CBD News Headlines

• Forests group halts plan to endorse Indonesian paper giant
  [released on: 16/08/2018]
  JAKARTA, Indonesia - The main global group for certifying sustainable wood has suspended plans to give its influential endorsement to Indonesian paper giant Sinarmas after revelations it cut down tropical forests and used an opaque corporate structure to hide its activities.
• Sea level to increase risk of deadly tsunamis
  [released on: 15/08/2018]
  Aug. 15 (UPI) -- New research suggests sea level rise caused by manmade global warming is likely to increase the risk of devastating tsunamis.
• Next 5 years predicted to be abnormally hot
  [released on: 16/08/2018]
  This summer's worldwide heatwave makes 2018 a particularly hot year. As will be the next few years, according to a new study.
• Climate change, not industry to blame for UNESCO site's decline: Scientists
  [released on: 16/08/2018]
  Two prominent water scientists say a debate over Canada's largest national park has become politicized and industrial development is being blamed for changes it didn't cause.
• Sydney rock oysters getting smaller as oceans become more acidic
  [released on: 16/08/2018]
  NSW oysters are shrinking and fewer in number, and academics fear the cause is climate change
• Pine marten spotted in Kielder forest for first time in 90 years
  [released on: 16/08/2018]
  Fearsome predator was extinct in England but Scottish relatives have crossed the border and set up home in Northumberland
• Study shows forest conservation is a powerful tool to improve nutrition in developing nations
  [released on: 16/08/2018]
  A first-of-its-kind global study shows that children in 27 developing countries have better nutrition-when they live near forests.
• How far has Indonesia come on peatland conservation and restoration?
  [released on: 16/08/2018]
  Indonesia - The joint need to protect remaining peatlands while restoring degraded lands resounded throughout the Tropical Peatlands Exchange, held at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) headquarters on 8 August 2018.
• Earth has more trees now than 35 years ago
  [released on: 16/08/2018]
  Despite ongoing deforestation, fires, drought-induced die-offs, and insect outbreaks, the world's tree cover actually increased by 2.24 million square kilometers - an area the size of Texas and Alaska combined - over the past 35 years, finds a paper published in the journal Nature.
• Scientists seek new ways to combat Florida's growing 'red tide'
  [released on: 16/08/2018]
  (Reuters) - Scientists in Florida are on the cusp of developing promising methods to control toxic algae blooms like the "red tide" that has been killing marine life along a 150-mile (240-km) stretch of the Gulf Coast, the head of a leading marine lab said on Wednesday.
• Study of greater Yellowstone pronghorn finds highway crossing structures a conservation success
  [released on: 16/08/2018]
  Pronghorn responses to wildlife road-crossing structures and fencing can inform similar solutions for other migratory wildlife threatened by vehicle collisions