Trees and forests

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• India’s largest dam given clearance but still faces flood of opposition

  22 Oct 2014: Janaki Lenin: The 3000MW Dibang dam, rejected twice as it would submerge vast tracts of biologically rich forests, is to get environmental clearance – but huge local opposition could stall the project

• Grey for danger, red for hope

  22 Oct 2014: Country diary: Wenlock Edge, Shropshire: Red is love and luck in this landscape, where leaf colours fall together to become brown

• Brazil must target smallholders to curb rising deforestation

  20 Oct 2014: While the largest landowners have cut their contribution to deforestation by two-thirds, that of smallholders has increased

• Amazon deforestation picking up pace, satellite data reveals

  19 Oct 2014: Data indicates 190% rise in land clearance in August and September compared with same period last year

• If you plant different trees in the forest, is it still the same forest?

  19 Oct 2014: Nature Conservancy works to help Minnesota’s North Woods, but other environmentalists worry it will change the forest’s very nature

• China tests outright logging ban in state forests

  17 Oct 2014: Chinadialogue: China has halted commercial logging by state firms in forests in Heilongjiang, a move experts see as a significant step to curb over-exploitation of timber

• Activists use GPS to track illegal loggers in Brazil's Amazon rainforest

  15 Oct 2014: Hi-tech undercover operation used GPS tracking on timber trucks for the first time, as well as satellite and aerial images to reveal extent of illegal logging in Brazilian Amazon

• Illegal loggers remain hidden in Peru’s forest but timber finds global buyers

  14 Oct 2014: State exercises little control over remote Amazon region blighted by poverty and illiteracy, and organised crime fills the vacuum

• Signs of autumn: share your photos and videos

  7 Oct 2014: Leaves are starting to turn in the northern hemisphere and we’d like to see how spectacular the colours are where you are. Share your photos and videos via GuardianWitness
  

• Nobel laureates call for a revolutionary shift in how humans use resources

  7 Oct 2014: Eleven holders of prestigious prize say excessive consumption threatening planet, and humans need to live more sustainably

• World Bank chief steps in over evictions of Kenya’s indigenous people

  6 Oct 2014: Jim Yong Kim reaches out to President Uhuru Kenyatta to resolve dispute over Sengwer community in Embobut forest

• UN biodiversity report highlights failure to meet conservation targets

  6 Oct 2014: Global Biodiversity Outlook 4 paints a damning picture of governments’ efforts to meet a set of targets agreed in 2010

• Global biodiversity targets won't be met by 2020, scientists say

  3 Oct 2014: World leaders failing in their pledge to stop wildlife decline, save habitats and create marine reserves
  

• Forests are emerging out from the shadow of fossil fuels in climate debate

  2 Oct 2014: Andrew Simms: Letting people living in forests become nature’s guardian is bringing both development and saving ecosystems

• Counting trees to save the woods: using big data to map deforestation

  Guardian Professional, 2 Oct 2014: Global Forest Watch uses open data to monitor changes in the Earth’s forests. Nigel Sizer, Loretta Cheung and share the lessons they’ve learnt from the project
  

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