The United Nations has called on more Asian leaders to agree to a plan to end deforestation by 2020 to slow down the destruction of plants and animals, a top official said on Friday. About 80 percent of the world’s known biodiversity could be found in forests, where about 1.6 billion people also depend for […]
A three-day meeting of Directors-General for Forestry began Tuesday in Slovenia. The main topics of the meeting concern forests and climate change, and the question of what role forests should play in adapting to and mitigating climate change. The Directors-General will also discuss the initiative for concluding a legally binding agreement on forests in Europe […]
Douala is an industrial zone which needs trees to reduce emitted gases.«Ouh! The sun is scorching”. “It is so hot”. People have been complaining lately in Douala. These statements are made everyday especially during the afternoons when the sun is at its peak. One thing is certain, climatic conditions in Douala have changed and there […]
Greenpeace urged industrialised nations Tuesday to set up an international fund to fight deforestation but warned it would require at least 30 billion dollars a year to work.The plan would see rich nations give poorer ones money to preserve their natural forests instead of felling trees to create farmland, Greenpeace’s Roman Czebiniac told an 11-day […]
Fears for the future of the world’s largest tropical rainforest grew yesterday, after the sudden resignation of Brazil’s environment minister, Marina Silva.Environmentalists saw Silva, a 50-year-old native of the Brazilian Amazon, as a key ally in the fight against the destruction of the country’s rainforest, 20% of which they believe has been destroyed.
In her resignation […]
A campaign to plant trees worldwide set a goal on Tuesday of seven billion by late 2009, just over one for each person on the planet, to help protect the environment and slow climate change.The U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP), an organizer of the tree planting drive begun in late 2006 with an initial goal of […]
More than two billion trees were planted around the world as part of the UN’s campaign to combat climate change, the world body’s environment programme (UNEP) said on Tuesday in a statement.The Nairobi-based agency said the tree planting campaign, inspired by Kenyan Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai, will help mitigate the effects of pollution and […]
Global warming will threaten the survival of koalas by making the eucalyptus leaves on which they feed toxic, scientists warned on Wednesday.Australia’s most endearing marsupial is already under threat from a severe drought and loss of habitat as housing encroaches on woodland.
But higher temperatures and increased carbon dioxide could shut down their food supply, leaving […]
Purdue University researchers have proposed a new option for incorporating deforestation into the international climate change treaty.Kevin Gurney, lead author of the proposal and an associate director of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center, will provide testimony on Tuesday (April 22) about the proposed deforestation and climate change policy to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations […]
Brazil’s drought in 2005, the worst-ever hitting the Amazon, was caused by global warming instead of the El Nino weather phenomenon as previously thought, the country’s National Space Research Institute (INPE) announced Sunday.
“The idea that a drought comes with every El Nino is simply not correct,” said INPE researcher Carlos Nobre who studied the temperature […]
