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#1248002020-03-20
The Fight for Our Future Depends on Forests
The health and future of our forests is inextricably tied to our own. While, too often, we view the value of forests through the lens corporate revenue, this International Day of Forests on March 21st, it’s worth remembering their true worth.
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#1233542019-12-10
The Bad Seeds: Are Wildfire Recovery Efforts Hurting Biodiversity?
In 2017 the Thomas fire raged through 281,893 acres in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, California, leaving in its wake a blackened expanse of land, burned vegetation, and more than 1,000 destroyed buildings.
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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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#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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#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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#1225922019-10-09
The Amazon Bioeconomy: Exploiting The Rainforest To Save It
The best way to preserve the planet's largest tropical rainforest is to intervene in a responsible and proportionate way, which also means giving it economic significance and value alongside its ecological relevance. Beyond avoiding deforestation, this would create social value for the Amazon by ...
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#1226762019-10-15
The 5 lessons from New York Climate Week to help us combat deforestation
Post-New York Climate Week and the Sustainable Development Impact Summit running alongside the UN General Assembly, it's an opportune moment to reflect on the climate crisis and deforestation's role in it.
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#1320702021-12-06
The 'agricultural mafia' taking over Brazil's Amazon rainforest
Encouraged by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and local authorities who want to see the development of agribusiness, an "agricultural mafia" is taking over the Amazon rainforest.
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#1266872021-01-26
Ten "golden rules" for reforestation have been set out by scientists as they warned poorly executed tree planting schemes can harm the environment.
Planting trees to reduce carbon emissions can be presented as an "easy answer" to tackling the climate crisis, but it can cause more problems than benefits, experts have said.
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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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#1324382022-01-12
Telangana: Indian Muntjac found in Asifabad forests after 25 years
Forest department officials in this district are elated, after they recorded the movement of Indian Muntjac, also known as barking deer in the jungles of this district. The recorded sighting assumes significance as last time these deers were recorded was a quarter century ago.
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#1285722021-05-12
Tanzania: Destroy Forests Today, Meet Bleak Future Ahead
SEVERAL studies globally have painted a picture where humans have destroyed a tenth of Earth's remaining wilderness in the last 25 years, and there may be none left within a century if the trends continues in our lifetime.
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#1211952019-05-24
Tall and old or dense and young: Which kind of forest is better for the climate?
In 2007, Richard Branson, the British business magnate, offered a $25 million prize to anyone who can invent a device capable of removing significant volumes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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#1198102019-02-06
Swiss forests under attack from bark beetle
The level of spruce trees in Swiss forests damaged by the bark beetle has reached its highest in more than a decade. A survey by the Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Researchexternal link found that 735,000 cubic metres of spruce suffered damage last year – more than twice as muc ...
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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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#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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#1234072019-12-12
Supertrees: Meet Congo’s caretaker of the forest
A pair of 70 horsepower outboard motors cut the river journey westward, from the city of Kisangani, to just two hours. By the more common motorized barges — floating cities in their own right, bursting with commerce and chaos — the journey is four times longer.
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#1294512021-07-07
Superior National Forest could provide refuge to wildlife as the climate warms
It’s a large region with rich and diverse habitats that provide homes for many plants and animals. So it’s an important resource – especially as the climate warms and species’ geographic ranges shift.
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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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#1320592021-12-06
Study Shows There is Hope For the Recovery of Tropical Forests After Deforestation
Deforestation is leading to the disappearance of tropical forests at an alarming rate, although they have the ability to recover naturally in abandoned areas. An international research headed by Wageningen University scientists revealed this.
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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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#1321992021-12-16
Strategic Forest Reserves Could Mitigate Climate Change, Protect Biodiversity
Researchers call for the creation of strategic forest reserves in the western United States.
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#1199172019-02-12
Stirling University to study climate impact on forests
An £800,000 study led by Stirling University will investigate how European forests are affected by changing climates. The project will focus on the impact of warming climates on beech, Europe's most widespread broadleaf tree - covering more than 15m hectares.
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#1234682019-12-17
Sri Lanka’s Sinharaja rainforest reserve to be quadrupled in size
Sri Lanka plans to quadruple the size of the protected area inside its last viable rainforest, in a nod to the ecological significance of the region.
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#1241952020-02-17
Spillover: encroachment into forests increases risk of contracting diseases from animals
Over the past two decades, scientists have been alarmed by the rapid spread of an infectious disease transmitted by tick bites that afflict forest-dwellers in the verdant, biodiverse tropical forests of the Western Ghats running parallel to India’s west coast. Caused by a virus, Kyasanur Forest ...
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#1348102022-06-01
Spatial aspects of biodiversity and the homogenization threat to forest ecosystems
A study from the Missouri Ozarks highlights the importance of spatial aspects of biodiversity for healthy functioning of naturally occurring forests.
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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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#1233042019-12-06
Southeast Asia’s modern-day plague
Southeast Asia is known for its vast rainforests which constitute about almost 20 percent of forest cover with the richest biodiversity in the world. What the region is also known for is its alarming rate of deforestation.
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#1213522019-06-20
South African forests show pathways to a sustainable future
Native forests make up 1percent of the landscape in South Africa but could play a key role in reducing atmospheric carbon and identifying sustainable development practices that can be used globally to counter climate change, according to a Penn State researcher.
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#1321472021-12-13
Solving multiple challenges while considering biodiversity and human rights
Strict social and environmental safeguards must be followed to prevent harm to biodiversity or human rights while advancing the scope of nature-based solutions in climate mitigation, a new report says.
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#1259172020-12-01
Socio-Economic Linkages between Sustainable Land Management, Climate Change & Biodiversity in Liberia
Liberia faces numerous environmental challenges including land degradation, fragmentation, deforestation, soil erosion, and pollution. The dependence on forestry presents a unique environmental risk as Liberia’s forest is part of the West African Hotspot.
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#1300942021-08-20
Smoke seasons aren't new but our efforts to control wildfires are, and should change
Like many people, I will remember this summer in shades of gray and red. As snapshots of a dull orange sun circulated social media, "zombie fires" rose from the Russian permafrost, entire towns were wiped off the map and Southern Europe became a scene of the apocalypse.Satellites tracked enormou ...
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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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#1242382020-02-19
Small but precious: small forest patches act as islands and corridors of biodiversity
Indian forest officer Rai Singh Jhala skirts the edge of the Monsoon Palace at Sajjangarh, perched high in the Aravalli hills just outside Udaipur city, in the west Indian state of Rajasthan.
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#1299102021-08-11
Slovenia’s new Juliana Trail reveals a land of water, rock and forest
They call the Soča the emerald river. To my eyes it’s turquoise, or sometimes a shocking shade of sapphire. Or like crushed crystal, coaxed into flow. Either way, it’s irresistible. Our trail runs by it and, step after step, our heads are made motionless by those blue-green waters.
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#1285732021-05-12
Since 1960, Earth's Forest Cover Has Shrunk About 1m Sq Km While Cropland, Pastures Have Increased
Whether it's turning forests into cropland or savannah into pastures, humanity has repurposed land over the last 60 years equivalent in area to Africa and Europe combined, researchers said Tuesday. If you count all such transitions since 1960, it adds up to about 43 million square kilometres (16 ...
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#1200262019-02-20
Sensors take the manual work out of forest monitoring
SÃO PAULO] A remote monitoring system rolled out in Brazil is taking over the exhausting and risky task of keeping an eye on commercial forests.
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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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#1276182021-03-09
Seeing the forest for the shrubs in southern Appalachia
As ecosystems respond to human activity, what species will emerge as new trailblazers, shaping the diversity and resilience of these changing environments? And how can land managers identify these species early on to better prepare for the future?
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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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#1210102019-05-10
Sea level rise will transform coastal forests into ghost forests
As sea levels rise, the ocean water kills salt-sensitive trees in coastal forests, leaving behind “ghost forests” of bare snags. Researchers at North Carolina State University have investigated how such changes in vegetation will affect various bird species.
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#1322192021-12-17
Scottish forestry’s ambitious targets to balance environmental, economic and social outcomes
Well before world leaders headed to Glasgow for November’s COP26, the Scottish Government, along with the rest of the UK, had already committed to some very ambitious tree-planting targets.
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#1284542021-05-06
Scientists urge greater role for forests in policies on food security and nutrition
A new policy brief demonstrates the role forests and trees play in sustaining food production and food security and nutrition (FSN).Featuring four dimensions of FSN, including availability, accessibility, utilization and stability, it aims to inform policy and decision making in forestry, while ...
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#1321802021-12-15
Scientists urge creating strategic forest reserves to mitigate climate change, protect biodiversity
The United States should immediately move to create a collection of strategic forest reserves in the Western U.S. to fight climate change and safeguard biodiversity, according to a scientific collaboration led by an Oregon State University ecologist.
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#1322272021-12-20
Scientists urge creating strategic forest reserves to mitigate climate change, protect biodiversity
The United States should immediately move to create a collection of strategic forest reserves in the Western U.S. to fight climate change and safeguard biodiversity, according to a scientific collaboration led by an Oregon State University ecologist.
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#1256182020-11-09
Scientists unravel how and why Amazon trees die
The capacity of the Amazon forest to store carbon in a changing climate will ultimately be determined by how fast trees die - and what kills them. Now, a huge new study has unravelled what factors control tree mortality rates in Amazon forests and helps to explain why tree mortality is increasin ...
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#1323562022-01-07
Scientists step up hunt for ‘Asian unicorn’, one of world’s rarest animals
Weighing 80-100kg and sporting long straight horns, white spots on its face and large facial scent glands, the saola does not sound like an animal that would be hard to spot
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#1225672019-10-08
Scientists reveal mystery of species coexistence in subtropical forests
Chinese scientists have discovered the mechanism regulating the coexistence of species in subtropical forests, providing a reference for ecosystem restoration in these areas.
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#1210672019-05-15
Scientists estimate: Half of tropical forests under hunting pressure
Hunting is a major threat to wildlife in tropical regions. A previous study led by Ana Benítez-López at Radboud University, showed that bird populations declined on average by 58 percent and mammal populations by 83 percent in hunted forests.
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#1225352019-10-04
Scientists discover interaction between good and bad fungi that drives forest biodiversity
Scientists have long understood that forest biodiversity is driven in part by something called rare-species advantage—that is, an individual tree has a better chance of survival if there are only a few other trees of the same species around. As a result, when the number of trees of any given spe ...