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News A new species of tree that is not thought to grow anywhere else in the world has been found on an island off the west coast of Scotland. Two specimens of the newly-named Catacol whitebeam (Sorbus pseudomeincichii) were discovered by researchers on the Isle of Arran.
ZURICH - Swiss troops are on standby to help clear up a trail of destruction in northern Switzerland after flash floods inundated villages and drowned three people on Saturday. An elderly woman died in the village of Eriswil, in Switzerland's picturesque Emmental region, when her home was engulfed and a couple were also swept to their deaths in the nearby hamlet of Huttwill after a river burst its banks.
News By DOUGLAS BIRCH Chernobyl becomes wildlife haven, intriguing biologists Scientists are confounded by wildlife returning to the site of the world's worst nuclear spill
News David Cameron By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Timber dealers and furniture makers who possess illegally logged wood could face prosecution under Conservative plans to help protect rain-forests from destruction. David Cameron, the Tory leader, said yesterday that creating a market value, through the Kyoto agreement, for keeping rainforests rather than cutting them down was also part of the solution to climate change.
News Summit Declaration (7 June 2007) G8 AGENDA FOR GLOBAL GROWTH AND STABILITY Reducing Emissions by Curbing Deforestation
Gordon Hamilton and Scott Simpson VANCOUVER – At a pilot plant located on an isolated corner of the University of B.C. campus, researchers are converting trees killed by the mountain pine beetle into high-grade ethanol, a green alternative to gasoline. Four hundred kilometers away, north of Kamloops, waste bark fed into a high-tech burner comes out as synthetic natural gas for heating water and drying veneer at a plywood mill.
News There is a lot of mature forest in Norway. However the problem is that a great deal of these forests is situated in steep terrain where there are no roads. Thus building roads and/or logging cables is necessary. That is the conclusion of a recent report made by the Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute.
News Join us for the 50th Anniversary Sopron-UBC Alumni Celebration! This year marks the 50th anniversary of the ‘adoption’ of over 200 students and faculty from the Sopron School of Forestry by the University of BC when they were forced to flee Hungary during the Soviet invasion.
The fourth conference of the Forest-Based Sector Technology Platform, FTP in Hannover examined the development perspectives of the forest-based sector. The conclusion was that sector offers good opportunities to evolve into the lead market on European level.
News A devastating mudflow in the world-renowned Geyser Valley on the Kamchatka Peninsula has virtually obliterated the natural wonder, forcing the emergency evacuation of visitors and national park personnel, a spokesman for the local emergencies ministry said Monday.
Heads of European state forestry organisations are visiting Scotland this week to attend the 8th Conference of European State Forestry Organisations. It is the first time Scotland has hosted the conference which will include a meeting of the EUSTAFOR Executive (European State Forestry Association).
News By Adhityani Arga JAKARTA - Indonesia is among the world's top three greenhouse gas emitters because of deforestation, peatland degradation and forest fires, a report sponsored by the World Bank and Britain's development arm said.
More storm felled timber than expected still remains in the forest after the storms in Southern Sweden. Furthermore, several areas with storm felled timber are small and widely spread, which makes processing even more difficult. This is the conclusion of a helicopter inventory made by the Swedish Forest Agency.
News The melting of the planet's ice due to climate change will be the central theme of World Environment Day, celebrated annually on June 5 and this year hosted by the Arctic town of Tromsoe in Norway. Melting ice offers some of the clearest evidence of global warming, and this year's choice of host city was no coincidence, with the picturesque Norwegian town nestled in the Arctic, a region which is heating up twice as fast as the rest of the planet and where the effects are already visible.
News Growing coniferous trees produce fine particles, or aerosols to atmosphere. These reflect sunlight back to space and thus prevent the climate change. The production of fine particles by coniferous trees – as all vegetation – is being observed in the SMEAR (Station for Measuring Forest Ecosystem – Atmosphere Relations) research programme, led by the University of Helsinki.
MOSCOW - Russian scientists believe that global warming can be slowed down by releasing aerosols into the lower stratosphere, a top scientist said Wednesday. The director of the Global Climate and Ecology Institute, Yury Izrael, told a news conference that if a sulfur-based aerosol were sprayed into the atmosphere at a height of 10-14 kilometers (six to 10 miles), the sulfur particles would reflect the sun's rays.
5-6 June 2007, Warsaw, POLAND http://www.mcpfe.org/documents/meetings/2007/elm1 PRELIMINARY Agenda Opening of the meeting Adoption of the Agenda Information on the progress towards the 5th Ministerial Conference MCPFE and other international commitments
News Story by Ben Harding MADRID - Spain has ditched plans to build a 300-km motorway across the country's sun-baked plains because it would have threatened the Iberian lynx, one of the world's most endangered animals. The road linking the ancient capital of Toledo with the southern city of Cordoba would have cut straight through several protected areas, including the nocturnal cat's last viable refuge in the Sierra Morena mountains.
