Seeds, agroforestry, container gardening and climate change

25 Feb, 2010 11:11 pm Offering an opportunity to grow food crops in millions of family gardens and to grow fruit trees wherever we can plant them,...

Sacks gardening in urban and rural areas

25 Feb, 2010 12:22 pm In every developing country people are suffering from the high food prices. More than billion people are hungry every day...

UK: using woodlands to cut emissions

25 Jan, 2010 04:21 pm An independent assessment commissioned by the UK Forestry Commission has proposed one way forward: a million new hectares devoted to woodland,...

Ecosystem Shift Accelerating From Changing Climate New Research Says

31 Dec, 2009 10:39 am Research published last week in the journal Nature estimates the "velocity of climate change," a measurement of how quickly rising temperatures force ecosystems...

Carbon Particles a Factor in Climate Change?

2 Dec, 2009 08:15 am Black carbon particles from burning oil-based fuels and biomass, particularly in developing countries, are not only a health-hazard but may also contribute...

"Biofuels would be actually worse than conventional gasoline"

1 Dec, 2009 10:27 am According to a new study titled "Indirect Emissions from Biofuels: How Important, published online in Science on October 22,...

Agroforestry & Sustainable Agriculture: Vast Potential to Lower Emissions, Store Carbon

6 Aug, 2009 05:34 pm Researchers working on a joint World Agroforestry Centre-United Nations Environment Programme project suggest that integrating agroforestry in farming...

Tropical forests worth more standing

8 Jun, 2009 01:57 pm A paper just published online in Conservation Letters by Venter and colleagues entitled Carbon payments as a safeguard for threatened tropical mammals...

Canada's biofuels promise

27 Oct, 2008 11:17 am An article giving an overview of Canada's bioenergy potential has been published on the Renewable Energy World.com website. The author, Douglas Bradley...

Carbon Forest Protection Payments: Who Gets the Check?

16 Jul, 2008 03:15 pm I have long protected my forests, now where is my money? The Rights and Resources Initiative provides some interesting cautionary advice in new reports...

Nitrogen Pollution Boost Plant Growth

7 Mar, 2008 09:36 am Overview from Laurens Rademakers on Biopact.com*: A study by UC Irvine ecologists finds that excess nitrogen in tropical forests boosts plant growth,...

Where Ecological Footprints Fall: Poor Nations Fare Badly

18 Feb, 2008 01:05 pm In the past 50 years, human society has rapidly transformed the environment at a dizzying pace, and poor nations have been made to bear a disproportionate...

Question about Long-Term Tropical Forest Decline

22 Jan, 2008 10:16 am Despite widespread concern about tropical forest loss, plenty of local evidence of deforestation and frequent estimates of global deforestation rates,...

Brazil's Atlantic Forest Under Threat

17 Oct, 2007 10:59 am Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo travels to the Mata Atlantica, which is as rich in biodiversity as the more famous Amazon and in danger of disappearing under...

Spatial Patterns of Tropical Tree Species Retain Little Signature of Species Interactions

8 Oct, 2007 04:30 pm A persistent challenge in ecology is to explain the high species diversity of tropical forests. One approach to facing this challenge is to analyze the...

Biofuels or Forests?

23 Aug, 2007 11:37 am Carbon-free transport fuels present some of the most difficult problems in adapting to a low carbon economy and, while there are solutions like hydrogen...

Biodiversity Erodes Fast in Amazonian Forest Fragments

6 Dec, 2006 11:11 am Amazonian rainforests contain some of the most biologically-rich ecosystems on the planet and are being cleared and fragmented at truly alarming rates...