published September 23, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Neil Palmer/International Center for Tropical Agriculture via flickr Or tuck into your bowl of Cheerios happily knowing that doing so won't be helping General Mills contribute to killing orangutans and other endangered species, nor trampling on indigenous rights. After pressure from and consultation with Rainforest Action Network , the Minneapolis-based food giant has committed to obtaining 100% of ...
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published September 7, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Lori via flickr While we've just learned that over 80% of new farmland in the tropics came at the expense of forests, another new study shows us that when it comes to calculating how much carbon tropical forests store , variable on the ground conditions make estimating how much sequestration potential forests have more tricky than thought. In ...
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published September 7, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Teacher Traveler via flickr More than 80% of new farmland in the tropics cultivated over the last two decades of the 20th century was carved out of tropical forests, according to new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Between 1980 and 2000, globally the amount of
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published September 6, 2010 and has No Comments
This image shows an area of road building and development adjacent to primary forest in red tones, and secondary forest regrowth in green tones. Credit: Carnegie Institution. You can see the effects of global warming in a new high-resolution map that shows carbon locked up in tropical forest vegetation and emitted by land-use practices in Peru's Amazon. The maps ...
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published September 3, 2010 and has No Comments
photo via RAN Rainforest Action Network's new Executive Director, Rebecca Tarbotton, has big plans for the Bay Area-based advocacy group. RAN , which was founded in 1985, takes on big banks that are funding the coal industry, like JP Morgan and Chase, and it has worked to protect the world's most threatened rainforests, like those in Indonesia that are ...
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published September 1, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Leo Freitas via flickr According to preliminary data from Brazilian NGO Imazon and Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE), deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is down 16% over the past twelve months, with 1,488 square kilometers (574 square miles) of forest cleared. All that tree felling resulted in 95.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published September 1, 2010 and has No Comments
Russian rock star Yury Shevchuk sings in Moscow's Pushkin Square at an Aug. 22 demonstration to protect Khimki Forest. Photo via RFE/RL . Russian authorities are not known for responding to popular protests, but when one of the country's most famous musicians and one of the world's biggest rock stars added their voices to the angry demonstrations against building ...
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published August 25, 2010 and has No Comments
Another interesting twist in the ongoing saga of Indonesia's greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and how to slow them: As Mongabay reports, a new report by the World Agroforestry Centre shows that because so many of the nation's emissions from deforestation actually occur outside of places officially designated as forests, the UN REDD program may actual reduce emissions in ...
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published August 22, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via FrogView From the top of Rio de Janeiro 's towering mountain of Corcovado, at the feet of the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue, the high rise urban centers neatly tucked along the shoreline are dwarfed by the rugged natural skyline. On these peaks, for as far as the eye can see, grows the dense jungle of the ...
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published August 18, 2010 and has No Comments
Forget for the moment about to what degree climate change has influenced the flooding in Pakistan . A new article in China Dialogue brings to light a new angle on one very aggravating factor on the overwhelming devastation: Illegal logging by the 'timber mafia' has increased erosion, landslides, and even sent felled trees floating down rivers damaging bridges and ...
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