Tag: Deforestation
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The Charcoal Bicyclists of Deforestation-Ravaged Mozambique
After chopping, burning, and packaging up what was once old growth forest, this charcoal-hauling cyclist will embark on a 70 km ride to sell his goods.
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Charcoal Kills 2 Million People & Vast Swaths of Forest Every Year. Can Biofuel Stop the Carnage?
A new venture seeks to produce sustainably farmed, clean-burning biofuel, turn a profit, and end the ills of charcoal in Mozambique—in one fell swoop.
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Palm Oil Even Worse For Deforestation, Emissions Than Thought
Indonesia may have laws stopping expansion of oil palm plantations into peat forests, but there are plenty of plantations grandfathered in, and a lack of law enforcement.
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Getting the Market to Tell the Truth
If the world is to move onto a sustainable path we need the market to tell the truth, through full cost pricing.
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Proceeds From Disneynature’s "Chimpanzee" Will Benefit the Jane Goodall Institute
In time for Earth Day, a heartwarming film about an orphaned chimp leads to an unlikely bond, raising both awareness and hard cash.
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Save an Endangered Cacao Tree with Cool Earth this Easter
Love chocolate? Help protect endangered cacao trees and the livelihoods of the Asháninka people.
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Startling Blue Trees Will Soon Adorn Seattle
One artist has traveled to cities throughout the world to paint urban trees as a way of calling attention to the plight of so many of their distant, forest-dwelling counterparts.
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Stop Illegal Logging By Targeting Mafia Masterminds, World Bank Says
The World Bank has just released a report on how best to combat illegal logging, saying in no uncertain terms that we need to take this as seriously as combatting other organized crime.
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Coney Island Boardwalk to Ditch Wood for Plastic and Concrete
The famed Coney Island boardwalk is getting a new look, and local groups aren't pleased.
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Will Dr. Seuss’ "The Lorax” Sell Environmentalism as It Breaks Box Office Records?
As "The Lorax" hawks everything from toys to cars, Dr. Seuss' message reaches record audiences.
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US Toilet Paper Choices Contributing To Indonesian Rainforest Destruction
WWF continues putting pressure on Asia Pulp & Paper, as the latter's toilet paper and tissue expand into the US market.
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Yellow Cedar Die-off in Alaska Linked to Global Warming
Residents of Alaska and neighboring British Columbia have known for years that the cedars are dying. Now scientists know why.
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Most Popular Articles of January: Astounding 3D Sculptures from Books, Indigenous Amazonian Child Burned to Death, and More
The best of January includes amazing landscape sculptures carved from old books, a logging horror in the Amazon, a cycling superhighway, and more.
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'Peak Timber' Is The New Normal State of Human Resource Usage
Researchers say that the Solomon Islands had been warned for decades that they were cutting timber faster than it could naturally regenerate, but they didn't listen. It's a sadly familiar story.
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Modern Mayans More Concerned About Environmental Problems Than Calendar Ending
And you probably should be too...
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NASA Satellite Images: Tar Sands in 1984 and Tar Sands Now
How much has the oil sands industry grown over the last few decades?
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Indigenous Amazonian Child Burned to Death by Loggers
"It was just pure evilness. She is from another tribe, they live in the woods, and have no contact with white people," said one witness.
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“Text for Trees” and Arbor Day Foundation Will Plant Up to One Million Trees
A tree-planting campaign that's as easy as a click, text or tweet seeks to reach a million before December 31.
