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Study: Millions of miles of planned roads shouldn't be built

Science News // 7 years ago

Study: Millions of miles of planned roads shouldn't be built

New research suggests millions of miles of planned roads shouldn't be built, as many projects will sacrifice environmental resources for limited benefits.

Study: Half of all Amazonian tree species threatened by deforestation

Science News // 9 years ago

Study: Half of all Amazonian tree species threatened by deforestation

According to research, half of all tree species in the rain forests of the Amazon are on the decline, threatened by deforestation.

Science News // 1 decade ago

Gabon logs threaten endangered turtles

A U.S. study finds endangered sea turtle nesting is being threatened by logging practices in the west central African nation of Gabon.

Energy News // 1 decade ago

Analysis: Biofuels law attracts opposition

A major energy bill signed last month by President Bush could decrease domestic oil consumption by increasing biofuels, but opposition to the new law has come hard and fast from an unusual source: environmentalists.

Science News // 1 decade ago

Developing nations help tropical forests

A rainforest biologist from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama says developing nations may help stop tropical forest destruction.

Science News // 2 decades ago

Amazon highways ravaging rainforests

U.S. and Brazilian scientists have found that the rate of forest destruction has accelerated significantly in Brazil's Amazonia region since 1990.

Top News // 2 decades ago

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Science News // 2 decades ago

Stories of modern science ... from UPI

Rainforest ecosystems may be much more sensitive to disruption than imagined, a cheap source of hydrogren may be available from wastewater, and other news from the frontiers of scientific research.

Science News // 2 decades ago

Stories of Modern Science ... from UPI

Stories of Modern Science ... from UPI

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It's really sad to see what the logs are doing to the turtles
Gabon logs threaten endangered turtles Mar 19, 2008

There's no way you can criss-cross the basin with all these giant transportation and energy projects and not have a tremendous impact on the Amazon
Stories of Modern Science ... from UPI Jan 15, 2002