<![CDATA[forests news from mongabay.com]]> http://www.mongabay.com en-us Copyright 2006 mongabay.com Sun, 15 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0800 <![CDATA[Rainforest conservation could offset 500m tons of CO2 emissions at $2/ton]]> Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0724-redd.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0724-redd.html <![CDATA[New plan would pay tropical countries for saving forests, regardless of level of threat]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0724-forest_carbon.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0724-forest_carbon.html <![CDATA[14 countries win REDD funding to protect tropical forests]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0724-fcpf.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0724-fcpf.html <![CDATA[Leaf-cutter ants test theories about the Amazon's biodiversity]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0723-hance_biodiversity.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0723-hance_biodiversity.html <![CDATA[Secret power plan would devastate Sarawak's rainforest with 12 new hydropower plants]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0723-sarawak.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0723-sarawak.html <![CDATA[Brazil to send more police into the Amazon to fight illegal logging]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0723-amazon.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0723-amazon.html <![CDATA[How to replant a mangrove forest: local, low-cost initiatives prove most successful]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0723-mangroves_hance.html Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0723-mangroves_hance.html <![CDATA[Biofuels can reduce emissions, but not when grown in place of rainforests]]> Environmental Research Letters. Analyzing the carbon debt for biofuel crops grown in ecosystems around the world, Holly Gibbs and colleagues report that "while expansion of biofuels into productive tropical ecosystems will always lead to net carbon emissions for decades to centuries... [expansion] into degraded or already cultivated land will provide almost immediate carbon savings." The results suggest that under the right conditions, biofuels could be part of the effort to reduce humanity's carbon footprint.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0722-biofuels.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0722-biofuels.html <![CDATA[Mangroves are key to healthy fisheries, finds study]]> Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0721-mangroves.html Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0721-mangroves.html <![CDATA[Moving species may be only way to save them from climate change]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0717-hance_assisted_migration.html Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0717-hance_assisted_migration.html <![CDATA[Forests cover 1/3 of U.S. but are responsible for 2/3 of its water supply]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0716-forests.html Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0716-forests.html <![CDATA[Fruit bats frequent clay-licks in the Amazon rainforest]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0714-hance_bats_atbc.html Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0714-hance_bats_atbc.html <![CDATA[Wal-Mart to ban sales of wood products from threatened rainforests]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0714-wal-mart.html Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0714-wal-mart.html <![CDATA[Birds face higher risk of extinction than conventionally thought]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0714-cagan_interview.html Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0714-cagan_interview.html <![CDATA[Pine beetles attack Canada, boosting GHG emissions]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0710-hance_pine_beetles.html Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0710-hance_pine_beetles.html <![CDATA[Environmentalists protest proposed logging of Malaysian forest reserve]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0710-kedah_logging.html Thu, 10 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0710-kedah_logging.html <![CDATA[Palm oil industry moves into the Amazon rainforest]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0709-amazon_palm_oil.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0709-amazon_palm_oil.html <![CDATA[Carbon payments may not protect biodiversity]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0707-carbon_oregon.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0707-carbon_oregon.html <![CDATA[Australia's largest retailer Woolworths greenwashes rainforest destruction in Indonesia, allege activists]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0708-hance_woolworths.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0708-hance_woolworths.html <![CDATA[Britain urges 'cautious approach' on biofuels]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0707-biofuels.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0707-biofuels.html <![CDATA[Colorful insects help search for anti-cancer drugs]]> Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. The discovery could help speed drug discovery.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0707-stri_drug_discovery.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0707-stri_drug_discovery.html <![CDATA[20% of Amazon timber illegally harvested from protected areas]]> O'Globo.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0707-amazon.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0707-amazon.html <![CDATA[Orangutan populations drop due to logging, expansion for palm oil]]> Oryx.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0705-orangs.html Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0705-orangs.html <![CDATA[Brazil fines 24 ethanol producers for illegal forest clearing]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0701-brazil.html Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0701-brazil.html <![CDATA[Sarawak to continue logging forests for oil palm plantations]]> New Straits Times.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0630-palm_oil_sarawak.html Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0630-palm_oil_sarawak.html <![CDATA[Rainforest destruction becomes industry-driven, concentrated geographically]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0629-deforestation.html Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0629-deforestation.html <![CDATA[Malaysian government says no more forest clearing for oil palm plantations]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0626-palm_oil.html Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0626-palm_oil.html <![CDATA[Tropical biodiversity on "a trajectory toward disaster"]]> Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0626-biodiversity.html Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0626-biodiversity.html <![CDATA[Sarawak to continue logging forests for oil palm plantations]]> New Straits Times.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0630-palm_oil.html Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0630-palm_oil.html <![CDATA[Elephants may explain Mount Kilimanjaro's bamboo enigma]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0624-hance_bamboo.html Wed, 25 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0624-hance_bamboo.html <![CDATA[Britain, Norway commit $210 million towards Congo rainforest conservation]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0624-congo.html Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0624-congo.html <![CDATA[Global warming threatens California's native plants]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0624-california.html Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0624-california.html <![CDATA[Amazon soy moratorium extended; may be expanded to other products]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0623-soy_amazon.html Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0623-soy_amazon.html <![CDATA[EU may mandate certification system for Amazon timber]]> O Estado de Sao Paulo and the International Tropical Timber Organization, the European Union is considering a green-labeling program for certifying the origin of timber imports. The label is said to target widespread illegal logging in the Amazon. Europe about 47 percent of timber produced in the Amazon region.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0618-eu.html Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0618-eu.html <![CDATA[Scientists call for mining ban, new protected areas in Suriname]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0618-suriname_mining.html Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0618-suriname_mining.html <![CDATA[New Google Earth layer offers insight on global deforestation]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0615-google_earth.html Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0615-google_earth.html <![CDATA[Rainforests face array of emerging threats]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0614-laurance.html Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0614-laurance.html <![CDATA[More than 8% of the Brazilian Amazon is illegally owned]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0614-imazon.html Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0614-imazon.html <![CDATA[Geology, climate links make Guiana Shield region particularly sensitive to change]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0614-hammond.html Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0614-hammond.html <![CDATA[Lemurs are key to health of Madagascar's rainforests]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0612-madagascar.html Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0612-madagascar.html <![CDATA[Reforestation a growing, but complicated, initiative]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0612-hance_chazdon.html Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0612-hance_chazdon.html <![CDATA[New discoveries about past forest changes may help predict future ones in a changing climate]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0612-hance_forest_history.html Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0612-hance_forest_history.html <![CDATA[REDD could trigger bias in conservation funding towards carbon-rich ecosystems]]> Science.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0612-forests_redd.html Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0612-forests_redd.html <![CDATA[Forests face governance challenges]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0612-forest_governance.html Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0612-forest_governance.html <![CDATA[Unlocking the potential of forests to limit climate change]]> Science.]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0612-forests_bonan.html Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0612-forests_bonan.html <![CDATA[Forestry will play a critical role in slowing global warming]]> Science. ]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0612-forests_canadell.html Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0612-forests_canadell.html <![CDATA[Brazil levies $279 million fine for illegal Amazon logging]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0611-brazil.html Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0611-brazil.html <![CDATA[Colombia creates rainforest reserve to protect medicinal plants]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0612-colombia.html Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0612-colombia.html <![CDATA[Madagascar signs big carbon deal to fund rainforest conservation]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0611-madagascar.html Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0611-madagascar.html <![CDATA[Kayapo tribe gets trust fund for Amazon protection]]> http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0611-kayapo.html Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:00:00 GMT Mongabay.com http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0611-kayapo.html