Tag: Deforestation - Page 11
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Is Pandora Possible? James Cameron's Home Tree Initiative
CalTech scientists discuss Pandora with James Cameron. Avatar's director James Cameron is busy following up his monstrously successful film with an environmental campaign, from visiting the Amazon with Al Gore to CalTech last week to join a panel of
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Half the Amazon Could be Lost by 2050, Says Study
In what could easily be considered a worst-case scenario for the fate of the world's largest rainforest, a study led by Brazil's National Institute of Special Research found that the size of the Amazon could be reduced 50 percent by
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Large-Scale Soy Farming Pushing Cattle Ranchers Deeper Into Amazon
Ah the tangled web... Report after report has detailed how both the beef and the leather industries have been major causes on deforestation in Brazil. There have even been ones showing how cattle
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US & Canada Lose Higher Percentage of Forests Than Brazil
All I can say is wow! Mongabay is highlighting a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences which reveals that between 2000 and 2005 over one million square kilometers of forest were chopped down
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Meet the Five Scariest Tree-Killing Machines (Video)
If trees could dream, these would give them nightmares In many places throughout the world, deforestation continues to be a problem--which is what makes seeing the latest in tree-killing machinery all the more troubling. Gone, it seems, are the days of
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Amazon Deforestation Down 51 Percent From This Time Last Year: So, What's Working?
Amazon deforestation dropped 51 percent from August 2009 to February 2010 when compared to the same period from 2008 to 2009, according to figures released this week by Brazil's National
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Where Would Life Be Without Plants?
Forgive the bad play on words, but one of this Sunday's episodes of Life over on our big brother Discovery Channel (that's 8pm ET by the way) is all about this planet's vast plant kingdom and all the different challenges they
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Eastern US Forests Show 'Significant' Decline in Past 40 Years
While recent research has shown that eastern US forests are growing faster as the climate changes, overall the total forest cover throughout the region has shown "significant" decline in since the early 1970s years,
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Best of Green: Travel and Nature
Understanding more about our natural world is essential to preserving it -- whether that's via research-based inquiry or personal interaction with the great outdoors. This year, both the scientific community and the travel community have come up with exci
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Amazon Rural to Urban Migration Not Helping Preserve Forests - Commercial Interests Swoop In
Reinforcing what previous studies have show, new research in the journal Conservation Letters reveals that as people start leaving the Amazon forest for urban centers, rather than as supposed, exploitation of the
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Peruvian Farmers Happy to Offset West's Carbon
Peruvian farmers are about to get a windfall--and it's all thanks to the burgeoning carbon offsetting market. Recently, one particular section of Peru was selected to be the site of a massive reforesting operation to offset CO2 emissions
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Rate of Forest Loss Has Decreased, But We're Not Out of the Woods Yet
After years of raising awareness about the importance of preserving the planet's forests, the last decade saw an overall drop in the rate of forest loss around the globe--though some regions of the world are still clearing forests
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Indonesia to Allow Underground Mining in Protected Forests
Indonesia and protecting forests haven't really played well together in recent years. Due to high deforestation rates, the nation ranks among the top tier of greenhouse gas emitters--not to mention the effect all this
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Hard Rocker Joins Fight for His Homeland's Forests
Armenian environmental activists fighting plans to build a copper mine in an endangered forest got a boost recently when
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We're Not Out of the Woods Yet... Did Policy or Recession Reduce Brazil's Deforestation Rates?
Just as its announced that Brazil and the United States will work together to slow Amazon deforestation, Cool Green Science asks an important question: Has it been policy or recession driving down deforestation
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10 Adorable Bats That May or May Not Suck Your Blood
It's hard to get a good look at creatures that only come out at night and, like most things that only appear in the dark, bats have a reputation for being more terrifying than charming. But some of these little guys are downright cute--like the Hondura
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How Much Carbon Do Different Forests Store & What Size Offsets Your Driving For a Year?
As any TreeHugger worth his or her epiphytes knows, preserving tropical rainforests is a major part of preventing the worst of climate change--deforestation itself causing nearly as many carbon emissions as the entire
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Uncontacted Amazon Tribes Get Internet Connection
For the first time, indigenous Amazonian tribesmen, long isolated by their location deep within the rainforest, will have access to the internet and telephone. The system, which includes a VSAT satellite dish, was installed by the
