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Sequoias, earth's oldest life, smothered by smog

Posted by bensor on Tuesday, 29 May 2012 in Forestry

'If this is happening in a national park that isn't even close to an urban area, what do you think is happening in your backyard?' By TRACIE CONE On a clear day, the view from Beetle Rock in Sequoia National Park extends west for 105 miles across the patchwork of crops in California's agricultural...

DNA Evidence Shows That Marine Reserves Help to Sustain Fisheries

Posted by bchristo on Monday, 28 May 2012 in Forestry

Researchers reporting online on May 24 in the Cell Press journal Current Biology present the first evidence that areas closed to all fishing are helping to sustain valuable Australian fisheries. The international team of scientists applied a forensic DNA profiling approach to track the dispersal pat...

Take a Virtual Walk Through a Rain Forest

Posted by EarthDude on Saturday, 24 March 2012 in Forestry

Google's latest Street View mapping projects let users take a stroll in the lush Amazon rain forest or the recuperating cities of Thailand, shining a spotlight on both deforestation issues and disaster recovery. Google has documented local roads, college campuses, malls and even airports in the 360...

Amazon Rainforest Loss in Brazil Drops

Posted by Wolf on Tuesday, 27 December 2011 in Forestry

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell to the lowest level on record between August 2010 and July 2011 according to preliminary data from Brazil's National Institute of Space Research (INPE).Forest clearing during the period amounted to 6,238 square kilometers (2,408 square miles), down ...

What’s a Trees Value?

Posted by bensor on Wednesday, 19 October 2011 in Forestry

Mark Tercek knows a thing or two about money. For years he worked at the mega investment firm Goldman Sachs, where he headed the Corporate Finance and Equity Capital Markets divisions, and later went on to found the company’s Center for Environmental Markets. Since 2008, he’s been the president and ...

Brazil Forest Law changes threaten to send climate achievements up in smoke

Posted by bchristo on Wednesday, 31 August 2011 in Forestry

Brazil: Proposed changes to Brazil's forest laws that will cut back protection and offer wide ranging amnesties for illegal deforestation threaten to undo the country's impressive performances in cutting back emissions and protecting biodiversity. "As it stands now, the forest law i...

Forests revealed as climate giants

Posted by henryfool on Tuesday, 19 July 2011 in Forestry

FORESTS play a larger role in Earth's climate system than previously suspected for both the risks from deforestation and the potential gains from regrowth, a benchmark study released Thursday has shown. The study, published in Science, provides the most accurate measure so far of the amount of gree...

Wood products part of winning carbon-emissions equation, researchers say

Posted by Aaron on Monday, 18 July 2011 in Forestry

Trees absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to grow, so forests have long been proposed as a way to offset climate change. But rather than just letting the forest sit there for a hundred or more years, the amount of carbon dioxide taken out of the atmosphere could be quadrupled in 100 years by ...

Too Slow on Saving Tropical Forests

Posted by plantitfilm on Friday, 10 June 2011 in Forestry

All but seven percent of the world's tropical forests are “managed poorly or not at all” despite efforts to boost sustainability, according to a major report released Tuesday.Forces driving forest destruction across four continents – including rising food and fuel prices, and growing demand ...

Sustainable Forests Working Worldwide

Posted by grant on Friday, 10 June 2011 in Forestry

A study of the world’s forests has found a 50 per cent rise in sustainably managed tropical woodlands since 2005, helped by rising demand in developed countries for certified wood and UN programmes to reduce carbon emissions. The International Tropical Timber Organisation, an intergovernmen...

Our forests are our future

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 19 November 2010 in Forestry

Next year, 2011, will be the UN's International Year of Forests, aiming to strengthen the sustainable management of forests for the benefit of current and future generations. It would be a tragic legacy for the government if it marked this year by starting to sell off lar...

Rainforest loss slows

Posted by davebishop on Thursday, 07 October 2010 in Forestry

Deforestation rates in tropical countries dropped significantly during the first decade of the 21st century relative to the 1990s, reveals new data released by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). FAO figures show deforestation across 121 tropical countries averaged 9....

Shell funding of forest protection scheme could result in 'largest land grab of all time'

Posted by ep-admin on Thursday, 09 September 2010 in Forestry

Oil giant's investment in Indonesian REDD conservation project is a crude attempt to increase profit and gloss over its expanding oil drilling operations, say campaigners Indigenous Peoples and environmental groups have accused oil giant Shell of funding a forest protection scheme for profit and to...

Waves of Deforestation Across East Africa

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 22 August 2010 in Forestry

A new study co-authored by a World Wildlife Fund scientist documents waves of forest degradation advancing like ripples in a pond 75 miles across East Africa in just 14 years. Scientists from 12 organizations in Europe, Africa and the US demonstrated that forest exploita...

Saving Our Forests

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 30 May 2010 in Forestry

All over the world, more premium is being placed on the conservation of forests and the planting of tress in order to preserve both fauna and flora. It is not for nothing that it is usually stated that “when the last tree dies, the last man dies”. Scientists are quick to explain that one of the imp...

10 countries are responsible for 87% of global deforestation

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 23 May 2010 in Forestry

Deforestation causes up to 1/5 of current greenhouse gas emissions from human activity.After including their forest emissions, Brazil and Indonesia are, respectively, the world’s 4th and 5th largest greenhouse gas emitters. Reducing rates of deforestation can be one effective way of cutting gre...

Happy Earth Day: Court Rules Against Environmentalists, Approves Timber Sales In National Forest

Posted by plantitfilm on Tuesday, 21 April 2009 in Forestry

Today is Earth Day, so it'd be bad karma to derail a Muni bus, toss plastic bags in the ocean, or randomly scatter wads of used chewing gum on the sidewalks (in fact, these are always bad karma). But the U.S. government can cut down its share of trees in a national forest, thanks to a ruling fr...

Common Vision Visit to Environmental Charter High School!

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 07 April 2009 in Forestry

On March 2, 2009, Common Vision visited Environmental Charter High School to promote the planting of fruit trees and recycling in artistic and upbeat ways. Common Vision and Green Ambassadors allied to plant fruit trees around the community of Lawndale. Groups of students and Common Vision members...