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Gov't wants to change course of forest experiments
DURHAM, N.C. - For more than a decade, the federal government has spent millions of dollars pumping elevated levels of carbon dioxide into small groups of trees to test how forests will respond to global warming in the next 50 years.
Nations:U.S. Source:(AP)
2008-11-11
Greenpeace welcomes move to save Indonesia's forests
Environment group Greenpeace on Friday welcomed Unilever's backing of a moratorium on palm oil deforestation in Indonesia, saying the move will help save forests in the sprawling archipelago.
Nations:Indonesia
2008-05-02
Rain forests fall at 'alarming' rate
In the gloomy shade deep in Africa's rain forest, the noontime silence was pierced by the whine of a far-off chain saw. It was the sound of destruction, echoed from wood to wood, continent to continent, in the tropical belt that circles the globe.
Nations:Nigeria Indonesia U.K. Zambia Tanzania Brazil
2008-02-02
World mulls paying for forest protection
For years Irwandi Yusuf fought for the independence of Aceh province. But now he's at the forefront of another struggle: trying to save his homeland's forests by selling the carbon they contain.
Nations:Indonesia Australia
2007-12-05
Forests experience resurgence in fungus
Coastal state forests are experiencing a resurgence in Swiss needle cast disease, a fungus that kills the evergreen needles on Douglas fir trees by interrupting the process of photosynthesis.
Nations:U.S.
2007-07-26
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Ecosystem
