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Roads of destruction: we found vast numbers of illegal ‘ghost roads’ used to crack open pristine rainforest
What harm can a road do? Plenty. Once built, illegal roads let loggers, miners, poachers and landgrabbers into the jungle, and the felling begins.
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Philanthropist group buys up large tracts of land in Romania to create ‘European Yellowstone’
Local residents who at first suspected gold or uranium deposits had been found are being won over by the initiative to protect nature and economically develop the areas involved
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The humble spotted gum is a world class urban tree. Here's why
Tall. Straight. Abundant flowers. And a stunning trunk. What’s not to like about the spotted gum?
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Forest regeneration scheme has created area smaller than Regent’s Park
Just 192 hectares of ‘natural colonisation’ have been established in England under woodland creation offer
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Deforestation blamed for craters that could swallow a city of 70,000
A Brazilian city with a population of 73,000 people is perched on the edge of disaster due to poor urban planning and deforestation. Deep craters are forming in and around the city of Buriticupu, located in the country’s northeast, which have swallowed up houses, streets and people alike.
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India has lost the second-largest forest area among all countries in five years
India lost 668,400 hectares (ha) of jungles on average between 2015 and 2020, a new report has said.
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Why deforestation means less rain in tropical forests
A new study has uncovered that forest loss is changing weather patterns in the world's three largest remaining tropical rainforests. The study, published in the journal Nature last month, found that clearing wide swaths of trees — what's known as deforestation — reduces rainfall in tropical rainforests which actually generate their own rain. When it rains, trees soak up and use that water. They then release that moisture, both through evaporation and through their leaves. That humid air rises and helps create clouds, which in turn create more rain.
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Does a Vast Network of Fungi Connect Forests? Here's What We Know.
The possibility that communication networks of fungi exist connecting forest ecosystems in a 'wood-wide web' has increasingly gained attention among researchers in recent decades.
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Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon falls in first month under Lula
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest fell in January from a year earlier, satellite data showed on Friday, in the first monthly figures under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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California Lost 36 Million Trees to Drought Last Year
Hot and dry conditions weakened trees, making them more likely to perish from insects and disease.
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‘Rarest of the rare’: B.C’s newest conservancy protects globally imperilled rainforest
A globally endangered rainforest with cedar trees more than 1,000 years old will be permanently protected in a new conservancy in southeast B.C. The 58,000-hectare conservancy in the Incomappleux Valley was announced Wednesday by Premier David Eby, who called the valley’s rare inland temperate rainforest “one of B.C.’s greatest treasures.”
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The Senegal man on a mission to plant five million trees
Adama Diémé was motivated after seeing once-verdant villages in Senegal without a single tree.
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‘When in doubt, plant a nut tree’: the push to seed America with chestnuts
Chestnut forests could provide food security for communities, be a boon for farmers and benefit the environment
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Trees store 'twice as much carbon' as once thought
Mature trees found in UK forests play a critical role in fighting climate change, a study suggests
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Grim Study Shows 10 Years of 'Carbon Offsets' in California Had No Climate Benefit
Many of the companies promising 'net zero' emissions to protect the climate are relying on vast swaths of forests and what are known as carbon offsets to meet that goal.
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Researchers hoping to give the American chestnut tree a leg up on climate change
The goal of this "assisted migration" experiment is to see if humans could not only help the American chestnut tree deal with climate change but also help restore it.
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"Dirty" cows are destroying the Amazon rainforest
The beef industry is flattening the Amazon, even when companies tell you it’s not.
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Give legal rights to animals, trees and rivers, say experts
Report for Law Society says framework is essential for future interactions with the environment and biotechnology
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Fighting off the bulldozers in the sacred kwila forests of Papua New Guinea
Villagers are pushing back against logging operations they say are encroaching on designated conservation areas
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Wildfires are getting worse. Can scientists save California’s forests from going up in smoke?
As California struggles with an increase in extreme wildfires, researchers are studying exactly what a healthy or fire-resistant forest looks like.
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