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Amazon source of 5-year-old river breath

...nkampe says. "They assumed that the return of this forest carbon to the atmosphere must be a slow process th...us studies failed to detect the rapid recycling of forest carbon because they never dated the invisible greenhouse gas as it is literally exhaled by the river...

Scientists discover odd-ball rodent

...eems to prefer areas of limestone outcroppings and forest cover, and it appears to be a nocturnal vegetarian. It also gives birth to one offspring at a time, rather than a litter. Dr. Timmins, who also discovered a new species of striped rabbit from the same region in 1999, warns that habitat protection an...

Amazon symposium to address large-scale conservation

... are threatening the world's largest tropical rain forest complex, and the initiatives underway that create the potential for large-scale conservation. ...

U.N. mulls the protection of Earth's forests

...n much stalemate and disagreement on the issues of forest protection and management," said Auer, an associat... convention is the best way to promote sustainable forest management. There are many environmental conventions in force that do not deliver what they promise....

Ebola virus: from wildlife to dogs

...ted carcasses of chimpanzees, gorillas and certain forest antelopes. Results have come from work conducted over the past several years by IRD scientists and their partners (1) to shed light on the virus's propagation paths. The discovery of Ebola virus antibodies in several species of non-human primate sugg...

Primates on the brink

...ersity hotspots that has lost most of its original forest cover. More than half its lemurs, none found anywhere else in the world, are threatened with extinction. Without immediate steps to protect these unique creatures and their habitat, we will lose more of our planet's natural heritage forever." The Wo...

Nature provides inspiration for important new adhesive

...g for additional licensees." A few years ago, the forest products industry in the U.S. and Canada was spending more than $2 billion a year on wood adhesives, and the wood composites industry is one of the largest manufacturing sectors in the United States. "Based on the successful commercial application o...

A New Species of Monkey is Discovered in Tanzania: The First in Africa for More Than 20 Years

...hland Mangabey?(Lophocebus kipunji), a long-haired forest primate first discovered on the flanks of the 10,0...at the population of the highland mangabey in this forest is very small and limited in distribution. Ehardt observes that, “With the addition of another threa...

Finding hidden invaders in a Hawaiian rain forest

...ading plants that are changing the ecology of rain forest near the Kilauea Volcano in the Hawaii Volcanoes N...tages. The aircraft imagery also showed us how the forest canopy chemistry is changing as a result of the invader." The study is published in the March 7-11, ...

Scientists journey to southern Africa to unravel the secret world of elephant communication

...d to conduct an aerial census because of the dense forest canopy." Human-generated noise is another concern for conservationists. Researchers have found that rotating helicopter blades generate low-pitched noises, and possibly seismic vibrations, that can disrupt and frighten wild herds located far away. D...

Shift of weather patterns necessitates rethinking of reforestation methods

...ervice survey showed Texas had 12 million acres in forest land, all of it in the East Texas Piney Woods area. Approximately 61 percent of the forest land was owned by non-industrial private forest landowners. Another 32 percent was owned by industry...

No relief for Pacific Northwest drought

...hat the northwestern part of the country will face forest and rangeland fires this year that could be unusua...for fire risk this spring and summer indicate huge forest and rangeland fire outbreaks in northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington, and more isolated b...

Biodiversity hotspots identify conservation priorities

...ed that hotspot ecosystems (most often in tropical forest areas) cover a small total land area yet account f...table example is Southeast Asia's Sundaland, whose forest loss has been driven largely by extensive commercial logging and agricultural projects. On the other...

Camera Traps Catch Eye of the Tiger

...ould have significant implications for species and forest preservation here and around the world. "Sumatran...been able to focus on tiger research thanks to the forest protection established by Indonesia's recent creation of the 212-square-mile Tesso Nilo National Par...

Live fast, die young true for forests too

..., and lead author of the article. "You can view a forest like a bank account," said Stephenson. "As long as...d beneficial to forests may bring about unexpected forest changes. "Most attention so far has been given to things that stress forests, like increased drought...

Surprising findings reported about iron overload

...rogram conducted by Barton and Acton at an Alabama forest products mill detected the disorder in 0.39 percent of all white participants, and 0.53 percent of white men. Acton and Barton said they hope that results of the study will prompt more primary care physicians to consider hemochromatosis and iron ove...

World's largest rainforest drying experiment completes first phase

...e five-month dry season each year. To sort out the forest responses to the "umbrellas" from the normal varia... tree death, leaf production, and other aspects of forest behavior, researchers compared this dry plot of forest with a similar plot, from which rainfall was ...

Falling ants glide back to trunk to avoid dangers of forest floor

...erstory of the forest," he said. Once they hit the forest floor, he added, they're unlikely to find a chemical trail back to the nest, and most likely will be eaten by predators. Yanoviak said that perhaps more important from the perspective of survival, the forests are flooded as much as half the year, so...

South America's vast pantanal wetland may become next everglades, UNU experts warn

...Pantanal is a patchwork of lakes, lagoons, rivers, forest and forest islands. It is dry half the year and a shallow lake the rest, creating a unique habitat for thousand...

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