published May 1, 2009 and has No Comments
photo: Jeremy Carbaugh via flickr Most TreeHugger readers probably a good handle on the concept that large monocropped fields have lesser biodiversity than more mixed cultivation, and that industrial agriculture uses excessive amounts of fertilizer to push crop yields to their maximum, even at the expense of decreasing soil fertility. But now scientists in Switzerland have identified why all ...
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published May 1, 2009 and has No Comments
Photo by Janet Wood During the last weekend in April, a group of volunteers laid the final necessary pieces into Withers Estuary to reintroduce oysters to their native ecosystem. The project is part of the Withers Estuary Community Collaborative (WECC), a partnership of leaders in Myrtle Beach , South Carolina . Th...
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published April 15, 2009 and has No Comments
Image: Wild Wonders of Europe Rare Iberian Lynx Photographed in Natural Habitat Wild Wonders of Europe has done it again. This month, photographer Pete Oxford undertook the mission to photograph the world''s rarest cat -- the Iberian Lynx -- in its natural habitat. The Iberian Lynx is the only feline to be categorized by the IUCN as Critically Endangered ...
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published April 7, 2009 and has No Comments
This past Palm Sunday, Fauna and Flora International highlighted the overexploitation of palms in Central America in an attempt to raise awareness of the impact that global demand for palm leaves is having on some of the world’s most pristine rainforests. We're no strangers to the intersection of religion and the ...
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published March 25, 2009 and has No Comments
all photos by Kelly Rossiter I've just arrived back in Canada from a trip to Kericho, Kenya to see the Lipton Tea plantation. They are working in partnership with the Rainforest Alliance to have all of their tea plantations certified sustainable by the year 2015. This is a massive undertaking, and Kericho is essentially the model plantation. I'll be ...
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