Two leading ecologists say a rapid proliferation of roads across the planet is causing irreparable damage to nature, but properly planned roads could actually help the environment.

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 20, 2013 3.4 / 5 (7) 8 |

Experts are urging policy makers to preserve mangroves and their essential services to nature and humanity alike, saying their replacement with shrimp farms and other forms of development is a bad economic ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Nov 14, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Over the last 30 years, great ape numbers have plummeted across Africa, due to increasing rates of commercial hunting, habitat destruction, and disease. A continent-wide, data-based overview of their habitats ...

Biology - Ecology

Sep 26, 2012 not rated yet 0

Surging demand for palm oil in India for cooking and everyday grocery items is driving tropical forest destruction in Indonesia, Greenpeace said Tuesday.

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 19, 2012 3.7 / 5 (3) 9

The majority of countries participating in a major global effort to reduce greenhouse emissions caused by forest destruction cite agriculture as the main cause of deforestation, but very few provide details on how they would ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jun 08, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0

As mountain pine beetles march across the forests of western North America, these insects may kill millions of pine trees during a single outbreak. A rise in overall temperatures over the past several years has increased ...

Biology - Ecology

May 31, 2011 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research shows that international plans to pay developing countries to reduce tropical forest destruction may increase rural poverty because critical income streams to rural people have ...

Space & Earth - Environment

May 31, 2011 not rated yet 1 |

A sharp increase in forest destruction in March and April in the Amazon has led Brazil to announce the creation of an emergency task force to fight against deforestation.

Space & Earth - Environment

May 19, 2011 5 / 5 (5) 5

The most thorough assessment to date of the global fight against illegal logging, released by Chatham House today, finds that a decade of international effort to tackle the problem is having a dramatic and beneficial effect ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Jul 15, 2010 4.8 / 5 (5) 1

(AP) -- The question is a potential deal-killer: If nations ever agree to slash greenhouse gas emissions, how will the world know if they live up to their pledges?

Space & Earth - Environment

Dec 17, 2009 3 / 5 (2) 0

While it is clear that massive destruction of tropical rainforests poses a serious threat to the incredibly rich biodiversity found on Earth, other hazards are not so explicit. An international group of prominent scientists ...

Biology - Ecology

Nov 16, 2009 1 / 5 (1) 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In one of the most field-intensive efforts to explore the connection between malaria and tropical deforestation, a team led by Jonathan Patz, a specialist in the link between environment and health at the ...

Medicine & Health - Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Jun 26, 2009 not rated yet 0

Oil palm cultivation is a significant driver of tropical forest destruction across Southeast Asia. It could easily become a threat to the Amazon rainforest because of a proposed change in Brazil's legislation, ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 24, 2009 1 / 5 (2) 1