News articles tagged with 'deforestation'
Study shows deforestation causes cooling
— 16 Nov 2011 21:25 | EnvironmentDeforestation, considered by scientists to contribute significantly to global warming, has been shown by a Yale-led team to actually cool the local climate in northern latitudes, according…
Brazilian beef - greater impact on the environment than we realise
— 4 Mar 2011 15:03 | EnvironmentIncreased export of Brazilian beef indirectly leads to deforestation in the Amazon. New research from Chalmers and SIK that was recently published in Environmental Science and Technology…
LSU's Mark Batzer decodes orangutan genome
— 27 Jan 2011 18:44 | BiologyThe word 'orangutan' is derived from a Malay phrase meaning 'man of the forest,' which is a perfectly apt description of these tree-dwelling primates. Genetically the most distant great…
Rainforest conservation needs a new direction to address climate change
— 2 Dec 2010 20:22 | EnvironmentConservation and international aid groups may be on the wrong course to address the havoc wreaked by climate change on tropical rainforests, according to a commentary appearing in the…
Global CO2 emissions back on the rise in 2010
— 22 Nov 2010 10:07 | EnvironmentGlobal carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions - the main contributor to global warming - show no sign of abating and may reach record levels in 2010, according to a study led by the University…
Valuing nature the way to protect it, WWF advises biodiversity summit
— 16 Oct 2010 10:48 | EnvironmentNations now gathering in Nagoya, Japan for the most crucial meeting in a decade of parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) need to not only agree on new targets for…
Brazil's threatened Cerrado gets a protection plan
— 22 Sep 2010 18:15 | EnvironmentThe Brazilian government last week announced a new plan to protect the Cerrado, a massive expanse of biologically diverse savannah that is under huge pressure from encroaching development…
Argentina puts legal muscle behind Atlantic Forest protection
— 18 Sep 2010 09:13 | EnvironmentThe Argentinean province of Misiones has approved a major new land use law for native forests in that area, legally backing a commitment last year to help save the Atlantic Forest and…
'Archeologists of the air' isolate pristine aerosol particles in the Amazon
— 17 Sep 2010 10:00 | EnvironmentEnvironmental engineers who might better be called 'archeologists of the air' have, for the first time, isolated aerosol particles in near pristine pre-industrial conditions…
Carbon mapping breakthrough
— 7 Sep 2010 11:24 | EnvironmentBy integrating satellite mapping, airborne-laser technology, and ground-based plot surveys, scientists from the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, with colleagues…