Agricultural expansion and climate variability have become important agents of disturbance in the Amazon basin
The Amazon basin in transition
Eric A.…
NASA has released a series of new satellite data visualizations that show tens of millions of fires detected worldwide from space…
ScienceDaily (Aug. 9, 2011) — The world’s established forests remove 2.4 billion tonnes of carbon per year from the atmosphere —…
Josep G. Canadell and Michael R. Raupach
Forests currently absorb billions of tons of CO2 globally…
Rescuers and firefighters extinguished six wildfires over the past 24 hours and are trying to put out another six in…
The Global Fire Information Management System (GFIMS) integrates remote sensing and GIS technologies to deliver MODIS hotspot/fire locations and burned…
The extent of projected changes in winter chill in many major growing regions of fruits and nuts indicates that growers…
Much attention has been paid to how global warming is affecting the world’s polar regions and glaciers. But a leading…
SEI has unveiled a new version of weADAPT, an online ‘open space’ on climate adaptation issues for practitioners, researchers and…
Russia’s boreal forest — the largest continuous expanse of forest in the world, found in the country’s cold northern regions…
For the first 25 years after an oil-palm plantation is established in a peat-swamp forest, about 60 tonnes of carbon…
Over the last several years, the rate of forest loss in the Brazilian Amazon had been in steady decline, but…
The Amazon region is experiencing the third extreme drought in a dozen years — and it may turn out to…
A global analysis of extinction risk for the world’s plants, conducted by Kew together with the Natural History Museum, London…
Deforestation rates in tropical countries dropped significantly during the first decade of the 21st century relative to the 1990s, reveals…
Groundbreaking new research by a former banker, Pavan Sukhdev, to place a price tag on the worldwide network of environmental…
The study, based on analysis satellite images collected by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and led by…
Heads of state and government, ministers and other representatives of some 50 countries concluded an agreement on reducing greenhouse gas…
Toronto/Montreal, Canada – 05/18/2010 – Today 20 member companies of the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) and nine leading…
Emissions from land use change, mainly tropical forest loss, contribute an estimated 17.4% of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (IPCC…
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The Global Economy and Development program at Brookings today released a new report — “Climate Crisis, Credit Crisis:…
Once, on both sides of the Atlantic, fish such as salmon, eels, and, shad were abundant and played an important…
More than one in six mangrove species worldwide are in danger of extinction due to coastal development and other factors,…
To mark the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, The Nature Conservancy is publishing The Atlas of Global Conservation, which presents…
ScienceDaily (Mar. 30, 2010) — A new study involving scientists from 13 different organizations, universities and research institutions states that…
Forests play a crucial role in Earth’s carbon cycle by absorbing carbon from the atmosphere and storing it in biomass.…
25 March 2010, Rome – World deforestation, mainly the conversion of tropical forests to agricultural land, has decreased over the…
Across western North America, huge tracts of forest are dying off at an extraordinary rate, mostly because of outbreaks of…
WASHINGTON, DC, March 16, 2010 – A new study involving scientists from 13 different organizations, universities and research institutions states…
Petroleum companies have leased 41 percent of the Peruvian Amazon for oil and gas drilling and could soon hold drilling…
In December 2008, EU leaders reached agreement on a new Renewable Energy Directive, which requires each member state to satisfy…
EU renewable energy legislation states that 10% of all road transport fuel in the EU will need to be “renewable”…
At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world’s energy future, describing the need for “miracles” to avoid planetary…
The development of alternative fuel will greatly benefit the U.S., say scientists in an Energy Foundation-funded report published February 16…
The Forest Footprint Disclosure Project (FFD Project) is a new UK government-supported initiative, created to help investors identify how an…
Speed is not a word typically associated with trees; they can take centuries to grow. However, a new study to…
A team of scientists working in a threatened rainforest in Ecuador have discovered a species of snail sucking snake, 30…
Indonesia says reforestation and cuts to deforestation will enable it to meet its Copenhagen emissions reduction commitment solely from the…
You are an integral part of nature; your fate is tightly linked with biodiversity, the huge variety of other animals…
Case Studies on Moving Towards a Low Carbon Economy United Nations Environment Programme
Supporting countries in meeting the climate change challenge
In…
Nobel Laureates and senior government ministers joined activists and academics to call for action on forests in Copenhagen
Nearly 1500 people…
As the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen approaches its conclusion, negotiations are focusing on the role of forests in mitigating…
Negotiators have all but completed a sweeping deal that would compensate countries for preserving forests, and in some cases, other…
SEI, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) launch A Copenhagen Prognosis:…
Copenhagen, December 15, 2009: The launch of the Planetary Skin Institute in
Copenhagen today represents a breakthrough research and development approach…
Tropical forest destruction accounts for some 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions. But quantifying these emissions has not been easy,…
The international community is mobilizing to reduce the nearly 20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions attributable to deforestation by…
A journalist from the UK’s Independent newspaper has won the Foreign Press Association’s prestigious ‘Journalist of the Year’ award for…
Forests play an important dual role: Firstly, forest ecosystems are susceptible and vulnerable to climate change, and there may be…
Hundreds of Kenyan youth, from schoolchildren to university students, have planted almost 70,000 trees in the last month as part…
