Tag: Deforestation - Page 5
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Tiny Investment in Stopping Deforestation Has Huge Returns For Climate, Jobs, Biodiversity: UNEP
Culminating World Environment Day itself, backing up this year's theme of Forests: Nature At Your Service, UNEP has highlighted the social, ecological and economic value
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Two Environmentalists 'Executed' in the Brazilian Amazon
According to reports from Brazilian media, two environmentalists known for their outspoken opposition to deforestation in the Amazon have been killed in a manner investigators are describing as an execution. José Cláudio
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Deforestation in Critical Part of Amazon Doubled Last Year
An update on what we reported back in February, that deforestation in critical parts of the Amazon is shooting up again. Satellite data from Imazon shoes that deforestation in Mato Grosso doubled during August
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10 Year Old Takes It To KFC, Urges Protection of North Carolina's Forests (Video)
A couple years ago when I interviewed Gus Speth, then at Yale University and now at Vermont Law School, he said that much like with the civil rights movement in the '60s, environmentalism would require a generational change before they truly became
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Liberia and EU Sign Deal to End Illegal Logging That Funded War
Worldwide, 20 to 40 percent of industrial wood comes from illegal sources. So it's big news that Liberia, which has half or more of West Africa's remaining rainforests, has signed a deal with the European Union, where an
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Adorable Endangered Tiger Cubs Caught on Camera...In Forest Marked to be Cleared (Video)
There are few things more adorable in the wild kingdom than tiger cubs. Three have been caught on camera, playing on the forest floor with leaves. However, the forest that these endangered Sumatran tiger cubs call home is slated
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Morocco Timber Mafia Threatens Water Supply By Felling Cedars - Setting Up A Natural Disaster?
Echoes of what contributed to catastrophic flooding in Pakistan last summer: Illegal logging by a timber mafia ("a cedar mafia, an organized mafia") is felling so many of Morocco's iconic cedar trees that the nation's
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World's Biggest Beef Company Agrees to Not Buy Deforestation Beef, Use Slave Labor
Report after report has illustrated the direct connection between beef cattle ranching and deforestation in Brazil, and now there's some progress on reigning in the tree-felling. As Mongabay reports the world's largest beef company, JBS-Friboi, has
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10-Year-Old Pressures KFC to Stop Destroying U.S. Forests (Video)
Take a small group of determined schoolchildren who care about the environment and you get a story to inspire the rest of us: first, Cole had a school project that ended up getting McDonald's to change to recycled
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Debate Over Plantations in Degraded Forests Bog Down Indonesia Anti-Deforestation Plans
If you're following how Indonesia's plans to stop deforestation have essentially halted, The Investigative Fund has some good background:
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Xylophone of the Forest, Stunning Ad for Docomo's Wooden Cellphone
This is probably one of the most beautiful and awesome ads I have ever come across, thanks to Frame and Form. Watch the Xylophone of the Forest, and before you shrug it off because trees might have been killed for the making of this clip, hear me
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Rising Gold Prices Mean Deforestation in Peruvian Amazon Up 600%
One side effect of gold prices continuing to rise (now at a new record of $1500/ounce): Deforestation in parts of the Peruvian Amazon have increased up to 600% since 2003.
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Palm Oil Lobby Fights World Bank's Environmental Initiatives in Indonesia, Malaysia
We know how destructive the palm oil industry in Indonesia and Malaysia, so it was great news when the World Bank announced that social and environmental safeguards would serve as guiding principles in its lending to the palm
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Indonesia's Deforestation Halt, Halted
If you included emissions from deforestation into national greenhouse gas emissions (which isn't always done, but probably should...) Indonesia is the world's third-highest emitter--India is if you don't take into account deforestation emissions. It
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Is Consulting Firm McKinsey Using REDD to Accelerate Deforestation?
We knew there were plenty of drawbacks to and imperfections in the REDD program, but a recent Greenpeace report points out one that was a little more unexpected, and unforgivable, than most. Greenpeace explains that many
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Mangroves Are World's Most Carbon-Rich Tropical Forests & They've Disappearing Fast
We've known that the world's mangroves are in decline, with 30-50% of them being cleared in the past half century and 16% of them currently threatened. Now new research shows that mangroves
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Saving Ethiopia's 'Church Forests': Embattled Islands of Biodiversity in a Denuded Landscape
Ethiopia's Orthodox Christians, who believe in creating a living symbol of the garden of Eden around their places of worship, have nurtured some 35,000 'church forests' -- many of them islands of green growth in an almost entirely deforested landscape.
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Half of All Mangroves Destroyed, But Why Does It Matter? (Video)
After the big Tsunami of 2005, there was renewed interest in protecting Mangrove swamps and other coastal ecosystems, not just for their conservation value—but for their role in buffering the effects of tsunamis on
