Rainforest News

Posted November 11, 2009:

• Central Africa's Tropical Congo Basin Was Arid, Treeless In Late Jurassic

Posted November 10, 2009:

• New Fossil Plant Discovery Links Patagonia To New Guinea In A Warmer Past

Posted November 6, 2009:

• Can Biodiversity Persist In The Face Of Climate Change?
• DNA 'Barcode' For Tropical Trees

Posted November 4, 2009:

• Timber Harvest Impacts Amphibians Differently During Life Stages

Posted November 3, 2009:

• Wolves, Moose And Biodiversity: An Unexpected Connection

Posted November 2, 2009:

• Data Point To Some Improvements In China's Environment

Posted October 29, 2009:

• Trees Facilitate Wildfires As A Way To Protect Their Habitat

Posted October 28, 2009:

• What Are Coral Reef Services Worth? $130,000 To $1.2 Million Per Hectare, Per Year

Posted October 27, 2009:

• Endemic Birds Thrive On Timor-Leste's 'Lost World' Mountain

Posted October 20, 2009:

• Carbon-offsetting And Conservation Can Both Be Winners In Rainforest
• Global Warming May Spur Increased Growth In Pacific Northwest Forests

Posted October 13, 2009:

• First Neotropical Rainforest Was Home Of The Titanoboa -- World's Biggest Snake
• Orangutans Unique In Movement Through Tree Tops

Posted October 8, 2009:

• Nitrogen Deposition Limits Climate Change Impacts On Carbon Sequestration

Posted October 6, 2009:

• Panama Butterfly Migrations Linked To El Niño, Climate Change

Posted October 2, 2009:

• Killer Bees May Increase Food Supplies For Native Bees

Posted October 1, 2009:

• Tennessee Foresters Helping To Return Chestnuts To American Forests

Posted September 28, 2009:

• Global Increase In Atmospheric Methane Likely Caused By Unusual Arctic Warmth, Tropical Wetness

Posted September 24, 2009:

• Rhododendron Expansion May Increase The Chance Of Landslides On Southern Appalachian Slopes

Posted September 20, 2009:

• Uncertain Future Predicted For Forests

Posted September 17, 2009:

• Exotic Timber Plantations Found To Use More Than Twice The Water Of Native Forests

Posted September 16, 2009:

• Monitoring Illegal Wildlife Trade: DNA 'Barcodes' For 25 Hunted Wildlife Species Sequenced

Posted September 9, 2009:

• New Species Of Giant Rat Discovered In Crater Of Volcano

Posted September 2, 2009:

• Potential Of World's Ecosystems To Combat Climate Change

Posted August 25, 2009:

• World's Last Great Forest Under Threat: New Study
• First Measure Of Africa's Coastal Forests: Swampy Mangrove Destruction Threatens Shrimp Farming

Posted August 20, 2009:

• Specialists Are Better At Avoiding Predators

Posted July 30, 2009:

• Human Impact on Critically Endangered Waterbird Beneficial

Posted July 29, 2009:

• Extinction Crisis Looms In Oceania

Posted July 17, 2009:

• NASA Two-for-One: Carlos And Dolores In One Satellite Image

Posted July 14, 2009:

• Fire Ant Outcompetes Other Species, Even In Its Native Habitat

Posted July 12, 2009:

• Forest Fire Prevention Efforts Could Lessen Carbon Sequestration, Add To Greenhouse Warming

Posted July 7, 2009:

• Mangrove-dependent Animals Globally Threatened
• Ferns Took To The Trees And Thrived During Cretaceous Period

Posted July 3, 2009:

• Pacific Northwest Forests Could Store More Carbon, Help Address Greenhouse Issues

Posted June 30, 2009:

• Amazon Conservation Policy Working In Brazil, Study Finds

Posted June 23, 2009:

• Isolated Forest Patches Lose Species, Diversity

Posted June 16, 2009:

• Deforestation Causes 'Boom-and-bust' Development In The Amazon

Posted June 15, 2009:

• Reviving American Chestnut Trees May Mitigate Climate Change

Posted June 13, 2009:

• African Bird Species Could Struggle To Relocate To Survive Global Warming

Posted June 12, 2009:

• Global Warming Increasing The Dispersal Of Flora In Northern Forests
• Caribou, Reindeer Numbers Show Dramatic Decline
• Australia's Climate: Drought And Flooding In Annual Rings Of Tropical Trees
• Rainforest Rehabilitation In Every Sense

Posted June 7, 2009:

• Nature Parks Can Save Species As Climate Changes

Posted June 5, 2009:

• Carbon Payments Help Protect Threatened Tropical Mammals

Posted June 1, 2009:

• Positive Feedback Hint Between Tropical Cyclones And Global Warming

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