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Planting seaweed into a forest under the ocean can combat climate change
Scientists believe that seaweed culture, then releasing mature trees to the ocean floor, could be an effective way to combat global warming.
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The man planted trees for 40 years and the results were unexpected
Jadav Payeng lived in India and for the first time he took action to change his own living environment, everyone began 38 years ago. Now everything has changed unexpecte…
Biology
Can you keep the last red pine?
From the urgency of the recent mass of red pine trees, Lam Dong provincial authorities have asked the local government to put the red pine in the program.
Environment
Philippines decided to plant mangrove to fight storms
Philippines on November 25 announced that it will plant more mangrove forests to limit the effects of storms like Haiyan.
Environment
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions by silviculture
Warming of the Earth's climate is the cause of a rapid increase in greenhouse gas concentrations, including carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrogen dioxide.
Environment
Striving to increase forest coverage to 45% by 2020
In the afternoon of March 14, in Hanoi, the General Department of Forestry and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development held a press conference to introduce the…
Environment
Nearly half of a mangrove forest
In 63 years (from 1943-2007) the rate of loss of mangrove forests in Vietnam is very high. The area of mangroves has decreased from 408 thousand hectares (in 1943) to…
Environment
Planting forests on coal mines
In Indonesia, an old coal mine was successfully renovated by the mineral mining company to plant forests.
Environment
Indonesia planted millions of hectares of forests to reduce emissions
Indonesia is planning to plant millions of hectares of forests to achieve the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by more than 25% by 2020.
Environment
UN said the deforestation rate slowed
Deforestation rates are showing slowing indicators because of the impact of afforestation as well as the development of natural forests according to the latest statistic…
Science Events
Restoration of Truong Son forest
The WWF and Quang Nam Provincial FPD have just launched a forest restoration program in the Truong Son range, Laos and Vietnam border areas.
Science Events
VN: one of the 10 countries in the world with the largest area of afforestation
The report of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Asia-Pacific is leading the world in the rate of afforestation. The achievements of afforestation in th…