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Scientists with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) say in their latest report to Congress that the incidence of acid rain events throughout the country has been in sharp decline over the past few years. The document, while optimistic, highlights the need for even more action.
The most important efforts to cu... |
20 January 2012
03:17 GMT |
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At times when the global financial crisis is still far from being a thing of the past, funding military operations is a real challenge. Apart from generating material losses and destruction, the Taliban have also managed to disrupt the balance of forests from Pakistan.
At the beginning, the Taliban relied on so-call... |
17 January 2012
07:45 GMT |
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Millions of hectares of forests are destroyed annually by companies using wood to manufacture their products. Some of the most eco-conscious designers and companies have thought about other sustainable solutions, safeguarding woodlands and increasing their profit at the same time. Meanwhile, experts have reached ... |
11 January 2012
09:34 GMT |
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These days, almost every eco-friendly campaign benefits from the support of a worldwide known celebrity. In this case, actor Abhay Deol has recently decided to join Greenpeace officials on a hot air balloon trip in India, part of their 'Forests no Coal' initiative.
The contribution of a public figure, rep... |
11 January 2012
06:42 GMT |
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Scientists launch a highly controversial theory, stating that deforestation is not entirely bad for the environment. Despite the fact that, for decades, experts affirmed that clearing up woodlands leads to desertification, turning thousands of acres into sterile useless land, it appears that they revised their initia... |
18 November 2011
06:45 GMT |
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It's no secret that global warming has a great influence upon the environment. First, scientists found out that increased temperatures are responsible for the fact that small creatures and plants are shrinking. Now, researchers discovered that climate change might imply another effect, making the species of tree... |
31 October 2011
11:46 GMT |
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About 251.4 million years ago, nearly all lifeforms on the planet died, during the largest mass extinction event ever to take place on Earth. Researchers are now saying that fungi played an important role in destroying the forests that were left unscathed by the original catastrophes.
The Permian–Triassic (P... |
6 August 2011
05:47 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a new research paper published in the latest issue of the top journal Science, it would appear that the world's forests are capable of absorbing about one third all carbon dioxide emissions we put into the atmosphere ever year. That amount is equivalent to about 8.8 billion tonnes... |
15 July 2011
08:37 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) may dedicate some of the orbital capabilites aboard its satellites for Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification schemes aimed at promoting responsible forestry.This issue was discussed recently at the general assembly of the FSC, which was held in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. The end... |
13 July 2011
08:33 GMT |
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New investigations conducted on rural populations that base their livelihoods on exploiting forests for generations have revealed that it is possible to still maintain biodiversity at these locations, but only under certain specific conditions. These results, published in the March 25 issue of the top journal Science... |
25 March 2011
06:58 GMT |
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A collaboration of American researchers has recently created a new type of carbon-mapping technology, that they say can be used to map the reserves of the chemical in Hawaii's forests. The group details its achievement in the latest online issue of the scientific journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environ... |
15 March 2011
11:04 GMT |
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The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has just released a new report on the state of forests in the country, and the picture the document paints is not at all flattering for southwestern forests, experts say. At the current rate, they are faced with a bleak future. Experts being the investigation have determined... |
14 December 2010
07:02 GMT |
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According to experts, we may soon become able to detect the presence of things such as forests on other planets outside our solar system. All that is needed for this to happen is for the next generation of astronomical observatories to be installed. This may take as little as a couple of decades. When these advanced ... |
11 December 2010
07:05 GMT |
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While you would expect forests to have a cooling effect on the environment during heatwaves, new research suggests that this is not the case when the extreme atmospheric events set in. When temperatures start rising at the start of an ensuing heatwave, woodlands are actually a lot slower to cool the air than grasslan... |
29 October 2010
10:22 GMT |
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This Monday, October 11, the European Parliament overwhelmingly approved a critically-important set of laws called the EU Regulation on Illegal Logging, which essentially declares war to illegal logging.Previously, the Council of Ministers had approved the same document in its draft form, and the laws managed to pass... |
15 October 2010
11:00 GMT |
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The Scottish pine tree is carrying the traces of its continental ancestors, from the last Ice Age period, found out an international team of scientists from the Center for Ecology & Hydrology, the Polish Academy of Sciences, the University of Edinburgh and the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute.They studied the gen... |
9 September 2010
10:04 GMT |
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New evidence would appear to suggest that forests can at times support the development of heatwaves, but also show that the trees ultimately promote cooling, if the heatwaves spans a long period of time.At first, when temperatures soar, trees reduce the amount of evaporation they usually produce. This leads to a rise... |
6 September 2010
09:29 GMT |
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A team of researchers at the Purdue University has determined in a new study that the best methods of reducing future water runoff and flooding risks is to increase the land surface covered in forests, and also to control the growth of urban environments.The research is based on a computer model and a simulation of h... |
19 August 2010
09:54 GMT |
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Scientists from the U.S Geological Survey and NASA, have established the most complete data on the distribution and decline of mangrove forests across the world, thanks to new satellite imagery.Mangrove forests include tress, palms, and shrubs that grow at tropical and subtropical tidal areas across the equator, and ... |
18 August 2010
08:31 GMT |
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In a new scientific investigation, scientists in Australia were able to determine that the best way to capture vast amounts of the dangerous greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is to turn to reforestation. They say that this is more efficient than installing the already-controversial softwood monoculture plantations that e... |
30 July 2010
10:24 GMT |
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Nature with its forests and other green environments can reduce stress, anger and aggressiveness, can improve moods and increase happiness. People feel better after spending time in a forest and this is also because of the positive effects on the body's immune system by multiplying the number and the activity of... |
24 July 2010
05:53 GMT |
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In a set of recent investigations, whose goal was to assess the way Europe looked like during the Late Miocene epoch, experts were able to uncover details pertaining to the apes that once lived on the Old Continent. It would appear that creatures such as the ones that today can only be found in rain forests were fair... |
7 June 2010
08:51 GMT |
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A new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has determined that deforestation rates at a global scale have been diminishing for the past ten years. This event is not due to more people becoming aware of the importance of forests, but to the fact that China has been planting enormous amounts of new ... |
25 March 2010
11:00 GMT |
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Scientists are currently seriously considering using prescribed burns to manage at least some portions of the forests in the United States. They say that this method, which relies on burning certain swaths of land on purpose, has the ability to control the spreading of wildfires, and to therefore reduce the carbon fo... |
18 March 2010
04:51 GMT |
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Scientists announce the possible discovery of a new gigantic impact crater in the central parts of Africa, more precisely in DR Congo. The massive deforestation currently taking place in this country is uncovering what looks like a massive ring in the ground, researchers report. Thus far, observing the feature from s... |
10 March 2010
16:01 GMT |
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According to a new scientific investigation, the amount of fog surrounding redwoods in California, on the West Coast of the United States, has been declining steadily for the past century. The new data, which were obtained from the US National Climate Data Center, paint a bleak future for these trees. They are very b... |
16 February 2010
05:03 GMT |
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In a rare investigation on how ecosystems respond to the growing influence of global warming and climate change, researchers at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center have determined that trees in the Eastern United States are now growing faster than they did in the past 225 years. The find is unique in the se... |
2 February 2010
08:39 GMT |
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In a new scientific study, experts have determined that the action of the feedback mechanism connecting global temperature rise and carbon dioxide production from human activities has been exaggerated in previous studies. The report has found that, indeed, as the climate warms, oceans and forests become proportionate... |
28 January 2010
05:40 GMT |
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Trees have been known for a long time to be one of the most important carbon dioxide “sponges” in the world, next to oceans and exposed volcanic rock. Climate scientists have been basing their studies and climate models on the faith that the world's forests can absorb a certain amount of CO2 each yea... |
8 January 2010
04:03 GMT |
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A scientific paper, published in the respected journal Nature Geoscience, shows that our previous estimates of how the Earth's atmosphere would respond to mounting carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations were highly conservative. In fact, the team behind the new investigation says, it may be that the atmosphere is 3... |
7 December 2009
19:01 GMT |
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A British researcher was just minding his own businesses in the jungle, surveying monkeys, when he accidentally disturbed a snake that was eating its meal. Upon inspecting the catch, the expert discovered a chameleon unlike any other species he knew. He therefore went ahead and compared the specimen to two others his... |
23 November 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Mammoths and mastodons were the largest land-based animals to have walked the surface of the Earth some 13,000 years ago. In spite of dominating the landscape, their ultimate faith has remained somewhat of a mystery to researchers, who still cannot find any reasons why these huge, adapted mammals might have disappear... |
20 November 2009
16:31 GMT |
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In a new series of studies, experts have determined that planting new trees, and creating forests, in areas that previously had none, can have negative, long-term side-effects on the water flows of the region. This type of research is extremely important for policymakers, especially considering that the fight against... |
9 November 2009
02:38 GMT |
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“Glow-in-the-dark,” or luminescent, mushrooms are nothing new. They can be seen in forests around the world, illuminating their surroundings with a faint glow. But, in an important, new expedition, experts have recently identified seven new species of aglow mushrooms. This could help botanists better unde... |
6 October 2009
02:52 GMT |
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As hinted at in books, folklore tales and scary movies, people seem to actually have the tendency of walking in circles when they are lost, or when they do not have any landmarks nearby to guide them on the correct path. The new study was conducted by a team of experts from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cyb... |
21 August 2009
04:00 GMT |
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Naturalists and biologists were amazed at the discovery of one of the most dangerous, invasive and subversive species of fungus ever known to man, which displays a remarkable activity of ensuring its survival. It can take control of carpenter ants' brains, and turns them into zombies, which are then manipulating... |
12 August 2009
10:43 GMT |
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According to a new investigation, it would appear that the Mayans were in the habit of practicing forest conservation, archaeological pieces of evidence point out. They also conserved the land and water on their territories, and historians now believe that the time when they abandoned these practices spelled nothing ... |
23 July 2009
14:01 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, published in the latest issue of the Geological Journal, the woolly mammoth persisted in the territory that is now the United Kingdom 6,000 years longer than first estimated. The new research, which analyzed several fossils found in Shropshire in 1986, determined that the large be... |
18 June 2009
04:39 GMT |
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A new comprehensive survey of the effects that fires around the globe have on the environment has revealed that the amount of carbon dioxide placed in the atmosphere naturally is about 50 percent that emitted by humans through burning fossil fuels. These finds suggest that the influence of events such as wildfires ha... |
24 April 2009
06:56 GMT |
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Over the next year or so, countless volunteers and scientists across the US will take their research outdoors, as part of a massive campaign of assessing the real influence that global warming and climate change have on the way seasonal plants grow and multiply. These measurements will have an increased significance ... |
5 March 2009
06:00 GMT |
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Under normal conditions, forests around the world are able to absorb approximately 20 percent of all carbon dioxide emitted by humans from burning fossil fuels, such as oil, coal and natural gas. This amounts to a massive 4.8 billion tonnes of CO2 each year, an extremely large quantity that would otherwise be left i... |
19 February 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Experts from the US Forest Service and the Carnegie Institution have developed a new laser system that allows them to use a plan for monitoring changes that might have occurred in tropical rain forests. The changes refer to the influence of outside intrusive plant species, as well as to the effect the spread or reduc... |
26 January 2009
03:19 GMT |
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Due to extensive periods of poor management, Canadian forests have recently crossed a very dangerous line, when they started emitting more carbon dioxide than they stored. The main culprits for this situation are the pine beetle, which is already responsible for decimating tens of thousands of square miles of trees t... |
10 January 2009
03:55 GMT |
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A new report released by Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), a Jakarta-based initiative, urges the leaders of the world to act swiftly for the prevention of global warming, so as to save the world's forests from threats posed by climate change. The study is addressed to the delegates of the 190 n... |
28 November 2008
17:01 GMT |
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Over the past few years, planting trees has been a widely-advocated way of reducing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, and finding ways of stimulating land owners not to cut any more forests down has been an international priority. Now, a carbon trade system may be implemented for forests as well, but, ... |
27 November 2008
06:59 GMT |
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