Science news articles about 'forest destruction'

Demand for land to grow food and fuel crops is set to outstrip supply, leading to forest destruction, a report warns.

... that could help negotiators reach a global agreement on reducing carbon emissions tied to forest destruction and degradation. The report, Moving ahead with REDD: Issues, options and implications, is ...

... -sensing technology to monitor the changes. Roughly 1.4% of the world's tropical humid forests was deforested between 2000 and 2005, and that as of 2005 more than half of the forests contained 50% or ...

The carbon dioxide emissions caused by the destruction of tropical forests have been significantly overestimated, according to a new study. The work could undermine attempts to pay poor countries to ...

... human-orangutan conflicts exist, the biggest by far is forest destruction associated with the burgeoning palm oil ... ,000 square kilometers of peat swamp forest and killed an estimated 15,000 orangutans ...

... ) and the longtime chairman of the IUCN Species Survival Commission's Primate Specialist Group. "Tropical forest destruction has always been the main cause, but now it appears that hunting is just as ...

... ; but these numbers mask a transition from mostly subsistence-driven to mostly corporate-driven forest destruction, say Butler and Laurance. According to the authors, a global financial market and a ...

... black shell. Researchers have found that these tiny creatures--responsible for rampant and widespread forest destruction--carry on their backs battling species of fungi, plus a powerful antibiotic ...

... palm cultivation is a significant driver of tropical forest destruction across Southeast Asia. It could easily ... requires landowners to retain 80 percent forest on lands in the Amazon. The new law would ...

Oil palm cultivation drives forest destruction across Southeast Asia. Proposed change in Brazil's legislation, new infrastructure and the influence of foreign agro- ...

... at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has established a strong correlation between the extent of forest destruction and the incidence of the Amazon's most dangerous malaria vector, the mosquito ...