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Mangrove destruction partly to blame for Myanmar toll: ASEAN chief Singapore (AFP) May 6, 2008 
The destruction of mangrove forests that served as a buffer from the sea is partly to blame for the massive death toll from a cyclone in Myanmar, the head of the ASEAN regional bloc said Tuesday. More than 15,000 people have died after the cyclone swept through the Irrawaddy river delta over the weekend and pounded Myanmar's main city of Yangon, the country's state media reported. ... read more |
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Greenpeace welcomes move to save Indonesia's forests
Jakarta (AFP) May 2, 2008Environment group Greenpeace on Friday welcomed Unilever's backing of a moratorium on palm oil deforestation in Indonesia, saying the move will help save forests in the sprawling archipelago. The Anglo-Dutch food and consumer goods company announced Thursday it would aim to use only palm oil from fully traceable sources by 2015 in an effort to reduce the rapid despoiling of Indonesia's ... more Asia's rainforests vanishing as timber, food demand surge: experts 
Hanoi (AFP) April 27, 2008Asia's rainforests are being rapidly destroyed, a trend accelerated by surging timber demand in booming China and India, and record food, energy and commodity prices, forest experts warn. The loss of these biodiversity hot spots, much of it driven by the illegal timber trade and the growth of oil palm, biofuel and rubber plantations, is worsening global warming, species loss and poverty ... more Fire sweeps through Siberian forests 
Moscow (AFP) April 23, 2008Russian fire services were on Wednesday battling blazes across Siberia blamed on an exceptionally mild winter and illegal logging. The emergency situations ministry said on its website that 36,000 hectares (89,000 acres) were burning in the Amur, Buryatiya, Khabarovsk, Primorsky and Jewish Autonomous provinces. Another 11,000 hectares (27,000 acres) of forest had been consumed by fire in ... more World's Oldest Living Tree Discovered In Sweden 
Dalarna, Sweden (SPX) Apr 18, 2008The world's oldest recorded tree is a 9,550 year old spruce in the Dalarna province of Sweden. The spruce tree has shown to be a tenacious survivor that has endured by growing between erect trees and smaller bushes in pace with the dramatic climate changes over time. For many years the spruce tree has been regarded as a relative newcomer in the Swedish mountain region. "Our results have ... more Forests' Long-Term Potential For Carbon Offsetting 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 15, 2008As well as cutting our fossil fuel emissions, planting new forests, or managing existing forests or agricultural land more effectively can capitalise on nature's ability to act as a carbon sink. Research published online in the open access journal Carbon Balance and Management shows that although planting trees alone is unlikely to solve our climate problems, large-scale plantations could have a ... more |
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Brasilia (AFP) April 6, 2008Brazil's government is to pay residents of the Amazon money and credits for their "eco-services" in helping to preserve the vast forested area sometimes called the "lungs of the Earth" for its role its converting carbon dioxide. Environment Minister Marina Silva has presented the measure as a priority and said "keeping the forest going is an important environmental service" for the entire ... more Nigeria's forests to disappear by 2020: expert 
Kano (AFP) March 27, 2008Nigeria will lose all of its remaining forests in the next 12 years if the rate of deforestation remains unchecked, an environmental expert warned Thursday. "Considering the rate at which trees are chopped down without any regeneration efforts ... all of Nigeria's forests will disappear by 2020," Kabiru Yammama told AFP. Yammama, who heads up the National Forest Conservation Council ... more Macedonia plants two million trees to revive its forests 
Skopje (AFP) March 12, 2008Macedonians took a day off work on Wednesday to plant more than two million trees throughout the country in a bid to revive its forests after fires ravaged an estimated 35,000 hectares (87,000 acres) last summer. The initiative, held under the motto "The Day of the Tree -- Plant Your Future," was organized by Boris Trajanov, prominent Macedonian opera singer and UNESCO Artist for Peace. ... more Deforestation Worsening In Brazil Claims Greenpeace 
Sao Paulo (AFP) March 6, 2008Deforestation of Brazil's Amazon region is set to worsen this year, or at least remain at the same devastating level of the past couple of years, the environmental activist group Greenpeace said Thursday. "Field studies show that there are more deforested areas than those seen by satellite, because of cloud cover. There are completely covered area that have not had satellite imagery for four ... more Secrets Of Cooperation Between Trees And Fungi Revealed 
Gent, Belgium (SPX) Mar 07, 2008Trees and fungi have constructed a close relationship with the passing of the ages. Fungi like to grow between the roots of trees and the arrangement is beneficial to both partners. Their delicate balance is now being revealed for the very first time. VIB researchers at Ghent University in colaboration with an international team have succeeded in unravelling the genetic code of the Laccaria bico ... more |
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Woods Hole MA (SPX) Feb 15, 2008Scientists at the Woods Hole Research Center working to produce the "National Biomass and Carbon Dataset" for the year 2000 are releasing data from nine project mapping zones. All NBCD2000 data products are being made available for download on a zone-by-zone basis and free of charge from the NBCD2000 project website. Through a combination of NASA satellite datasets, topographic ... more Skin disease linked with deforestation 
Ann Arbor, Mich. (UPI) Feb 13, 2008 U.S. scientists have determined deforestation and social marginalization increase the risk of acquiring an infectious, tropical skin disease. The University of Michigan researchers examined the incidence of the disease American cutaneous leishmaniasis, or ACL, in Costa Rica. ACL -- characterized by skin lesions caused by an infectious organism carried by sand flies -- most common ... more No amnesty for Amazon deforestation: Brazil 
Brasilia (AFP) Feb 11, 2008Brazil's government on Monday dismissed reports suggesting an amnesty was being considered for landowners who were contributing to the deforestation of the Amazon. Brasilia "is not working on any amnesty proposal for those behind illegal deforestation or on any weakening of legislation" protecting the woodland, Environment Minister Marina Silva told reporters. She and Agriculture Minister ... more FAO warns of 'alarming' loss of mangroves 
Rome (AFP) Jan 31, 2008Mangrove swamps have shrunk by an "alarming" rate though their disappearance is slowing with improved awareness of their importance to biodiversity, the UN food agency said on Thursday. "The world has lost around 3.6 million hectares (8.9 million acres) of mangroves since 1980, equivalent to an alarming 20 percent loss of total mangrove area," the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation ... more Brazil takes action to stop alarming deforestation of Amazon
Brasilia (AFP) Jan 24, 2008Brazil announced a series of measures Thursday aimed at stopping an alarming rise in deforestation of the Amazon over the past five months. The initiatives reinforced a number of actions unveiled a month ago and called for stepped-up police vigilance, a ban on using deforested areas, and the suspension of public funds for any group or individual found to be breaking environmental laws. C ... more
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