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Conservation group Greenpeace warned that the environmental impact of the Fukushima nuclear crisis five years ago on nearby forests is just beginning to be seen.

• 04 марта 2016, 15:26

The forest fires blanketing Southeast Asia in choking haze are on track to become among the worst on record, NASA has warned.

• 02 октября 2015, 15:53

Unused land around Astana will serve as the tree planting grounds.

• 28 августа 2014, 19:48

A forest fire was raging atop a Philippine mountain, threatening endangered plants and animals in an area also considered by some local sects as a holy place.

• 21 марта 2014, 13:10

With a grimace on his sun-bronzed face, Borneo tribal chieftain Lenjau Tusau glares down a dirt road that vanishes into a rainforest mist, on alert for what he views as a mortal enemy.

• 01 декабря 2013, 16:14

In a desolate area of central Indonesia where lush rainforest once stood, illegal miners on the frontline of a modern-day gold rush tear up the earth in the hunt for the precious metal.

• 20 октября 2013, 19:29

Some of the tiniest frogs on Earth have no middle ears or eardrums but can hear by using their mouths.

• 03 сентября 2013, 18:35

Firefighters on Thursday tamed a wildfire that ravaged 480 hectares (1,180 acres) of land and drove 200 people from their homes on the Spanish holiday island of Majorca.

• 23 августа 2013, 18:22

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is on the rise sharply, sparking alarm over the future of the world's biggest rainforest.

• 21 августа 2013, 12:40

Deforestation has soared in the Brazilian Amazon since a new forestry code was passed last year at the urging of the agribusiness lobby.

• 19 июля 2013, 16:10

It was a brutal end to a long-term problem. Faced with the dilemma of trying to save a protected forest, which had become home to thousands of people, the Ivory Coast government turned to force.

• 12 июля 2013, 17:39

Forest fires raged Wednesday across the western US state of Colorado, destroying dozens of houses and forcing the evacuation of thousands of residents.

• 13 июня 2013, 18:02

Indonesia has extended a logging ban aimed at protecting rainforest despite fierce industry pressure.

• 15 мая 2013, 16:22

The Indonesian government has said it aims to approve within a month a plan that would free up vast swathes of protected virgin rainforest on Sumatra island for commercial exploitation.

• 19 апреля 2013, 12:39

Australia Friday rejected a bid for blanket heritage listing of Tasmania's Tarkine rainforest, angering environmentalists who said it would allow mining and could threaten the Tasmanian devil.

• 08 февраля 2013, 14:32

Kazakhstan Interior Minister announced details of the mass murder in Ile-Alatau national park near Almaty.

• 19 ноября 2012, 17:56

On a trek across this Atlantic rainforest reserve in southern Brazil, biologist Michel Garey recalled how on his birthday in 2007 he chanced upon what turned out to be a new species of tiny, three-fingered frogs.

• 02 ноября 2012, 13:30

Kazakhstan’s Agriculture Ministry has calculated the damage caused by fires in 9 months of 2012.

• 24 сентября 2012, 18:28

A lone pine tree that stood as a symbol of hope in Japan, after surviving the huge tsunami that swept away a forest of 70,000, was being cut down Wednesday in a bid to preserve it.

• 12 сентября 2012, 14:51

Kazakhstan Minister of Agriculture Assylzhan Mamytbekov does not link the fire in Ile-Alatau National Park with the fallen trees left after last year’s hurricane.

• 24 августа 2012, 15:48