News tagged with forestland
Uganda forests rapidly disappearing: study
Jun 20, 2009 |
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Uganda has lost nearly a third of its forest cover since 1990 due to expanding farmlands, a rapidly growing human population and increased urbanisation, a government report said on Friday.
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Researcher: Wild California just a memory
Mar 01, 2008 |
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A California researcher said nearly all of California's 31 million acres of forest have been changed in some way by humans.
Saving the wild orchids of Borneo
Jul 17, 2008 |
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Borneo (Kalimantan) is the third largest island in the world. It is rich with a variety of indigenous orchid species that grow in the forests. Borneo's rain forests are also home to some extremely rare species of orchids, ...
State may have brief window to slow loss of working forests to development
Mar 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Today's slumping economy and housing market may reduce, temporarily, the insistent economic forces on Washington's private forestland owners to give up the cycle of harvesting and replanting ...
Tighter review of owl habitat rejected
Nov 10, 2005 |
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Washington state's Forest Practices Board has rejected a request to more closely study timber cutting in the spotted owl's remaining habitat.
Upper Midwest forests are losing diversity, complexity
Oct 16, 2007 |
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Forests in the nation's Upper Midwest have changed greatly since the time of the early settlers. And more changes may be coming.
New World post-pandemic reforestation helped start Little Ice Age, say Stanford scientists
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 18, 2008 |
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The power of viruses is well documented in human history. Swarms of little viral Davids have repeatedly laid low the great Goliaths of human civilization, most famously in the devastating pandemics that swept ...
Tropical insects 'go the distance' to inform rainforest conservation
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Aug 09, 2007 |
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The long-held belief that plant-eating insects in tropical forests are picky eaters that stay “close to home” – dining only on locale-specific vegetation – is being challenged by new research findings that ...
Bioenergy potential of reviving abandoned agricultural land
Jun 25, 2008 |
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Across the globe, hundreds of millions of acres of once-productive agricultural land lie abandoned, according to a new report from researchers at Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution for Science. If this land ...
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