Planet is paying for palm oil profits #PalmOilCosts
Palm oil production may have many benefits, but rapidly increasing plantation comes at a high cost to local and global[…]
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China’s trans-Amazon railway stokes forest fears #Amazon #Deforestation
The Amazon rainforest`s importance to the climate cannot quench China`s thirst for minerals and grain and its encroaching development, threatening[…]
Read moreForest restoration can turn the clock back #Deforestation #Carbon #GlobalWarming
Halting tree-felling and land clearance is not enough to save tropical rainforests without programmes of forest restoration in degraded areas,[…]
Read moreForest restoration gets a cutting edge #Deforestation #Regeneration
Degraded tropical forests throughout the world could be effectively restored by using a simple and inexpensive technique to speed up[…]
Read moreRise in plunder of Earth’s natural resources #ClimateChange #Resources
New UN report warns that the threefold increase in extraction of the Earth’s primary materials will intensify climate change, increase air[…]
Read moreHumans play high-risk ecological roulette #ClimateChange #ClimateCosts
Analysis of millions of records by thousands of scientists across the world shows that human impacts have helped push the[…]
Read moreClimate Change’s Costs Are Still Escalating #ClimateChange #ClimateCosts
Scientific reports released for a conference on disaster risk reduction warn that people are already dying and economies being hit by[…]
Read moreReducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions – First-Ever Approved Methodology for REDD Projects Now Available
For the first time, there is an approved methodology for measuring the greenhouse gas emissions avoided through the conservation of[…]
Read moreActivists Stage Creative Demonstration at EPA Headquarters: Call for Agency to Veto Controversial Spruce Mine Permit
On Monday, activists with the Rainforest Action Network staged a creative demonstration at the EPA headquarters to compel the agency[…]
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