estuary, we explore mangrove islands and a world of fish, turtles, and snakes, beneath their gravity-defying roots There are three ways to watch the dense green mangrove forests that distinguish Adyar creek and estuary: up, close, and personal.
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#1244832020-03-03
Directed species loss greatly reduces forest productivity: study
Scientists from China, Switzerland and Germany have discovered that directed species loss can severely hamper productivity in already diverse young forests.
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#1204632019-03-22
Des siècles seront nécessaires pour recréer les forêts d'Amérique du Sud
Lorsqu'un terrain proche d'une forêt tropicale redevient sauvage, il est rapidement colonisé par de nouveaux arbres. Mais la biodiversité met plusieurs siècles pour se reconstituer à l'identique.
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#1213202019-06-17
Deforested areas bleed heat to nearby forests, drive local extinctions
Areas cleared of forests bleed heat to neighboring forests, and this fuels increases in temperatures there, new research has found.
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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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#1208562019-04-25
Deforestation: Tropical tree losses persist at high levels
Around 12 million hectares of forest in the world's tropical regions were lost in 2018, equivalent to 30 football fields per minute.
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#1278272021-03-29
Deforestation: Consumption habits of person in rich country drives loss of ‘four trees each year’
Each person living in a G7 country causes nearly four trees to be lost each year through their consumption of goods such as coffee, cocoa and meat, a new study estimates.
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#1269252021-02-08
Deforestation: A Threat To The Heart Of Borneo
From the air we breathe, the wood we use, to being home to most of the Earth’s terrestrial biodiversity – forests are essential to every living creature. The World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) describe forests as the “lifeblood of our economies and our health.”
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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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#1249952020-04-02
Deforestation linked to emergence of new diseases
The continuing deforestation in the country could put the Philippines at risk from the emergence of new infectious diseases, as it loses one of its main protective barriers from possible outbreaks.
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#1268812021-02-04
Deforestation is stressing mammals out
Lots of us are feeling pretty anxious about the destruction of the natural world. It turns out, humans aren't the only ones stressing out—by analyzing hormones that accumulate in fur, researchers found that rodents and marsupials living in smaller patches of South America's Atlantic Forest are u ...
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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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#1317332021-11-16
Deforestation can raise local temperatures by up to 4.5 degrees Celsius, and heat untouched areas 6 km away
Forests directly cool the planet, like natural evaporative air conditioners. So what happens when you cut them down? In tropical countries such as Indonesia, Brazil and the Congo, rapid deforestation may have accounted for up to 75% of the observed surface warming between 1950 and 2010. Our new ...
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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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#1233412019-12-09
Deforestation Is a Death Sentence for Tropical Forest Animals
The wildlife that rely on tropical rainforests may be more screwed than we thought. A new study has found that tropical forest species are six times more sensitive to forest fragmentation than species in temperate ecosystems.
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#1298682021-08-10
Defending Forests in a Time of Climate Chaos
Twenty-five years ago, Darryl Cherney remarked that he expected tree-sitting to become a national pastime. From his high perch in a fragment of the decimated coastal forests of the California northcoast, he was exulting over how many young people from all over the country came to help.
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#1302442021-09-02
Decaying forest wood releases 10.9 billion tons of carbon yearly, which will increase with climate change
If you've wandered through a forest, you've probably dodged dead, rotting branches or stumps scattered on the ground. This is "deadwood," and it plays several vital roles in forest ecosystems.
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#1214432019-07-02
Dead mangrove forests in northern Australia found to emit more methane than live trees
Emissions from dead trees were eight times higher than those from the healthy trees
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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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#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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#1209582019-05-06
Cut emissions and poverty, not trees, by letting locals manage forests
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Giving local communities the responsibility to manage forests - which are shrinking worldwide - could help ease poverty and deforestation, scientists said on Monday in what they described as one of the largest studies of its kind.
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#1264462020-12-23
Critical temperature threshold spells shorter lives for tropical trees
Tropical trees have shorter life spans than trees in other parts of the world, living, for example, just over half as long as temperate trees. A new analysis suggests that, as the world warms up, tropical trees will live even shorter lives, spelling trouble for global biodiversity and carbon stocks.
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#1242472020-02-19
Country diary: smells like evergreen spirit
I love the smell of conifer resin in the morning. Here, on a skin-tingling frosty day, with the first rays of sunshine skimming the treetops, it scented the shadowy depths of the forest.
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#1262212020-12-14
Costa Rica will Recieve $60 million for the Protection of Forests
Costa Rica will receive $ 60 million from the World Bank over the next five years, in recognition of the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and for the protection of forests. The World Bank revealed today during an event in Brussels that Costa Rica would be among the countries that will recei ...
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#1293042021-06-14
Costa Rica May Become a Pioneer in Reforestation of Fruit Trees
Surely you have ever heard or read, that he who perseveres achieves, and that perseverance is a fundamental key in all purposes. The aforementioned is applicable to everything you want to do, it is part of the day to day, like the air we breathe.
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#1303482021-09-09
Conservation of forests key to uninterrupted supply of oxygen, water: Aaranyak
On the occasion of its 32nd Foundation Day today, premier biodiversity conservation and research organisation of the region, Aaranyak to reiterated its commitment to work with renewed vigour towards its mitigating key potential threats, as it has flagged, to the ecology and environment in North ...
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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 ...
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#1228672019-11-06
Commercial fungi pickers threaten Epping Forest biodiversity
A woodland is being stripped of wild mushrooms by pickers selling them off to restaurants and markets, it is claimed. The City of London Corporation (CLC) said commercial foragers had been targeting London's Epping Forest.
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#1321072021-12-09
Colombian Amazon: casualty of peace
In just a few minutes, an enormous century-year-old tree is felled by an electric saw in the middle of a protected national park. The giant collapses, sending a shockwave through the Colombian Amazon.
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#1331012022-02-10
Cocoa farming for forest conservation in Ghana
Cocoa cultivated in Ghana's forests is encroaching on natural ecosystems. Boosting the productivity of existing plantations could keep their expansion in check.
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#1349942022-06-14
Coal mining threatens Ethiopia’s ancient coffee forest
Sitting high in the hills of southwestern Ethiopia, the thick green forest of Yayu is a haven of biodiversity where Nuradin Aliyi, a third-generation wild-coffee farmer, has lived his whole life intertwined with nature.
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#1272682021-02-23
Climate impacts drive east-west divide in forest seed production
Younger, smaller trees that comprise much of North America's eastern forests have increased their seed production under climate change, but older, larger trees that dominate forests in much of the West have been less responsive, a new Duke University-led study finds.
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#1198252019-02-07
Climate change: 'Future proofing' forests to protect orangutans
A study has identified key tree species that are resilient to climate change and support critically endangered apes. Planting them could help future proof rainforests, which are a key habitat for orangutans, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature - IUCN.
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#1282152021-04-22
Climate change atlas offers a glimpse into forest futures
For 20 years, the USDA Forest Service's Climate Change Atlas has been giving foresters in the Eastern United States insight into how future habitat conditions may affect tree species, from dramatic change (a big increase of cedar elm, for example, and a big loss in balsam poplar) to the fairly n ...
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#1321682021-12-14
Climate benefits of forest restoration revealed
Tropical forests are converted at an alarming rate through deforestation, but also have the potential to regrow naturally on abandoned lands. Studies published recently show that regrowing tropical forests recover surprisingly fast and identify the best types of trees for aiding in this action.
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#1257342020-11-17
Climate Explained: what would happen if we cut down the Amazon rainforest?
What would happen if we cut down the entire Amazon rainforest? Could it be replaced by an equal amount of reforestation elsewhere? Removing the entire Amazon rainforest would have myriad consequences, with the most obvious ones possibly not the worst.
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#1298282021-08-09
Climate Change’s Dangerous Effects on the Boreal Forest
Much of the United States has been experiencing periodic heat waves this summer, which has contributed to droughts, fires, and overall discomfort. But the heat wave has extended all the way to the boreal forest, a unique ecosystem in the northern hemisphere that is one of the largest carbon sink ...
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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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#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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#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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#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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#1240872020-02-05
Charcoal-coated seedballs are re-planting Kenya’s lost forests.
Teddy Kinyanjui, one of Seedballs Kenya's co-founders, is on a mission to reverse Kenya's deforestation. The seedballs' charcoal coating protects the seeds inside and helps local trees repopulate deforested areas.
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#1299092021-08-11
Casualty of war: Yemen's forests at risk as fuel crisis surges
Beset by violence, engulfed by chaos for years, Yemen's problems might be on the verge of growing even more and spilling into an environmental crisis as well.
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#1228162019-10-31
Carbon bomb: Study says climate impact from loss of intact tropical forests grossly underreported
The study calculates new figures relating to intact tropical forest lost between 2000-2013 that show a staggering increase of 626 percent in the long-term net carbon impacts through 2050. The revised total equals two years' worth of all global land-use change emissions.
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#1199162019-02-12
Canada's forests actually emit more carbon than they absorb — despite what you've heard on Facebook
You might have heard that Canada's forests are an immense carbon sink, sucking up all sorts of CO2 — more than we produce — so we don't have to worry about our greenhouse gas emissions.
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#1327322022-01-25
Can we save our sequoias and fire lilies from climate change?
Standing in a sunlit grove of stately giant sequoias is a simultaneously humbling and uplifting experience. Dwarfed by the world's largest living organisms, some of which have stood since the fall of ancient Egypt and the onset of the Iron Age, we are reminded of our own insignificance in the gr ...