Posts Tagged ‘deforestation’
Strict ‘safe zones’ protect Brazilian rainforest
U. MICHIGAN (US) — Designating strictly protected areas is more effective at reducing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest than creating zones that allow for controlled removal of natural resources, experts say. Continue…
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 10:02 - 1 Comment
Earth & Environment - Dec 27, 2012 17:03 - 1 Comment
Amazon’s diversity loss shows up in the soil
MICHIGAN STATE (US) — Researchers worry that a loss of genetic variation in microbial communities in the Amazon’s converted agricultural land could negatively affect the entire ecosystem. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Oct 12, 2012 8:37 - 2 Comments
Tons of carbon emitted as palm oil demand grows
STANFORD / YALE (US) — The growth of oil palm plantations in Borneo is becoming a globally significant source of carbon dioxide emissions, experts warn. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Sep 10, 2012 11:24 - 1 Comment
Will loss of Amazon forests reduce rain?
U. LEEDS (UK) — The destruction of tropical rainforests could reduce rain across the Amazon basin in the dry season by as much as 21 percent by 2050, experts report. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Feb 20, 2012 15:55 - 1 Comment
Habitat loss threatens proboscis monkeys
CARDIFF (UK) — The destruction of riparian forests in the name of development may cause a significant decline in the proboscis monkey populations throughout Borneo, conservationists report. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Jan 23, 2012 11:52 - 1 Comment
Amazon basin shows signs of stress
UC SANTA BARBARA (US) — Human land-use activity has begun to change the regional water and energy cycles of parts of the Amazon basin. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Nov 23, 2011 12:40 - 0 Comments
Deforestation’s effects? Location, location
UC DAVIS (US) — The impact of deforestation on global warming varies with latitude, a finding that calls for revised climate-monitoring strategies, a new study shows. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Apr 22, 2011 16:52 - 7 Comments
Gold rush stripping Peruvian Amazon
DUKE (US) — Deforestation in parts of the Peruvian Amazon has increased six-fold in recent years, as small-scale miners, enticed by record gold prices, blast and clear the lowland rainforest. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Feb 7, 2011 15:04 - 1 Comment
Cocaine ravaging rainforest diversity
STONY BROOK (US) — Cultivating coca bushes—the source of cocaine—is accelerating the destruction of Colombian rainforests and further threatening the region’s plant and animal diversity. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Dec 1, 2010 10:55 - 1 Comment
Reforestation efforts a zero sum game?
STANFORD (US) — Forest restoration efforts in developing countries have been largely offset by the population’s growing demand for timber and agricultural products harvested elsewhere. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Aug 6, 2010 10:07 - 0 Comments
Growing exploitation of East Africa forests
U. LEEDS (UK)—Waves of deforestation like ripples in a pond have advanced 120 kilometers across East Africa in the past 14 years, according to new research. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Apr 19, 2010 11:33 - 0 Comments
Changes in Earth’s critical zone
U. PENN (US)—Rising high above the pristine northeast coastline of Puerto Rico, the lush Luquillo Mountains are a natural laboratory for environmentalists and climate scientists. A national forest since the 1930s, large sections of the mountains look much the same today as they would have to European settlers 500 years ago. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Oct 23, 2009 15:33 - 2 Comments
‘Fixable’ error undercuts climate laws
PRINCETON (US)—A group of scientists has issued a report identifying a critical—but correctable—accounting error affecting climate legislation that could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging deforestation. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Sep 22, 2009 11:21 - 2 Comments
In the tropics, outbreak and changing landscape
PENN STATE (US)—An international team of researchers is in Ghana as part of a five-year effort to investigate how changes in the environment affect a deforming tropical disease called Buruli ulcer. (more…)
