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#1224502019-10-01
Why the world should care about the future of the Amazon
Two months after visiting Manu National Park in the Peruvian Amazon for Prof. Alex Trillo's tropical terrestrial biology course, a group of Gettysburgians are now in shock.
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#1224532019-10-01
Restoring forests 1 tree at a time, to help repair climate
Destruction of the forests can be swift. Regrowth is much, much slower.But around the world, people are putting shovels to ground to help it happen.
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#1224652019-10-01
In the Wake of Climate Week, Here’s a Future Roadmap for Forests
As we were often reminded during the recent Climate Week events, forests are in full retreat around the world—and their loss has dire implications for countless species, including us.
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#1224762019-10-02
The Path to a Profitable and Protected Amazon
The Amazon is burning. Physically, the world has seen more deforestation and fires in Brazil’s portion of the Amazon this year than at any other point in nearly a decade. But figuratively, a conflagration over economic development in the region blazes even more fiercely.
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#1224772019-10-02
How developing countries put forests on the climate agenda
This is part three in a series about how forests and farms came to play roles in addressing climate change. Here are part one and part two. This story is also part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.
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#1224882019-10-02
Preventing future forest diebacks
Bark beetles, heat, drought, storms, and fires have damaged the German forests. Those who go for a walk there often encounter dead spruces and dried beech trees. "The forests are affected in all regions and need quick help," says the website of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture.
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#1225102019-10-03
Planting Forests, Key To Sustainable Living
Everyone is committed to making their lives more sustainable in the midst of global climate challenges. But oftentimes, people forget that the simplest of things will help mitigate global warming. Keeping forests, for one, can help lessen carbon storage in the atmosphere. The United Nations have ...
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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 ...
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#1225502019-10-07
The unrecognized cost of Indonesia’s fires (commentary)
Three decades ago, scientists surveying the forests of Malaysian Borneo discovered a plant extract that killed HIV in a test tube. When they returned to the field site to collect more samples, they were surprised to find the peat forest had been cleared. Subsequent surveys in the region proved f ...
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#1225532019-10-07
Fruit bats 'vitally important' to Guam's forests
Seed dispersal on Guam, a crucial process for regenerating and diversifying the island's forests that has significantly declined with the diminishing bird population, is still being carried out by the few remaining Mariana fruit bats, or fanihi, a University of Guam graduate student confirmed in ...
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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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#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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#1226242019-10-11
‘Witnessing extinction in the flames’ as the Amazon burns for agribusiness
TRIUNFO DO XINGU, Brazil — The rolling hills of the Triunfo do Xingu protected area in northern Brazil are a patchwork of vibrant emerald green and deep burnt orange.
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#1226682019-10-15
Are Plantation Forests Eco Friendly Or Just ‘Green Deserts’?
A forest is a complex, biodiversity-rich, self-regenerating ecosystem, consisting of soil, water, microclimate, and a wide variety of plants and animals in mutual coexistence, on a piece of land. Trees are naturally regenerated in ‘natural forests’. Natural Forests have high biomass density, i.e ...
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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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#1226792019-10-15
Forests on the radar
With freely available radar data from satellites, biodiversity in forests can be analysed very well. In Nature Communications, researchers report that biodiversity even of tiny insects can be reliably modeled from space.
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#1227652019-10-28
'Green gold' tree offers Brazil deforestation hope
Trees that help keep soils fertile could slow or stop deforestation in Brazil's "arc of destruction". A project using inga trees hopes to show smallholders that they can earn a decent living from the land. Inga trees, known as ice-cream bean trees, fix nitrogen into the soil, boosting productivi ...
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#1227792019-10-29
How do you save endangered gorillas? With lots of human help
Deep in the rainforest of Volcanoes National Park, a 23-year-old female gorilla named Kurudi feeds on a stand of wild celery. She bends the green stalks and, with long careful fingers, peels off the exterior skin to expose the succulent inside.
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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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#1228282019-11-01
Italian forum calls for biodiversity to fight climate change
Boosting biodiversity and improving sustainable forest management were two crucial steps to fight climate change in the long term, Italy's second National Forum on Bioeconomy of Forests urged on Thursday.
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#1228492019-11-01
Assam, French agency sign 50-mln euro forest restoration pact
Assam on Monday signed a pact worth 50-million euros with a French agency to help restore the state's forests and preserve its biodiversity, officials said. The partnership marks the launch of the second phase of the Assam Project for Forest and Biodiversity Conservation (APFBC).
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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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#1228862019-11-06
How studying nature's symphony can help scientists determine the fate of rainforests
Every morning, come daybreak, ecosystems around the world break out in song. These are dawn choruses, explosions of sound that happen at the edge of night and day, for reasons scientists don’t fully understand. In terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments at every latitude, insects, fish, ...
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#1229632019-11-11
The forests of the Amazon are an important carbon sink
The world's tropical forests store huge quantities of carbon in their biomass and thus constitute an important carbon sink. However, current estimates of the amount of carbon dioxide stored in tropical forests of the Amazon vary largely. Scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Resea ...
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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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#1230022019-11-15
Dwindling tropical rainforests mean lost medicines yet to be discovered in their plants
Growing up in Tanzania, I knew that fruit trees were useful. Climbing a mango tree to pick a fruit was a common thing to do when I was hungry, even though at times there were unintended consequences.
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#1230412019-11-18
Romania's forests under mounting threat—along with rangers
Like thick wrinkles, a multitude of dirt roads cut through barren slopes in Romania's mountainous Valea Rea region, showing the impact of aggressive illegal logging—which is not just threatening its rare forests but human life too.
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#1231032019-11-25
Experts blame Bolsonaro for surge in deforestation, warn of worse to come
The highest rate of destruction of the Brazilian Amazon in over a decade is likely to worsen through the term of President Jair Bolsonaro if effective measures to halt deforestation don’t come into force, experts warn.
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#1231232019-11-26
Guyana refutes findings that deforestation skyrocketed after REDD+ payments stopped
A landmark five-year, $250-million pay-for-performance agreement between wealthy, oil-rich Norway and heavily forested Guyana was supposed to keep the South American nation’s biodiverse and carbon-rich forests standing and their carbon out of the atmosphere.
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#1231312019-11-26
Future forests facing climate balancing act
Forests can cope with a warming world if - and only if - temperature rises increase in line with increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide.
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#1231442019-11-27
The impact of the soil microbiota on the mitigation of greenhouse gases in tropical forests
The impact of the soil microbiota on the mitigation of greenhouse gases in tropical forests was the topic of a lecture given by Tsai Siu Mui, a professor and vice-director at CENA-USP.
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#1231552019-11-27
Ecosystems restoration is a grassroots response to global challenges
Interview with Musonda Mumba, UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) incoming chair of the Global Partnership on Forests and Landscape Restoration.
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#1232062019-12-02
‘Let the forests grow’: protecting old trees key in EU’s fight against climate change
The European Union (EU) has a unique chance to effectively abate the dire consequences of the looming climate emergency on future generations — and to do so it needs to address the problems in its own backyard, a leading climate scientist said on Monday.
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#1232512019-12-04
Within sight of New York City, an old-growth forest faces storms and sea-level rise
Bounding the southern approach to New York harbor, New Jersey's low, narrow Sandy Hook peninsula is home to an extremely rare forest: a 65-acre patch of eastern holly and red cedar trees, some of which date to the early 1800s. Close to sea level, rooted in nutrient-poor sand and exposed to wind ...
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#1232782019-12-05
Looking at tropical forests through new eyes
New University of Arizona-led science is using air-based maps of plant chemistry to improve carbon cycling models in hyperdiverse tropical forests
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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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#1233122019-12-06
‘A crisis situation’: Extinctions loom as forests are erased in Mozambique
t’s nighttime on Mount Nallume in central Mozambique and the chirping of frenzied crickets fills the thick forest air. Then, toward midnight, another voice joins the cacophony.
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#1233402019-12-09
How to design a forest fit to heal the planet
Reforestation has enormous potential as a cheap and natural way of sucking heat-absorbing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and restoring the degraded natural world, while supporting local livelihoods at the same time. But there is more than one way to plant a tree – and some of the most wide ...
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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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#1233422019-12-09
New UN forestry project to help countries meet climate commitments
More than two dozen countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America are set to benefit from a UN project to help tackle climate change through better forestry management. Under the scheme, announced on Monday by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 26 nations will soon be able to provide ...
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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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#1233992019-12-11
Tree cavities for wild honeybees
The forests in Europe provide habitat for around 80,000 colonies of wild honeybees. That is why more attention should be paid to preserving the nesting sites for these threatened insects, according to researchers.
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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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#1234302019-12-12
Mites can change their diet depending on environmental conditions
The transformation and degradation of natural landscapes due to human activities has been intensifying for several decades. This is especially true for forestland: its area decreases each year, especially in tropical regions.
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#1234402019-12-13
These Rat-Eating Monkeys Are Helping Protect Palm Oil Harvests
Found as an ingredient in many processed and packaged foods, palm oil is the most widely consumed vegetable oil. Now, researchers reporting in Current Biology have discovered an unlikely ally for palm oil production: pig-tailed macaques.
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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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#1234762019-12-17
Wildfire's impact on water quality
A wildfire's path of destruction is not limited to things that burn—water is at risk too. When fires jump from forests and grasslands to urban areas, they incinerate household and industrial items such as computers and cars, leaving behind a stew of chemicals and heavy metals.
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#1235142019-12-18
More forest patches, healthier diets
Poor diets have become a major global health concern, as people with overweight or micronutrient deficiencies have come to outnumber those who are hungry or under-nourished, according to a leading scientist.
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#1235322019-12-19
B.C.'s clear-cut forests are 'dead zones,' emitting more greenhouse gases than fossil fuels, report finds
The clear-cutting of B.C.'s forests is contributing more to greenhouse gases than the burning of fossil fuels, according to a new report from the Sierra Club of B.C. The report found that 3.6 million hectares of old-growth and second-growth forests were clear-cut in the province between 2005 and ...
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#1235572019-12-20
Oireachtas committee: Farmers should champion the planting of forests to tackle climate change
The promotion of forestry to tackle climate change needs to be championed by farmers if rural Ireland is to embrace afforestation, an Oireachtas committee has heard