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Forest-destroying avalanches on the rise due to clear-cut logging

Scientists with the UBC Avalanche Research Group have been studying the impact of clear-cut logging on avalanche terrain in British Columbia. Understanding avalanche behavior and its destructive potential is an important ...

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created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Northwest Forest Plan has unintended benefit - carbon sequestration

The Northwest Forest Plan enacted in 1993 was designed to conserve old-growth forests and protect species such as the northern spotted owl, but researchers conclude in a new study that it had another powerful ...

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created Jul 23, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 31

Reducing greenhouse gases may not be enough to slow climate change

Georgia Tech City and Regional Planning Professor Brian Stone publishes a paper in the December edition of Environmental Science and Technology that suggests policymakers need to address the influence of global deforestation ...

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created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (11) | comments 6

Ground zero in timber wars shows signs of peace

(AP) -- On a steep slope of the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, a crew of young men with chain saws and hardhats worked their way through an old neglected clearcut, cutting brush and young trees and ...

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created Jun 21, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2




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New study reports rise in community land rights in tropical forests; most laws unenforced

New research released today by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) shows that hundreds of millions of forest peoples in tropical nations have, in the last 20 years, quietly gained unprecedented legal rights to the land ...

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Country cousins: Climate connections and land urbanization dynamics

(Phys.org) -- What’s in a name? Quite a bit in climate science, where the term teleconnection refers not to digital communications, but rather to a recurring and persistent large-scale pattern of pre ...

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created May 28, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast feature

Looking out for the Myanmar snub-nosed monkey

A new genetic study has shed light on how the newly discovered Myanmar snub-nosed monkey evolved.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

SKA super telescope to be built in Australia, South Africa (Update 2)

A long-running joust to host a radio telescope that would give mankind its farthest peek into the Universe ended on Friday with a Solomon-like judgement to split the site between Australia and South Africa.

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created May 25, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Top 10 new species list draws attention to diverse biosphere

The International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University and a committee of scientists from around the world announced their picks for the top 10 new species described in 2011. This ...

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created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Refining fire behavior modeling

Research by USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station biometrician Bernie Parresol takes center stage in a special issue of the journal Forest Ecology and Management due out in June. Parresol is lead author of two of ...

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created May 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Saola still a mystery 20 years after its spectacular debut

Two decades after the sensational discovery of a new ungulate species called the saola, this rare animal remains as mysterious and elusive as ever. WWF, the Saola Working Group (SWG) of the IUCN Species Survival ...

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created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Race to save the devil Down Under

It's been hundreds of years since the Tasmanian devil last lived on the Australian mainland but, in the misty hills of Barrington Tops, a pioneering group is being bred for survival.

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created May 17, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Jungle cats caught on camera in Belize

A camera trap survey, set up by scientists from Ya’axché Conservation Trust, has caught pictures of Central America’s two big cats: the jaguar and the puma (known locally as the red tiger).

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created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gold rush sweeps Latin America, Amazon suffers

A new gold rush is sweeping through Latin America with devastating consequences, ravaging tropical forests and dumping toxic chemicals as illegal miners fight against big international projects.

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created May 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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