Photo: Ibama. We're talking about deforestation in the Amazon all the time, but can we really understand the magnitude of what we're saying? This is where an image is worth a thousand words: this is how a 15 tons, 40 meters tall, ¡250! years of age, fallen tree from the Amazon looks like. According to Read the full story on TreeHugger [ Read More ]
photo: Ventura via flickr Current rates of deforestation in the Amazon will have markedly less impact on the number of plant species to likely go extinct by mid-century, new research shows. Rather than the 20-33% predicted by some studies scientists from Wake Forest University say that 5-9% of species are likely to be extinct, [ Read More ]
photo: mattmangum via flickr The full impact of deforestation on global carbon emissions is only now (finally) becoming more widely acknowledged (about 20% of global emissions) and strategies envisioned to stop or at least slow the destruction. However, as a new report from The Nature Conservancy points out, land use changes causing degradation of the carbon storage capacity can not only lead to deforestation, but have a large global warming impact all... [ Read More ]
Photos via GreenWood.org During my time in Ecuador in 2007, apart from reporting on Kallari chocolate, and interviewing Daryl Hannah and David de Rothschild, I also reported on EcoMadera, a company work... [ Read More ]
photo: James Gagen via flickr. Orangutans in Indonesia just can't catch a break. The latest instance is that the only area in which orangutans have been successfully reintroduced into the wild is under threat from logging operations planned by Asian Pulp & Paper and the Sinar Mas Group:... [ Read More ]
