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and environmentally friendly technology, says Bugnicourt. t means better use of forest resources, longer lasting wood products,

#Levi s M&s Other Brands Pledge Zero-Deforestation Fashion LLEVI Strauss & Co.,Marks & spencer, Portico Brands and ASOS have joined Canopy Fashion Loved by Forests initiative,

committing to ensure their fabric sourcing doesn harm endangered forests or contribute to deforestation. Most rayon, viscose, modal, lyocell and other trademarked cellulosic fabrics start their journey as trees.

Canopy research has found that ancient and endangered forests are increasingly making their way into clothing.

One Year of Fashion Loved by Forest, which highlights key endangered forest otspotsthat it says should be protected from the impacts of the dissolving pulp and viscose sectors.

As part of the Fashion Loved by Forest initiative, more than 25 brands, retailers and designers, representing more than $75 billion in annual sales,

including Zara/Inditex, H&m, Eileen Fisher, Patagonia and Stella Mccartney, have committed to eliminate their use of fabrics that contain endangered forest fiber;

engage their suppliers to shift away from any endangered forest sourcing, advance long-term conservation solutions and alternative fabric options that are more sustainable such as recycled fabrics

or non-wood fibers like straw i

#Google Facebook Others Launch Sustainability Platform Unilever Coca-cola Google Facebook Nike Pepsico and dozens of other major companies and nonprofits have launched a digital sustainability platform

##When they first started looking for reservoirs for Ebola they were crashing through the rainforest looking at everythingâ##mammals insects other organisms.

Analysis of the tree shows insects developed wings 400 million years ago long before any other animal and at nearly the same time land plants grew substantially to form forests. he questions that surround this study

which they were extractedsays Robert J. Moon a researcher from the US Forest Service s Forest Products Laboratory

The Forest Products Laboratory through the US Department of agriculture the Purdue Research Foundation and the National Science Foundation funded the research h

The solution might be the Biolite stove-it's a collapsible wood-burning cook stove that uses almost any forest-found fuel

The Biolite stove is a collapsible wood-burning cook stove that uses almost any forest-fou...

and the vent open to allow oxygen flow before the fire is started using whatever forest fuels are available.

#NASA probe will reveal 3d architecture of forests from space NASA is developing a laser-based instrument for deployment on the International space station that will probe the depths of Earth's forests from space in a bid to reveal more about their role in the planet's carbon cycle.

"In particular, the GEDI data will provide us with global-scale insights into how much carbon is being stored in the forest biomass.

And the system will systematically canvas all land between 50 degrees latitude north and south enough to cover most of the tropical and temperate forests.

The lasers will send brief pulses of light around 16 billion of them in a year that are optimized to pass through the canopy of even very dense forests without causing harm to animals or vegetation,

"One of the most poorly quantified components of the carbon cycle is the net balance between forest disturbance

"GEDI will help scientists fill in this missing piece by revealing the vertical structure of the forest,

GEDI's 3d maps could be combined with maps from other satellites to examine the role forest architecture plays in biodiversity and land use,

#Student in Kenya Invents Solar Powered Forest fire Detector Efforts to curb forest loss around the world as a means of cutting carbon emissions just got a boost:

then automatically relays the information to a forest station through mobile phone technology. he heat sensors are programmed to detect temperatures which are over 45 degrees Celsius,

he said. nce the forest station receives the alert, the rangers can then marshal reinforcements from the nearby fire station to put out the fire.

Fires in Kenya last year destroyed 11,370 hectares of bush and forest land. Thirty-five percent of the already heavily deforested Mau Forest Complex was lost to fire, according to Noor Hassan Noor, an administrator in Kenya Rift valley province.

Noor called the new fire reporting device a potentially useful part of Kenya effort to keep forest fires in check. his is an interesting invention

Some of the planned uses are for forests, camping, fire suppression, agriculture, livestock, and human consumption.

Fundamental additions to the automated farm, these sensors would enable a real time understanding of current farm, forest or body of water conditions.

Natural carbon sinks like forests and oceans are critical for helping soak up some of these gases.

The work was based on 76 long-term forest studies, and is published in the journal Science1. Study co-leader Phillip van Mantgem of the Western Ecological Research center in Arcata

For example, a forest that is relatively young starts out with many small saplings, and as the forest grows it also naturally thins out,

until the same space is covered with many fewer, but much larger trees. For this reason, they only looked at plots where the forest was more than 200 years old parts of the forest spared from the axe

since large-scale logging began in the region in the nineteenth century. These trees are continuously dying

but the forest-wide thinning process has finished. Modern fire suppression was ruled also out by looking at the set of forests that have no history of frequent fires.

They too have seen an increase in mortality. So far, the correlation with increased temperature is just that:

could vary between different forests. Those in hot, arid regions may be losing trees because of drought stress.

and his team captured may be symptoms of climatic stress that make the forests more liable to such catastrophes."

"says Werner Kurz of the Canadian Forest Service in Victoria, British columbia. What the work means for the carbon balance of the Earth is also not as obvious as it may seem.

Recently, it was shown that old forests continue to suck away carbon into their third centuries and beyond2."

and mess around with the forests, you'd probably end up accelerating mortality rates, "says co-author Jerry Franklin of the University of Washington in Seattle.

He mentions control of any invasive species that might take over from stressed forest species, the transport of tree species to colder climes further north and more controlled burns to prepare the forests for more frequent wild fires.

But he adds, "No one really knows what to do. All the sudden we are uncharted off into territory. r

providing a quick and cost-effective snapshot of mammal diversity in otherwise inaccessible rainforests. Researchers stumbled on the grisly cataloguing technique while studying a form of anthrax that kills chimpanzees in C# te d'Ivoire.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania s Tissue Microfabrication Laboratory, the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative medicine and elsewhere are developing methods for bioengineering functional vessels that could someday be used to ferry blood around 3-D-printed organs.

In test scenarios, the group has flown physical quadrotors over projections of forests, shown from an aerial perspective to simulate a drone view as

Lou's lab built and tested solar cells with nanotube forests of varying lengths The shortest,

Using their nanotube forest they're able to get the devices to operate in pure ion mode

The molecules stand shoulder to shoulder like trees in a forest while a few jitter around sideways.

Then using a minuscule manipulator they break off a single nanowire from a forest of them grown by molecular beam epitaxy insert the wire into the hole and weld it in place.

Just imagine thousands of kilometers of farm without having to clear cut thousands of kilometers of forest or other habitat on earth...

and to halt global forest destruction entirely by 2030. Razing and burning forests accounts for about 10 percent of present global carbon emissions or 3. 6 billion tons of CO2 a year.

Currently eight football fields worth of forest is degraded or destroyed every ten seconds according to the World Wildlife Fund.

So if it's successful the plan's impact on carbon dioxide emissions could equate to taking every single car On earth off the road.

and plant species that call these forests home now and will need room to move as temperatures rise in coming decades.

Neither is the nation of Brazil home to roughly 60 percent of the Amazon rainforest

As part of the declaration Norway the U k. and Germany among others pledged $1 billion to developing countries such as Liberia and Peru for preserving forests.

As Popular Science reported live from the climate summit last week a coalition announced a new commitment to stop tropical forest and peatland loss related to the palm oil industry.

and conserve forests that have been cut down as a result of the palm oil industry. They have pledged also to stop buying palm oil from suppliers that destroy forests for the creation of plantations.

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced that it is dropping all of its investments in fossil fuels-about $60. 2 million or 7 percent of the total $860 million endowment in favor of renewable energy.

"entomologist and science reporter Aaron Pomerantz wrote on his site last month after taking one to the Peruvian Amazon rainforest."

They include enhancing forests to make them absorb more CO2, building chemical plants that filter the air directly,

the new metasurfaces that the researchers created resemble a cut forest where only the stumps remain.

the researchers grew forests of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes on a conductive substrate. Atomic layer chemical vapour deposition was used to in sulate the nanotubes with a coating of aluminum oxide.

Optically transparent thin calcium layers were deposited then using physical vapor deposition over the nanotube forest.

#Sri lanka first to protect mangroves Sri lanka has become the first nation in the world to comprehensively protect all of its mangrove forests.

"No nation in history has protected ever all of its mangrove forests and Sri lanka is going to be the first one to do so,

""It is not only that mangroves sequester an order of magnitude more carbon than other types of forest,

mangrove forests are also not susceptible to forest fires. But mangroves also offer coastal communities a more direct and immediate form of protection,

It showed that two people died in the settlement with dense mangrove and scrub forest,

Healthy fish populations, sustained by healthy mangrove forests, have provided also livelihoods and nutrition for millions of small-scale fishermen and their families for generations, allowing coastal communities to sustain themselves.

A UN report published in November 2012 warned that the growing demand for prawns meant that valuable mangrove forests were still being felled

800 hectares (21,800 acres) of existing mangrove forests by providing alternative job training, funding microloans to people in exchange for protecting local mangroves forests.

The medical advisory board for the Celiac disease Foundation, a nonprofit based in Woodland Hills, California, could not reach a consensus on the viability of Miller's research.

the new metasurfaces that the team created resemble a cut forest where only the stumps remain.

as well as U s. Forest Service employees who have spotted the flying bots near wildfires, has led the FAA to take further action against rule-breaking drone operators.

the new metasurfaces that the team created resemble a cut forest where only the stumps remain.

Researchers at USC and Wake Forest Baptist Medical center have developed a brain prosthesis that is designed to help individuals suffering from memory loss.

and tested at Wake Forest Baptist, the device builds on decades of research by Ted Berger and relies on a new algorithm created by Dong Song,

The development also builds on more than a decade of collaboration with Sam Deadwyler and Robert Hampson, of the Department of Physiology & Pharmacology of Wake Forest Baptist,

Accurate readings The effectiveness of the model was tested by the USC and Wake Forest Baptist teams.

There are really only two big patches of intact forest left On earth#A new study uncovers the ruinous consequences, to plant and animal species,

of our increasingly fragmented forests Can a forest that exists only in the spaces between roads

and agricultural development truly be called a forest? Not so much, say researchers studying the growing, global problem of forest fragmentation.

And the ersistent, deleterious and often unpredictedconsequences of human activity, finds a new study conducted by a team off 24 international scientists,

and animal life. here are really only two big patches of intact forest left On earth the Amazon

a professor at North carolina State university, told the New yorker. early 20 percent of the world remaining forests are the distance of a football field or about 100 meters away from forest edges,

he elaborated in a statement. eventy percent of forest lands are within a half-mile of forest edges.

That means almost no forests can really be considered wilderness. And the consequences of that forest loss, the researchers discovered, may be more profound than wee previously realized.

To figure that out, they looked at the results of seven experiments, which took place on five different continents,

that aimed to simulate the impacts of human activity on forests. Several of the studies have been going on for decades,

when patches of forest become smaller and more isolated, the abundance of birds, mammal, insects and plants decreases in kind those pressures,

Fragmented forests experienced a decline in their core ecosystem functions as well: they were less able to sequester carbon dioxide,

fragmented forests lose more than half of their species within just 20 years; in the one experiment that still ongoing after more than two decades, the losses are continuing to compound.

and dicing of the forests has wrought. Appreciating the full extent of the damage, the authors argue,

standing upright like trees in a forest. The researchers used a rod to roll the"forest"flat,

creating a dense film of aligned carbon nanotubes. In experiments, Wardle and his team integrated the film into airplane wings via conventional,

"The system starts with an"artificial forest"of nanowire heterostructures, consisting of silicon and titanium oxide nanowires, developed earlier by Yang and his research group."

"Our artificial forest is similar to the chloroplasts in green plants, "Yang says.""When sunlight is absorbed, photo-excited electron?

"Once the forest of nanowire arrays is established, it is populated with microbial populations that produce enzymes known to selectively catalyze the reduction of carbon dioxide.

By analyzing the spectral signals captured by a special sensor they installed at Harvard Forest in Petersham, Mass."

Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus. Image credit: Neil Palmer/CIAT via Wikimedia Commons Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus.

Image credit: Neil Palmer/CIAT via Wikimedia Commons These developments are hugely important. The Amazon, most of which is in Brazil,

So people stopped cutting down rain forest. There could be something to that, but there is also reason to be skeptical.

Bolivia, and other countries with tropical forest should have responded to global economic changes with a big dip in deforestation

The other plausible cause involves Brazil forest policy. Brazil adopted a number of anti-deforestation measures,

and logging use of forests. These policies are being studied carefully in other countries with deforestation problems.

But Fearnsi also lays considerable blame on policy changes by the current government that have weakened forest protections in particular an amnesty that gives violators reasons to hope that there will be future episodes of forgiveness of their current sins.

and his research group. ur artificial forest is similar to the chloroplasts in green plants,

Once the forest of nanowire arrays is established, it is populated with microbial populations that produce enzymes known to selectively catalyze the reduction of carbon dioxide.

the new metasurfaces that the researchers created resemble a cut forest where only the stumps remain.

Fabricating the rectennas begins with growing forests of vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes on a conductive substrate.

Finally, physical vapor deposition is used to deposit optically-transparent thin layers of calcium then aluminum metals atop the nanotube forest.

when they are hidden in forests. Infrasound is produced when a volcano erupts resulting in the event being able to be tracked from remote locations.

During his first year at Wake Forest he heard about a percussion-playing robot designed by Georgia Tech researchers

With the support of a grant from the Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (URECA) Center Lee teamed up with Craig Hamilton an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Wake Forest Baptist Medical center

At the Wake Forest Medical center doctors use replica bodies to help train surgeons to use the Da vinci system Lee said.

This April Lee will represent Wake Forest at the ACC Meeting of the Minds an event where outstanding undergraduate researchers from each ACC university gather at one member university to present their research either verbally or as a poster.

The above story is provided based on materials by Wake Forest University. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length h

In forests there s a lot of fungi that are breaking down the compounds. So the mycelium from mushrooms you use that as a glue to hold together these agricultural byproducts?

detailed maps showing changes in forests over time. The platform, unveiled at the International Climate change Conference in Copenhagen, could be used as a tool for nations to comply with the United nations-proposed REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest degradation in Developing Countries) program

which would require members to monitor the state of their forests and land use. Based largely on data from the UK's Stern Review on the Economics of Climate change report,

the REDD program plans to offer money in exchange for the prevention of the destruction of forests deemed significant to curbing global climate change.

According to the Stern report, keeping forests intact is one of the most cost-effective ways to cut carbon emissions."

"We hope this technology will help stop the destruction of the world's rapidly-disappearing forests,

when forests and wetlands are destroyed to clear land to grow biofuel crops. And with ILUC added to the mix, it looks like some top biofuel crops are worse for the environment, in terms of carbon emissions, than crude oil.

May the forest be with you. According to Hit Flix, Twin peaks will return for nine episodes.

In the 26 may issue of Nature Communications, Ma and his colleague, materials scientist Shaoqin arahgong, plus collaborators at UW-Madison and the Madison-based U s. Dept of agriculture Forest Products

and generally include major cities harbors farms and forests. Irina Overeem research scientist for the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System at the University of Colorado says the proportion of world deltas vulnerable to flooding is expected to increase by 50 percent this century.

This opens up for incredibly exciting future opportunities for the regional forest and construction industry as well as for regional raw material. r

published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, estimated that about 339,000 deaths worldwide between 1997 and 2006 were associated with forest, grass and peat fires.

"he added. 3d-printed livers The Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative medicine has pioneered the field of laboratory-grown and printed organs.

On the company website, they feature animated pictures of mini-forests growing on building rooftops supplying power to the entire building.

originating from the Mammoth Lakes Basin in central California Inyo National forest. In this time of significant drought and water scarcity, the function and efficiency of this watershed is of the utmost importance.

The neighboring forests surrounding Fort Collins catch and filter the water. Thus, if the forests are harmed,

so too is the water supply in this community. Partnering with The Nature Conservancy will work to improve forest conditions

and make advancements that proactively minimize wildfires in the region by instituting treatment testing and informing larger-scale restoration projects in the future.

#China's Climate Pledge Will Include New Commitment To Forests Look for China to make new investments in forestry

Expect China to expand forests in a land that has been deforested for millennia and to tinker with existing forests so they more effectively capture atmospheric carbon.

China pledged in 2009 to expand its forests by 40 million hectares and forest-stock volume by 1. 3 billion cubic meters by 2020.

According to the World bank, China forest cover has increased since then from 21.7 percent of land area in 2009 to 22.6 percent in 2012, the most recent year for

which the bank has data. China reforestation program was ambitious even before the Copenhagen summit,

a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has collaborated with researchers in the Madison-based U s. Department of agriculture Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) to develop a surprising solution:

"Now the chips are so safe you can put them in the forest and fungus will degrade it.

nanostructures (such as nanowires) must be paced into dense"nanostructure forests, "producing 3-D nanogeometries in which ions and electrons must rapidly move.

#The world's first full-color, flexible skin-like display Imagine a soldier who can change the color and pattern of his camouflage uniform from woodland green to desert tan at will.

"Now the chips are so safe you can put them in the forest and fungus will degrade it.

The hope is that eventually technologies like this can help people figure out where forests are most vulnerable

. assistant professor of regenerative medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Medical center and a co-inventor of the system. ut how do they know when theye removed enough tissue?

all from Wake Forest Baptist, are: Edward Levine, M d.,Surgical Sciences Oncology; Frank Marini, Ph d,

Wake Forest Baptist Medical center (www. wakehealth. edu) is recognized a nationally academic medical center in Winston-salem, N c,

Its divisions are Wake Forest Baptist Health, a regional clinical system with close to 175 locations, 900 physicians and 1, 000 acute care beds;

Wake Forest School of medicine, an established leader in medical education and research; and Wake Forest Innovations,

which promotes the commercialization of research discoveries and operates Wake Forest Innovation Quarter, an urban research and business park specializing in biotechnology, materials science and information technology.

Wake Forest Baptist clinical, research and educational programs are ranked annually among the best in the country by U s. News & World Report u

#New antibodies for cancer treatment A research team at Aarhus University i Denmark has developed ten new antibodies that can possibly be used in the battle against cancer.

#Two new groups of viruses discovered Two new groups of viruses have been discovered within the Bunyavirus family in the tropical forest of Ivory coast.

Researchers at the University of Bonn and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) have discovered two new groups of viruses within the Bunyavirus family in the tropical forest of Ivory coast.

Not in Schmallenberg but instead in the African tropical forest of the Ivory coast, where the virologist has been conducting research for more than ten years,

"And the bio-based transistors are so safe that you can put them in the forest,

#Farming Now Worse for Climate Than Clearing Forests Efforts such as these to slow deforestation have delivered some of humanity few gains in its otherwise lackadaisical battle so far against global warming.

The year before, nearly 60,000 acres of rainforest had been torn out of the municipality. Now farmers and loggers were being arrested by armed police,

unless they proved they were protecting the rainforest. The campaign marked a sharp change from the 1970s

While United nations climate negotiations focus heavily on forest protections the researchers note that delegates to the talks ignore similar opportunities to reform farming. he decline in deforestation over the past decade

quantifies the reductions in climate pollution from the degradation and clearcutting of forests. Clearcutting most often clears space for agriculture,

The research shows that the recent climate-protecting gains in forests are being canceled nearly out by efforts to satisfy the world growing appetitearticularly its appetite for meat.

Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest spiked recently following nearly a decade of declines, for example, as farmers and loggers rushed to exploit loopholes in forest protection laws.

Some parts of Central africa are seeing deforestation in areas where it was not previously a problem.

And cutting down trees can reduce moisture levels in a rainforest which could cause parts of the Amazon to start dying offven if everybody chainsaws simultaneously jammed.

and perhaps a good deal of polemic, about REDD, Steve Schwartzman, director of tropical forest policy at the Environmental defense Fund, said. ut, over time,

and giraffe standing in a forest with trees in the background. But occasionally it stumbles.

a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has collaborated with researchers in the Madison-based U s. Department of agriculture Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) to develop a surprising solution:

Ma says. ow the chips are so safe you can put them in the forest

In addition to Kiessling lab, groups in the labs of UW-Madison bacteriology Professor Katrina Forest, Scripps Research Institute cell and molecular biology Professor James Paulson,

"The chips are so safe you can put them in the forest and fungus will degrade it.

take into the rainforest and get a genetic sequence right there.""The drawbacks identified so far revolve around accuracy-the data it produces is currently less accurate than the data produced by a larger machine,

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