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First reported 4 mins ago - Updated 4 mins ago - 1 reports

21.05 - Shedding light on forests - CAMBRIDGE

By using advanced imaging technology, scientists are able to map on an unprecedentedly large scale - and in remarkably accurate detail - what is happening to these precious resources worldwide. Lidar involves the firing of laser pulses at very high frequency ... [Published MyScience - 4 mins ago]

Entities: Carbon, Hyperspectral Imagery, Quercus Suber, Laser, Backscatter

First reported 19 mins ago - Updated 19 mins ago - 1 reports

All forests to become bhang free, says KFS

Kenya Forest Service has declared war on drug barons cultivating bhang in Mt Kenya Forest.KFS chairman Peter Kirigua said that a massive aerial surveillance has been launched in all forests, especially the Mt Kenya Forest and declared forests a no go ... [Published The Star (Kenya) - 19 mins ago]

Entities: Kenya, Drugs, Surveillance, War On Drugs

First reported 41 mins ago - Updated 41 mins ago - 1 reports

Forum for the Future

Bridging the communications gap – how renewable energy companies can help farmers and landowners invest in renewables

130 British farmers and landowners were surveyed by the CleanTech division of PR agency CCgroup to investigate what renewables information resonates and why. The report ‘How to talk so farmers and landowners listen’ outlines how renewable energy marketers ... [Published Farming Futures - 41 mins ago]

Entities: Landholder, Renewable Energy, Forum for the Future, Nottingham Trent University, Soil Association

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Fire restrictions start Wednesday in most forests

Most of Arizona's national forests will impose fire restrictions for the Memorial Day weekend as the state enters the long, dry period before monsoon moisture arrives in early July and the pot… ... [Published Arizona Daily Star - 1 hour ago]

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Trees: Safeguarding the few that remain

Many people think that Malta has a severe lack of tree cover because it is simply a barren island. This is actually not the case. Malta was once like Cyprus, to give an example. It was covered with trees mostly pine, before the arrival of the Knights ... [Published Malta Independent Daily - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Malta, World Environment Day, Afforestation, Eucalyptus

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Involving local councils in safeguarding the environment

Sustainable Development Minister Leo Brincat told the Association of Local Councils at his first meeting with it that, as promised, the government wants to identify with the councils more projects where families could enjoy recreation.The governments ... [Published Malta Independent Daily - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Environment, World Environment Day, Waste Management

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Rice acreage stands at 2.4 lakh hectares so far this year

Rice has been planted in 2.4 lakh hectares so far this year as against 2.53 lakh hectares in the year-ago period. The sown area this week is less by 5.14% as compared to rice planting at this time last year due to late sowing in states of Assam and O ... [Published Indian-Commodity - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Sugarcane, Cotton, Declination

First reported 13 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 2 reports

A Plague of Deforestation Sweeps Across Southeast Asia

The fate of the forests around Khe Sanh exemplifies what is happening today in Vietnam and the greater Mekong region, which also includes Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar. Although some large blocks of forest remain intact, the pace of deforestation ... [Published Sensors & Systems - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Deforestation, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated 18 hours ago - 3 reports

Indonesia extends moratorium

The Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, announced on May 15 2013 an extension of the moratorium on new logging and plantation concessions, in 65 million hectares of forest and peatlands for another two years, an Indonesian news agency reports. ... [Published Fordaq - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Indonesia, Norway, Palm oil, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Deforestation

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 5 reports

Less than 1 per cent of Malaysia's forests illegally logged

The problem of illegal logging in the peninsula is under control. -NST IPOH - The problem of illegal logging in the peninsula is under control, said Forestry Department director-general (peninsula) Professor Datuk Dr Abd Rahman Abd Rahim.Abd Rahman said ... [Published Asiaone - May 20 2013]

Entities: Abd Rahman, G. Palanivel, Malaysia, Illegal

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 2 reports

Zambia: Forest Conservation Mammoth Exercise

IN July 1995, the Ministry of Water Affairs and Forestry in South Africa organised the first-ever forest conference which was held in Pretoria.Participants contributed great ideas leading to the preparation of a draft white paper, a penultimate step towards ... [Published AllAfrica.com - May 19 2013]

Entities: Zambia, Forest Conservation, MAMMOTH, South Africa

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 2 reports

Biomass Use Is Fuelling Rapid Deforestation

ACCORDING to Bariki Kaale who is Energy and Environmental Specialist based in Dar es Salaam, biomass fuels accounts for over 94 per cent of the total energy used for cooking with no affordable alternative energy sources in the foreseeable future.Kaale ... [Published Zecco - May 19 2013]

Entities: Biomass, Tanzania, Deforestation, Ministry of Energy and Minerals, Liquefied Petroleum Gas

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"Forests will always keep many secrets, but they are so important to us that we need to understand better how they function, how they are changing, and how we can manage that change. Lidar is becoming an important part of the modern toolkit for building that better understanding." This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Licence. If you use this content on your site please link back to this page

21.05 - Shedding light on forests - CAMBRIDGE [Published MyScience - 4 mins ago]

"KFS officers will be sacked immediately if they are found to have taken no action against bhang plantations found in their areas of jurisdiction" he said

All forests to become bhang free, says KFS [Published The Star (Kenya) - 19 mins ago]

Niren Jain, coordinator, Kudremukh Wildlife Foundation, said: "The single most important threat to the Western Ghats is 'forest fragmentation' due to haphazard development and the presence of numerous settlements deep inside the forests. We hope the new forest minister takes this urgent issue on a priority by consolidating the last remaining large chunks of forests and satisfying the demands of thousands of forest dwellers demands for compensation to shift outside the forests."

Greens have high hopes from Rai [Published The Hindu - 3 hours ago]

Hocking said plantations could be a great asset. "Many types of trees had enabled farmers to supplement their stock income, as stock prices were about half those of the year before." - $ Fairfax NZ News

Trees boost ailing incomes [Published stuff.co.nz - 6 hours ago]

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21.05 - Shedding light on forests - CAMBRIDGE [Published MyScience - 4 mins ago]
All forests to become bhang free, says KFS [Published The Star (Kenya) - 19 mins ago]
Bridging the communications gap – how renewable... [Published Farming Futures - 41 mins ago]
Fire restrictions start Wednesday in most forests [Published Arizona Daily Star - 1 hour ago]
Trees: Safeguarding the few that remain [Published Malta Independent Daily - 1 hour ago]
Involving local councils in safeguarding the en... [Published Malta Independent Daily - 2 hours ago]
Rice acreage stands at 2.4 lakh hectares so far... [Published Indian-Commodity - 2 hours ago]
Nothing special about STPF for Similipal Tiger ... [Published New Indian Express - 3 hours ago]
Greens have high hopes from Rai [Published The Hindu - 3 hours ago]
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Maritime union, landowners assured [Published Papua New Guinea National - 5 hours ago]
Pine forests disappear, Da Lat gets ragged [Published Bao Moi.com - 6 hours ago]
Trees boost ailing incomes [Published stuff.co.nz - 6 hours ago]
Eco-friendly: Market-powered climate responses [Published UW Daily Online - 6 hours ago]
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California REDD: A False Solution [Published Friends of the Earth - 9 hours ago]
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Two jumbos run into live wire, electrocuted [Published Economic Times - 12 hours ago]
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Organism : Genes :: Forest : Trees [Published Scientific Blogging - 12 hours ago]
Nanaiah raises concern over global warming [Published Deccan Herald - 13 hours ago]
Lessons in conservation [Published Deccan Herald - 13 hours ago]
A Plague of Deforestation Sweeps Across Southea... [Published Sensors & Systems - 13 hours ago]

Blogs

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Amazon deforestation rate up 88 percent over la... [Published Treehugger - 12 hours ago] Science / Natural SciencesCC BY 2.0 Threat to DemocracyFor the last several years, deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon have been in steady decline, reaching its lowest point on record just last year. But despite this progress the latest figures ...
Organism : Genes :: Forest : Trees [Published Scientific Blogging - 12 hours ago] Decades of focus on genes may have led the scientific community away from a balanced exploration of the organisms that those genes define - whether they be plants, animals or microorganisms - and more toward gene-focused directions: inward, toward the ...
Standing Tall for Landowner Rights [Published OpEdNews - May 19 2013] Landowners are losing their rights as fracking and Big Energy, in collusion with government, is seizing private property to advance the interests not of the public but of private business. ...
Rainforest plays critical role in hydropower ge... [Published Energy and energy security - May 17 2013] Deforestation in the Amazon region could significantly reduce the amount of electricity produced from hydropower , says a new study. Scientists say the rainforest is critical in generating the streams and rivers that ultimately turn turbines. If ...
Why we are happy, but not celebrating the Indon... [Published Greenpeace news - May 17 2013] Image . . I have been fielding calls non-stop over the last couple of days, because as you may have noticed, there has been widespread coverage lately (see here , here and here ) on the Indonesian government’s extension of its forest moratorium. ...

Audio/Video

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World Economic Forum Latin America 2013 - Defor... [Published World Economic Forum - YouTube - May 02 2013]
Are Euro banks out of the woods? [Published CNNMoney.com - Video - Apr 30 2013]
How deforestation changes lives [Published CNN.com - Video - Apr 22 2013]
Can you create a fail-safe environment? [Published CNN.com - Video - Apr 17 2013]
Solving Environmental Threats [Published WSJ.com Video - Digits - Mar 21 2013]

Press Releases

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Environmental ‘blueprints’ help set natural res... [Published Premier of Victoria - May 15 2013]
New Strategy puts a roof over the heads of Melb... [Published Premier of Victoria - May 13 2013]
Brazilian Monitoring and Law Enforcement Preven... [Published PR Newswire: Environment - May 08 2013]
Woods Awarded $1 Million Grant [Published PR Newswire: Policy & Public Interest - May 06 2013]
Viridian Energy’s Amazon Preservation Project G... [Published Business Wire - May 02 2013]