Elephants promote jumbo trees, boosting the carbon stores in Africa’s forests
Fri 6:02pmPrevious studies have shown that Africa’s tropical forests store more carbon per hectare than Amazonian forests. But how they do so is still a puzzle. It turns out that elephants play an outsized role in the upkeep of healthy forests. New research shows that…Liberian courts rubber-stamp export shipment of illegal logs
Fri 3:09pmLast week, a timber company won a controversial lawsuit against Liberia’s Forestry Development Authority when a court ordered the agency to allow a shipment of illegal logs to be exported overseas. Liberian environmental groups say the ruling is emblematic…The dark side of light: Coastal urban lighting threatens marine life, study shows
Fri 2:31pmNight is falling on Tokyo. The moon, shining in a berry-blue sky, has come to govern the darkness. But it has not come alone: a new study reveals that artificial light in coastal megacities is outshining the moon and exposing marine ecosystems to threats still…With climate change, Nepal’s leopards get a bigger range — and more problems
Fri 1:58pmKATHMANDU — Climate change is likely to expand the habitat of leopards in the Nepal’s high mountain regions, potentially increasing conflict with humans and competition with snow leopards, a new study suggests. As the planet heats up, the mean winter…U.S. mature forests are critical carbon repositories, but at risk: Study
Fri 1:37pmLarge trees in older forests that hold significant amounts of carbon located within U.S. national forests are vulnerable to logging, according to a new study published Jan. 6 in the journal Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. Forest protection efforts…In wake of ‘natural’ disasters, not reducing biodiversity loss is a big missed opportunity…
Thu 11:21pmFloods, heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires – a changing climate is bringing with it ever more frequent and destructive so-called “natural” disasters, often impacting the most vulnerable areas and communities of the world. Amidst these rising impacts, the…Indigenous Kawésqar take on salmon farms in Chile’s southernmost fjords
Thu 10:16pmPUERTO NATALES/PUNTA ARENAS, Chile — Pristine waters, partially covered in sea ice, reflect the early morning light while a flock of flamingos basks in the warmth of the sun near the coast. A few meters away, on the mainland, stands a huge white shed with a…Sri Lanka seeks lasting solution as human-elephant conflict takes record toll
Thu 5:11pmCOLOMBO — Each day, as the sun set over the horizon, Thettuwage Tennakoon and his wife would carefully climb up into their treehouse in the middle of their rice field. This elevated position was ideal for keeping watch over the crop — and for staying safe…Illegal road found in Yanomami land accelerates destruction
Thu 2:24pmOn Dec. 5, a flight over the Yanomami Indigenous Territory in Brazil’s northern Amazon showed the Greenpeace and Brazilian NGO Socio-Environmental Institute (ISA) members on board an illegal road, already 150 kilometers (93 miles) long, and four hydraulic…Indigenous communities in Latin America decry the Mennonites’ expanding land occupation
Thu 11:30am“They bought new land and they are cutting wood where our ancestors were,” says a source in Meta, Colombia. “Us Mbya live from the forest, but here there’s barely anything left,” says an Indigenous local from Paraguay. “They cut thousands of…Banned but abundant, gillnets pose main threat to Bangladesh’s river dolphins
Thu 8:49amThe indiscriminate use of gillnets by fishers in Bangladesh has become a major threat to the two freshwater dolphin species found there: the Ganga River dolphin (Platanista gangetica) and the Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris). Both species, listed as…To restore large carnivore populations, make people wealthier, study finds
Wed 8:06pmThe decline of big carnivore populations like lions, bears and lynx is most closely associated with rapid economic growth, according to a study published this week in Nature Communications. The study looked at 50 species of large carnivores worldwide over the…U.S. refuses calls for immediate protection of North Atlantic right whales
Wed 7:59pmThe U.S. government has denied two petitions to immediately protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales during the species’ calving season, raising concerns that this population of whales will continue to decline without intervention. There are…Re-carbonizing the sea: Scientists to start testing a big ocean carbon idea
Wed 6:52pmImagine showers of little green sand grains drifting through the ocean: collecting on coral reefs, rolling off the backs of whales, sprinkling schools of tuna — and helping to save all those creatures, and humanity, too. At least that’s the idea. These…Logging threats loom over tree kangaroo refuge in Papua New Guinea
Wed 4:30pmThe tree kangaroos inhabiting a forested mountain range in Papua New Guinea have made an unlikely comeback in the past 40 years, but old dangers now jeopardize that rebound. Three species of the Dendrolagus genus — arboreal marsupials about twice the size…Yanomami health disaster prompts outrage as Lula vows to tackle crisis
Wed 3:15pmAt least 570 Indigenous Yanomami infants have died over the past four years from treatable diseases such as diarrhea and malaria, an average of three every week, highlighting the ongoing plight of one of Brazil’s most persecuted peoples. The figures were…Plastic works its way up the food chain to hit fishing cats, study shows
Wed 11:32amDuring a dietary study on fishing cats living near Colombo, Sri Lanka, researchers made an unexpected finding: Some scat samples collected contained plastics. Varying in size from tiny microplastics to larger debris in the form of macroplastics, these findings…Even in recovery, previously logged tropical forests are carbon sources: Study
Wed 11:05amTropical forests play a key role in our efforts to stabilize the global climate. As a readymade means of ameliorating our continued greenhouse gas emissions, tree-clad tropical landscapes provide us with some much-needed hope. But as we relentlessly degrade…The EU banned Russian wood pellet imports; South Korea took them all
Tue 10:27pmLast July, as the Ukraine war raged, the EU barred all Russian woody biomass imports; even as South Korea took in Russia’s supply. Illicit woody biomass may also still be flowing to the EU from Turkey, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.Chile’s denial of Dominga port project is a just energy transition victory and lesson (commentary)
Tue 8:52pmImagine having to choose between having water or a mining project in your backyard. Or between having a job or polluting your community. What would you choose? This dichotomy is the choice that the people of La Higuera in northern Chile were proposed by…
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