Tag: Deforestation - Page 13
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Fragmented Rainforests Hold 40% Less Biomass
Deforestation, we know, contributes a significant amount of carbon to the atmosphere. Stopping deforestation and forest degradation is a major goal of the REDD program, to be discussed at COP15 and
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Meanwhile Over at KIimaforum09... The People's Climate Summit
Badges with people's personal climate change pledges. All photos: Matthew McDermott If you can't get into the main COP15 show over at the Bella Center, fear not Kilimaforum09 has plenty of events going on to get you thinking about what's not being
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Angels, Reindeers, Pigs and Christmas Trees; sustainable wood decoration by Lovi
more images below Matteria, good design+smart materials online store, suggest a spicy Christmas this year, without forgetting the environment. Apart from the gorgeous cork advent candle holder, the cosy Finnish red felt slippers, and giftbags to spoil
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Developed World Timber Demand Threatens to Undermine REDD Forest Protection Program
It often seems like the answer (or at least part of it) to many environmental problems: Reduce consumption of natural resources. And when it comes to reducing deforestation the Environmental Investigation Agency says that
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Malaysian Rainforest Tribes Establish 'Peace Park' to Push Back Loggers
Here's one solution to holding back loggers: Bruno Manser Fonds reports seventeen Penan communities in Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia have proclaimed a new tropical forest reserve on their lands. The newly inaugurated Penan Peace
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9 Wild Eco Volunteer Opportunities to Save the World
Photo by Mara 1 via Flickr "It's not a job. It's an adventure." That old Navy recruitment slogan can be readily applied to voluntourism, perhaps the most environmental way to fly off to remote lands. Opportunities abound, from replanting secluded
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From the Forums: Explaining Deforestation
Tonytiuhml could use some help: I'm working on this presentation for my Speech class on deforestation. I was wondering if you guys could help me break this down for my class. I will be explaining
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From the Forums: Get McDonald's Out of the Rainforest!
gaiaisi has a bone to pick: So few people know this, but of equal importance as a cause of global warming is deforestation. But while most people associate the chainsaws with paper demand, the leading cause of the
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Split Carbon Costs of Deforestation Between Producers & Consumers to Slow Felling Forests
It's probably no great secret to TreeHugger readers at this point that part of the reason carbon emissions in developing nations are rapidly rising is partially because manufacturing of goods for export to the developed world. In fact in China at least
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$36 Billion Rainforest Protection Plan Agreed to by 35 Nations - Now Who Will Pay For It...?
A group of 35 nations have agreed to a plan that aims to reduce global deforestation by 25% by 2015, The Guardian reports. The price tag for it all could run as high as $36 billion over the next five years. Now who will pay for
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Indonesia Suspends Controversial Paper Company's License to Review Environmental Record
Indonesia may have deported a total of thirteen activists and two journalists over
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Indonesia Scores One For Press Repression & Environmental Destruction - Reporters, Activists Deported
Seems the government of Indonesia didn't much like Greenpeace activists trying to disrupt the continued destruction of rainforest for plantation agriculture. Nor did they appreciate
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Gangsters Go Green! Mafia Tied to Fraudulent Italian Wind Farms - Madagascar 'Timber Mafia' Thriving
There have been an increasing number of stories coming to light detailing how organized crime syndicates around the world have been getting their dirty little fingers into the green world. The latest: 1) Italian police
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Massive Tree Trunks Come to London en route to Copenhagen
Ghost Forest has arrived in London, from Ghana, on its way to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. Ten eerie and massive tree stumps are lying in state in London's Trafalgar Square, a bit like fallen warriors. The show, designed to raise
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Good News/Bad News - Amazon Deforestation Reaches Record Low, But Greenland Ice Melt Accelerating
A mixed bag in climate change news this morning: Satellite imagery reveals that Amazon deforestation has dropped to the lowest rate since Brazil began monitoring efforts, President Inácio Lula da Silva announced yesterday
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Boreal Forests Store Twice as Much Carbon as Tropical - So Why Aren't We Doing More to Protect Them?
With all the focus on tropical forest conservation and the amount of carbon emissions resulting from its deforestation, are we overlooking protecting the massive amount of carbon stored in the world's boreal forests?
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REDD Forest Protection Scheme Still Missing Key Safeguards as Barcelona Climate Talks Close
As the last official negotiations before the COP15 climate talks came to a close in Barcelona, progress on REDD forest protection scheme negotiations hit a new low. That's the word from the Ecosystems Climate Alliance,
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Palm Oil in the Spotlight: Plantations Threaten Rare Cats, Peatland Emissions Increasing + A Small Victory
Three stories coming in focusing on deforestation, climate change and biodiversity: Scientists point out that when it comes to carbon emissions from peatland loss SE
