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Green Column: How Reliance on Trees Can Help Forests
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19.6.2013 |
International Herald Tribune: Business |
| Green Column: How Reliance on Trees Can Help Forests |
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Wildfire Task Force Considers Limits For Homeowners In Burn Zones
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18.6.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| As firefighting crews continue to tackle what has become the state's most destructive fire in Colorado history, a wildfire task force created by Governor John... |
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Activists Await New Climate Plan Before Filing EPA Lawsuit
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18.6.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON, June 17 (Reuters) - Environmental groups and a dozen states and cities said Monday they will delay planned legal action... |
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Sasha Lyutse: New Evidence That Cutting Forests to Burn for Electricity Is Even Worse for the Climate Than We Thought
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18.6.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Previous studies have focused on emissions of the carbon that's stored in above-ground biomass (i.e., tree trunks, limbs, etc.) when it burned in a power plant. A new study looked at the carbon stored deep in forest soils and what happens to it when forests are chopped down to supply biomass to energy companies. |
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Jake Schmidt: Break the Link between Deforestation & Commodities: New Opportunity for Obama to Act on Climate Change
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17.6.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| There is a new opportunity for the United States to curb deforestation and slow climate change. Deforestation accounts for around 15% of the world’s global... |
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Break the Link between Deforestation & Commodities: A New Opportunity for the Obama Administration to Act on Climate Change
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17.6.2013 |
Switchboard, from NRDC |
| Jake Schmidt, International Climate Policy Director, Washington, DC:
This post was co-written with Cecilia Springer of Climate Advisers. There is a new opportunity for the United States to curb deforestation and slow climate change. Deforestation accounts for around 15% of the world’s global warming pollution – so any... |
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Logging may destabilize carbon in forest soils
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15.6.2013 |
Environmental News Network |
Logging in temperate zones may release more greenhouse gases than previously thought by destabilizing carbon stored in forest soils, argues a new paper published in the journal Global Change Biology-Bioenergy. The research involved analysis of carbon released from forest management practices in the northeastern United States. It found that while most models assume carbon stored in mineral soils to be relatively stable, in fact intensive logging operations, like clear-cutting, trigger release of carbon from various pools above and below ground. |
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New evidence that cutting forests to burn for electricity is even worse for the climate than we thought
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14.6.2013 |
Switchboard, from NRDC |
| Sasha Lyutse, Policy Analyst, New York:
Burning our forests for electricity is a bad idea—bad for our climate, bad for local ecosystems, and bad for our communities. But a new study just out of Dartmouth College shows that it might be even worse than we thought.... |
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Bats And Man: Our Love-Hate Relationship
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14.6.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| NEW YORK -- A projected image of baby bats swaddled in blankets earned a collective "awww" from the audience. It apparently came as a welcome... |
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Military launches heavy equipment, aircraft in Black Forest firefight
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14.6.2013 |
Denver Post: News: Local |
| Military launches heavy equipment, aircraft in Black Forest firefight |
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Elk River Road to see up to eight log trucks daily
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14.6.2013 |
Steamboat Pilot |
| A logging operation targeting roadside hazard trees will also cause the closure of the last mile of Forest Road 315 on Rabbit Ears Pass beginning this week and continuing for two weeks. |
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Indigenous People Confront Industry on Sarawak Dams
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13.6.2013 |
International Rivers Sitewide RSS Feed |
| By:
Zachary Hurwitz and Kirk Herbertson
Date:
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
The Malaysian state of Sarawak, located on the island of Borneo, is rich with tropical forests bisected by powerful rivers. Five years ago, Sarawak’s authoritarian ruler Abdul Taib Mahmud announced that he will “transform Sarawak into a developed state” by building 12 large dams, mostly to power neighboring states. The forests are home to tens of thousands of indigenous people who have suffered human rights abuses for decades as Taib’s government has seized native lands for the benefit of his family’s timber and palm oil companies.
When the International Hydropower Association (IHA) decided to hold its biennial congress in Sarawak, indigenous people mobilized to ensure that visiting companies and investors learned the truth about the Sarawak dams.
Unprecedented Protest
On May 22, 300 Penan, Kenyah, Kayan, and Iban indigenous people arrived at the meeting site by bus from their longhouses in ... |
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Steve Horn: Frackademia: University of Tennessee Set to Lease Forest for Fracking, Enriching Governor's Family
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12.6.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| "Frackademia" is usually thought of as "studies" conducted by university-based "frackademic" researchers and funded by Big Oil. But UT-Knoxville has taken the game to a whole new level, leasing off land it owns so that it can study "best practices" for fracking in the Volunteer State. |
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Is logging in the Pinelands drawing near?
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12.6.2013 |
Philly.com News |
| New Jersey is looking to open up logging on state lands, most of which were largely acquired through Green Acres bond issues and other public funds. |
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Solar-powered smartphones to be used to monitor rainforest for illegal logging
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11.6.2013 |
TreeHugger |
Could the ubiquitous gadget of modern life help to protect rainforests in remote areas from illegal logging? |
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Is Logging the Pinelands Just a Vote and Signature Away?
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11.6.2013 |
Philly.com News |
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Who Owns The Forest?
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10.6.2013 |
Union of Concerned Scientists |
| A UCS white paper identifies two new contradictory trends in land tenure. |
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States taking fight to green-building leader in defense of locally produced timber
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10.6.2013 |
Star Tribune: Nation |
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PHOTO: The Cutest Sloth Of The Week
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9.6.2013 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| Last week, we wrote about Monique Pool, a woman in Suriname who rescued 200 sloths after cattle farmers destroyed their forest home in the Guiana... |
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States fight green-building leader over local wood
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9.6.2013 |
Twincities.com: Nation |
| SAVANNAH, Ga.—A building supplier phoned Pollard Lumber Co. about providing wood for a large government construction project in Georgia, but |
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