News
Russian bears treat graveyards as 'giant refrigerators' (guardian.co.uk)
A shortage of bears' traditional food near the Arctic Circle has forced the animals to eat human corpses, say locals
News from the world of forests
Latest news
Press room
FIRST SERBIAN FORESTRY CONGRES
ON THE OCCASION OF JUBILEE MARKING 90 YEARS OF ITS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND PROFFESIONAL ENGAGEMENT, FORESTRY FACULTY ORGANISES THE INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE FIRST SERBIAN FORESTRY CONGRES under slogan: -FUTURE WITH FORESTS-
Press review
Remember Renewable Energy? (The New York Times)
October 27, 2010 - Global warming, energy independence and good 21st-century jobs are three compelling reasons why Washington must do a lot more to promote renewable energy.
News
The consequences of dry Finnish summer become visible with delay (Nordic Forestry)
(07/10/2010) - Summer 2010 was unusually dry and warm in Southern half of Finland. The effects on vegetation and trees will become visible in thenear future writes the Finish Forest Research Centre.
News
Green Party lobbies against NSW biomass plant (ttjonline.com)
A New South Wales woodchip processor has accused the Green Party of misleading the public about its plans for a biomass power plant in the Australian state.
News
Putin sacks forestry agency chief for laxity in checking fires (zeenews.com)
Moscow: President Vladimir Putin on Friday sacked the chief of Russia's forestry agency, who came under severe criticism for failures to check wildfires in the country which left 50 people dead and left hundreds of thousands of hectares of land ablaze.
News
26,000 visitors at the Danish Forest Day (Nordic Forestry)
The Danish Forest Day on Sunday 9 May 2010 attracted about 26,000 visitors to visit the over 60 different events in private and public forests all over the country.
News
France: New Legislation Promotes Log Mobilization (fordaq.com)
A new law for the modernization of agriculture, adopted in France on July 13th, affects also the forestry sector as it targets to intensify the timber mobilization in small private-owned forests.
News
Paper industry tests genetically altered trees (philly.com)
MITCH STACY TAMPA, Fla. - The commercial paper industry's plans to plant forests of genetically altered eucalyptus trees in seven Southern states has generated more cries from critics worried that such a large introduction of a bioengineered nonnative plant could throw natural ecosystems out of whack.
News
Deforestation Threatens Europeean Forest (redorbit.com)
Deforestation in Eastern Europe’s Puszcza Bialowieska is threatening the area’s flora and fauna, warned Polish environmentalists on Wednesday.
News
Multi-Purpose Poplar Plantations – Targeting at Low Carbon and Wide Economy (IUFRO/ForestPress)
By Shirong LIU, IUFRO Board Member and Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Forestry
Press review
Putin law cripples Russia fire-fighting – opposition (The Star)
2010. august 3. - By Gleb Bryanski MOSCOW (Reuters) - Efforts to fight Russia's devastating forest fires have been crippled by a law passed four years ago at the behest of Vladimir Putin and powerful logging interests, environmentalists and politicians said on Tuesday.
News Death toll from Russian wildfires reaches 48 (RIA Novosti)
MOSCOW, 2010. August 4 - The death toll from wildfires raging across central Russia has now risen to 48, the country's emergencies ministry said on Wednesday.
News
NASA plots first-of-a-kind map of the Earth’s forests (independent.co.)
A first-of-a-kind map plotted by scientists using data from NASA satellites shows the Earth's tallest and shortest forests; it is hoped that the map can be used to predict the spread of forest fires and monitor the effects of deforestation and climate change.
News Felling of infected larches gathers pace (forestry.gov.uk)
Felling of Japanese and hybrid larches in south-west England is running into the “high hundreds” of hectares as the Forestry Commission fights back against tree disease Phytophthora ramorum.
News
Nature vs. Nurture in Forest Recovery (Tierramérica)
By Julio Godoy Amidst criticism and applause from environmentalists and experts, a programme is emerging in Germany to expand the total area covered by forests -- to as much as five percent of national territory. The debate centres on just how much human intervention there should be.
News
U.S. law requires less formaldehyde in wood products (usatoday.com)
President Obama signed a new law this month that limits the amount of formaldehyde, a chemical linked to cancer and respiratory problems, that's allowed in wood products.
