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High oil prices fuel bioenergy push

Concern at vanishing bananas

Why is palm oil replacing tropical rainforests?

Hudson Institute calls Amazon savanna biome a wasteland

Nitrogen emissions could sink plant species in biodiversity hotspots

Greenpeace accuses McDonald’s of destroying the Amazon rainforest

Borneo rainforest protected, oil palm plantation canceled

Organic farming is eco-friendly finds study

Amazon to be logged sustainably says Brazil

Deforestation rates jump in Uganda and Burundi, fall in Rwanda

Number of hungry Africans doubles in a decade

Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland, disappearing finds new report

Tropical deforestation rates continue to climb

Malaysia’s deforestation rate increasing rapidly – 86% jump since 1990s

Tree plantations for carbon sequestration may cause environmental problems

Ancient water supply of Sahara at risk, satellite monitoring helps in water management

Deforestation causes 25% of greenhouse gas emissions

New maps reveal the human footprint on Earth

Governments making progress in fight against illegal logging says FAO

Eco-friendly palm oil coming soon, criteria could result in cleaner biofuels

203 million people malnourished in sub-Saharan Africa

Nigeria has worst deforestation rate, FAO revises figures

Global deforestation rates fall, but area the size of Panama still disppears each year

Logging threatens Mayan ruin, forest in Guatemala

20% of the world’s mangroves lost since 1980

Logging can have low impact on Amazon rainforest says FAO

Pre-Columbian Amazon supported millions of people

Deforestation and erosion starving Malawi

Deforestation does not cause flooding says new study

conservation agriculture holds promise for food production in Africa

Cocaine destroying rainforest parks in Colombia

First megatransect of Madagascar completed

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