http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A new paper just published in Global Change Biology examines the potential of a REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) mechanism to provoke ecological damage and/or promote ecological cobenefits. Such analysis is key as negotiations and discussions continue between now and early December when the United Nation's Framework Convention on Climate Change holds its 15th Conference of the Parties, where an agreement on REDD may emerge. Scientists and research staff from the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC), the Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM), and the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) authored the paper. http://www.physorg.com/news177606171.html Space & Earth Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:30:02 EST news177606171 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 argue in the November 17th issue of the journal Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, that the most promising new strategy to protect our planet may not live up to its full potential. The group calls for global implementation of careful and sensible protective policies. http://www.physorg.com/news177599405.html Biology Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:20:01 EST news177599405 (AP) -- Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon dropped nearly 46 percent from August 2008 to July 2009 - the biggest annual decline in two decades, the government said Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news177271650.html Space & Earth Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:30:01 EST news177271650 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 and urbanization on climate change, in addition to greenhouse gas emissions. http://www.physorg.com/news177139558.html Space & Earth Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:00:01 EST news177139558 Logged rainforests can support as much plant, animal and insect life as virgin forest within 15 years if properly managed, research at the University of Leeds has found. http://www.physorg.com/news175258536.html Space & Earth Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:56:36 EST news175258536 An endangered Chinese tree has flowered in a Belgian arboretum, an event seldom seen anywhere in Europe, the garden's curator said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news169301563.html Biology Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:40:04 EST news169301563 As the world's environment ministers, government officials, diplomats and campaigners prepare to attend the COP15 conference in Copenhagen in December 2009 to unite in the battle against climate change in one of the most complicated political deals the world has ever seen, the increasingly complex territory of climate negotiations is being revealed in an article published today, 5 August, 2009, in IOP Publishing's Environmental Research Letters. http://www.physorg.com/news168679508.html Space & Earth Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:25:36 EST news168679508 As many as 4,550 of the more than 50,000 plant species in the Amazon will likely disappear because of land-use changes and habitat loss within the next 40 years, according to a new study by two Wake Forest University researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news166376723.html Biology Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:45:55 EST news166376723 Farmers across the tropics might raze forests to plant biofuel crops, according to new research by Holly Gibbs, a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment. http://www.physorg.com/news153853175.html Space & Earth Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:00:22 EST news153853175 Wealthy nations willing to collectively spend about $1 billion annually could prevent the emission of roughly half a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide per year for the next 25 years, new research suggests. http://www.physorg.com/news136048985.html Space & Earth Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:23:05 EST news136048985