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Eco Factor: Wireless sensors powered by metabolic energy of trees.
With the rise in the average temperature, forest fires are becoming an ever-increasing threat to...
made popular Jun 27 2009
AP, Grants Pass
Trees in old growth forests across the West are dying at a small, but increasing rate that scientists conclude is probably caused by longer and hotter summers from a...
made popular Jan 23 2009
AP, Poznan
Negotiators at U.N. climate conference have agreed to give people who live in forests a voice on conserving their lands. That move clears a major obstacle toward...
made popular Dec 10 2008
AP, Poznan
Hopes to reach agreement at a U.N. climate conference in Poland on protecting the world’s forests are fading, prompting environmentalists to appeal for an extra...
made popular Dec 6 2008
AP, San Francisco
A federal magistrate judge ruled Tuesday that a Clinton-era ban against new road construction and development on millions of acres of national forest would apply only...
made popular Dec 3 2008
AP, Lima
U.S. Ambassador Michael McKinley and Peru’s foreign minister have signed an accord forgiving US$25 million of Peru’s foreign debt and directing the money to...
made popular Oct 21 2008
AP, Brussels
EU nations need to take tougher action to curb imports of illegally logged timber to try to save rare forest species and tackle climate change, the bloc’s...
made popular Oct 17 2008
Indonesian authorities and the WWF have come together to save Sumatra. Authorities have finally realized that habitat loss is taking place at an extremely rapid rate....
made popular Oct 11 2008
How does the Lagoon keep its colour, so clear and bright? The Langebaan Lagoon is one of three lagoons worldwide that is nourished by the sea and not by a river. What...
made popular Oct 11 2008
The Amazon is one of the richest areas of the world in animal and plant diversity. There can be more plant species in one hectare of Amazon rainforest than there are in...
made popular Oct 7 2008
We owe our lives to trees. Trees provide far more than furniture and fuel. Everyone finds forests to be beautiful, but not many know how hardworking forests really...
made popular Sep 14 2008
‘Kiderlite’ is a gadget that is intended to demonstrate how incompetent most of us would get with outdoor living and camping by the year 2050 as we get pampered by...
made popular Aug 18 2008
AP, Cheyenne
A federal judge has overturned a Clinton-era ban on road construction in nearly a third of national forests, the latest turn in a long-running dispute over U.S. Forest...
made popular Aug 13 2008
AP, Washington
A group that advocates motorized recreation is asking the Forest Service to withdraw a public service ad featuring Smokey Bear. The group says the ad sends the wrong...
made popular Jul 22 2008
Food and fuel scarcity is rising high day-by-day. There is a vast gap between the demand and supply of these necessary products. We need an urgent balance to check the...
made popular Jul 15 2008
Forests are natures biggest recycle bins, recycling not only nutrients but also essential atmospheric gases. According to a paper published in the journal Science,...
made popular Jun 16 2008
Land to provide food, shelter and the resources for the next generation of life on spaceship Earth is becoming harder and harder to obtain for all life forms engaged in...
made popular May 8 2008
AP, Beijing
China’s unusually strong winter snow storms damaged 10 percent of the country’s forests, leading to huge economic losses and widespread environmental...
made popular Feb 19 2008
Scientists have drilled through two kilometers of ice in southern Greenland and have come out with a startling revelation. They used the DNA taken from ice buried deep...
made popular Jul 6 2007
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