News About Trees and Forests 09-NOV-09 en-us Dakar (AFP) Nov 6, 2009 - A Senegalese environmental NGO announced Friday that it had planted 34 million mangrove trees in three months in a project largely financed by French dairy giant Danone to offset its carbon footprint.]]> Brasilia (AFP) Nov 4, 2009 - Brazil lost 400 square kilometers (154 square miles) of Amazon jungle in September, but deforestation slowed by a third compared with the same month last year, according to official data released Wednesday.]]> Columbia MO (SPX) Nov 04, 2009 - Frogs are croaking in clear-cut forests, but not exactly in their traditional manner. University of Missouri researchers found that removing all of the trees from a section of the forest had a negative effect on amphibians during their later life cycles, but had some positive effects during amphibians' aquatic larva stages at the beginning of their lives.]]> Moscow (AFP) Nov 2, 2009 - A global warming pact to be agreed next month in Copenhagen must take into account the carbon dioxide absorption potential of Russia's sprawling forests, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday.]]> Buenos Aires (AFP) Oct 22, 2009 - The equivalent of 36 football fields are being stripped from the world's forests each minute, the environmental group World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) said in a statement released here on Thursday.]]> Corvallis OR (SPX) Oct 26, 2009 - Global warming in the next century could cause a significant increase in the productivity of high-elevation forests of the Pacific Northwest, a new study suggests. However, forests at lower elevations - which in recent years have accounted for more than 80 percent of the region's timber harvest - could face a decline in growth.]]> Washington (AFP) Oct 20, 2009 - Six developing countries will join five western nations, including the United States and Britain, to combat climate change by better managing forestry resources, the World Bank said Tuesday.]]> Rome (AFP) Oct 20, 2009 - The UN food agency Tuesday announced a satellite image database on the degradation of the world's forests as part of efforts to reduce global warming caused by greenhouse gases.]]> Madrid (AFP) Oct 13, 2009 - Underground fires have been raging for weeks in a wetlands area in southern Spain, sparked by the dry summer and the overuse of water for agriculture, an environmentalist said Tuesday.]]> Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (AFP) Oct 13, 2009 - President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Tuesday he will offer to reduce the pace of deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rain forest by 80 percent by 2020 when he attends December's global climate talks in Copenhagen.]]>