Tag: Deforestation - Page 8
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20% of World's Plant Species Threatened With Extinction - Yes, Human Activity is Main Cause
When you here the phrase 'endangered species' undoubtedly the cute, cuddly and carnivorous pop to mind,
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Amazon Road Workers Find Ancient Earth Carvings
Road workers in Brazil were preparing to pave a highway through the Amazon rainforest recently, when they made an important archeological discovery --
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Kilimanjaro's Rapid Glacier Melting Quickened by Deforestation
Some new insight into the vanishing snow cover on Mount Kilimanjaro: A new paper in the journal Global and Planetary Change shows how deforestation is contributing to the rapid retreat of glaciers on the iconic
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Burning Wood May Do More Harm Than Good
Of all the sources of renewable energy, one type invariably dredges up more debate than any other—biomass. Granted, the term biomass does cover a lot of topics and a lot of different controversies—from food versus
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General Mills To Use 100% Sustainable Palm Oil - Eat Your Wheaties Without Destroying the Rainforest
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
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Palm Oil Plantations on Peat Soil No Longer Qualify for Clean Development Mechanism Carbon Credits
Good that this loophole's been closed: As Wetlands International reports agricultural plantations on peat soils--those in Southeast Asia for palm oil or other industrial agriculture
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US $50 Million Pledge For Cleaner Cookstoves is Big Win For Women, Forests & Climate
Today Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to announce a $50 million pledge of seed money, distributed over five years, to help the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves provide 100 million clean-burning
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A Blow to Native Forest Logging: Major Australian Company Drops the Practice
In a major victory for the Australian environmental movement, Tasmanian timber company Gunns Limited announced on Thursday that it will no longer engage in native forest logging.
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Reforestation Helps Revitalize Crisis-Stricken Armenia
The series of calamities -- a massive earthquake, energy shortages, and military conflict -- that hit the
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Similar Tropical Forests Store Much Different Amounts of Carbon: New Report
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
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80% of New Farmland in Tropics Carved From Forests Between 1980-2000 - Land the Size of Alaska Cleared
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
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First-Ever Carbon Map Shows Global Warming in Peru's Amazon
You can see the effects of global warming in a new high-resolution map that
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Interview: Rainforest Action Network Executive Director Rebecca Tarbotton
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,
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Amazon Deforestation Down 16% Over Past Year, New Data Shows
According to preliminary data from Brazilian NGO Imazon, 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
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Bono, Russian Rocker Help Halt Controversial Highway through Moscow's Khimki Forest
Russian authorities are not known for responding to popular protests, but when one of the country's most famous
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A Rainforest Grows for Brooklyn Bridge: Sustainably Harvested Wood Proposed for Boardwalk
New York City has recently come under fire from rainforest advocates, and rightfully so: The City is the country's number one buyer of endangered rainforest wood. However, as The New York Times reports, a movement
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REDD to Offer No Net Emission Reductions in Indonesia - Too Many Forested Areas Omitted by Government
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
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World's Largest Urban Forest Was Planted by Hand
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
