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June 2010

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June 27, 2010

Forestry education is out of fashion

The past few decades have witnessed the increasing importance of forest resources for humankind.

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June 26, 2010

Groundwood Paper Greenhouse Gas Footprint Much Lower Than Freesheet Paper

Uncoated groundwood paper (such as newsprint, are made from mechanically ground wood pulp that contains impurities - i.e., everything that nature puts into the tree) has less than half the carbon footprint of uncoated freesheet paper (which are made from pulp that is "cooked" and chemically treated to leave them free of impurities) with the same purpose, a recent study by Canadian researchers suggests.

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May 25, 2010

ArborGen cleared to field test genetically engineered eucalyptus in US south

Eucalyptus trees with a foreign gene that helps them withstand cold weather could become a new source of wood for pulp, paper, and biofuels in the Southern timber belt, said a report in the New York Times.

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June 22, 2010

Sino-Forest ups stake to 53.7 pct from 19.9 pct Omnicorp Ltd

 * To pay about $53.7 mln for 230 mln shares

* Says deal to help meet growing wood demand in China

* Sino-Forest V-C to become CEO of Omnicorp on completion

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June 2010

Impact of the global forest industry on atmospheric greenhouse gases

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June 2010

Forest externalities - Ecosystem Services - Non-Timber-Products

NEWFOREX meeting deals with the challenges of implementing the valuation of forest externalities

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June 23, 2010

Sustainable forest management for privately-owned U.S. forests

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CE2 Carbon Capital (CE2), one of the largest investors and owners of U.S.

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June 19, 2010

Nepal bans logging for two months

KATHMANDU — Nepal has banned people from cutting down trees for two months after reports of massive deforestation in its lawless southern plains, a government spokesman said Friday.

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Jun, 20 2010

Initiating Moves To Climate-proof Africa

Discouraged by the outcome of the Copenhagen climate summit last December as well as how negotiations at the just concluded talks in Bonn in Germany seem to have turned out, developing nations made up of mainly those from Africa are now looking inwards as a way out of the dilemma.

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