A fresh wave of logging is hitting America's national forests, writes Brett Haverstick. But this time it's all for the sake of 'forest health' and 'fire prevention'. It might look like industrial clear-cutting to you and me, but really, it's in a good cause. And if the forests and precious ecosystems they harbor just happen to perish in the process ... well ain't that just too bad?
… logging threatens US National Forests Brett Haverstick | 10th April 2017 Comment Forests Logging Health USA Commons Ecology … wave of logging is hitting America's national forests, writes Brett Haverstick. But this …
Peru's government is actively undermining indigenous peoples' efforts to protect their forests - by refusing to title 20 million hectares of their lands and turning a blind eye to illegal logging. At the same time it's handing out vast concessions for oil, gas, mining and timber exploitation, expanding palm oil production and planning 50 major forest-flooding dams.
… Programme | 8th December 2014 Activism Forests Indigenous Peoples Oil Gas Fossil … indigenous peoples' efforts to protect their forests - by refusing to title 20 million … despite public commitments to protect Peru's forests, the first Amazonian host of the UN …
The Gond tribe of Hasdeo Arand, the largest and oldest stretch of forest land in central India, is on the verge of losing its home in the face of coal mining.
… of June, women and children venture into the forests to get their hands on this local … cutter machines, cutting down his tribes own forests: “I used to feel horrible, the …
L'Oreal, the world's largest beauty and cosmetics company, has committed to remove forest destruction from its products by 2020.
… Ecologist | 30th January 2014 News Palm Oil Forests Indonesia Health borneo-orangutan.png … allow their suppliers six more years to clear forests" , said Bustar. "With global warming … New Guinea and Africa is already threatening forests, sparking controversy and conflict …
If you go down to the woods today (and stay at least until tomorrow) you're sure to come home feeling a whole lot better says Susan Clark, who recommends holing up in one of the UK's Forest Holidays' log cabins for a day or two ...
Forest Holidays: Happiness (Proven) Amongst The Trees Susan Clark | 27th June 2013 Ethical Living Natural World Health forestholidays.jpg 'Bathing' yourself in nature is scientifically proven to have …
The economic and climate-related impacts of forest destruction are well known, but continued logging could unleash devastating new pandemics and spread fatal diseases into the human population, scientists tell the Ecologist
… and economics are well known. Rainforests are also reservoirs for possible … need to stop destruction of the world's forests. In a series of exclusive interviews, … the Ecologist that if we don't keep remaining forests intact there is a danger that some of …
The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa had everything to do with logging, deforestation and the disruption of traditional agro-forestry by large scale industrial agriculture, writes Rob Wallace. The only long term solution to this terrible disease may lie in forest conservation, the restoration of agroecological farming systems, and the exclusion of agribusiness investment.
… July 2015 News Food Farming Ecology Health Forests Science conakry-guinea-cut.jpg The … and the Congo Basin, the two largest rainforests in the world. Palm oil represents a … and services for croplands, pastureland and forests. The maps show landscapes are …
The Drax power station in North Yorkshire is among Britain's greatest greenhouse gas emitters, writes Almuth Ernsting. Not only is it burning some 6 million tonnes of coal every year, it is also burning its way through forests in the USA and other countries as it converts to biomass-fired units, rewarded by £1.3 million a day in subsidies. Join the #AxeDrax protest this weekend!
… Emissions Energy Biofuels Fossil Fuels Coal Forests USA UK drax-cut.jpg The Drax power … year, it is also burning its way through forests in the USA and other countries as it … total annual production. Biodiverse wetland forests reduced to pellets Virtually all of …
According to the World Health Organisation, more than 30 serious new diseases have emerged in the last three decades. Mark Walters describes one of them, Lyme disease, and shows how our destruction of the environment is inextricably linked to its proliferation
… Infectious Diseases Farming Food Chain Forests Natural World Health … comparatively stable and biologically rich forests of the eastern United States. From … the unfortunate history of the US’s eastern forests, and it was connected to autumn oaks …
The Rampal coal power plant in Bangladesh, near the world's greatest mangrove forest, is a deeply misconceived project that must be abandoned, writes Johan Frijns in this Open Letter to the Exim Bank of India - which is planning to finance its construction. It would severely damage the precious local environment and wildlife, while adding to global climate change and sea level rise.
Exim Bank of India - stop support for the Rampal Coal Power plant! Johan Frijns Banktrack | 26th May 2016 Comment Climate Change Fossil Fuels Coal Bangladesh India Natural World Water Oceans …
It's not just people, animals and trees that suffer from radiation at Chernobyl, writes Rachel Nuwer, but also decomposer fungi and microbes. And with the buildup of dead wood comes the risk of catastrophic fire - which could spread radiation far and wide.
… Chernobyl's forests - dead wood and leaves preserved by … Nuwer Smithsonian | 24th March 2014 News Forests Ukraine Nuclear Power Radiation Health … study. "It was striking, given that in the forests where I live, a fallen tree is mostly …
The medical response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been monstrously inadequate, writes Richard Kock. But so has been recognition of the underlying causes - in particular the explosive spread of industrial oil palm, which disrupts the ecology of forests and farms, and undermines local economy and traditional governance, leading to a 'perfect storm' of disease.
… oil palm, which disrupts the ecology of forests and farms, and undermines local … where a similar trend of deep-cutting into forests for agricultural development has … Palm oil's relentless march at the expense of forests and health This is not unheard of; the …
Hundreds of millions of pounds meant to be spent on green energy will soon be lavished on Britain's biggest coal fired power station to reward it for burning 7 million tonnes of wood pellets a year - meant to be 'renewable' but actually driving biodiversity loss and even worse for climate change than coal. DECC must stop this madness!
… Coal Biofuels Renewables Fossil Fuels Forests UK USA Brazil … . Drax biomass demand ravaging biodiverse forests With three converted units, Drax would … biomass sourced from biodiverse hardwood forests in the southern US . In its recent …
A new coal and biomass-fired power station could soon be built at Drax in Yorkshire, already the UK's biggest coal burner, writes Almuth Ernsting. It comes with a weak promise of possible 'carbon capture and storage' - an expensive, inefficient technology shunned elsewhere. As the Government's nuclear dream fades, could this be its equally flawed replacement?
… coal power station since 1974 - and it burns forests too! Almuth Ernsting | 17th March 2015 … Fossil Fuels Biofuels UK Climate Change Forests USA louisiana-swamp-forest-cut.jpg A … carbon emissions linked to logging forests, and all the fossil fuels burnt to …
It's your chance to choose who's the worst of the six Big Biomass Baddies - the companies making a killing from burning forests in power stations. And please join us at the 'Biomess' Awards ceremony on Weds 9th April in London.
… Sophie Bastable | 7th April 2014 Activism Forests Energy Renewables Fossil Fuels … - the companies making a killing from burning forests in power stations. And please join us … we want to burn by 2020. This is threatening forests world-wide, for it is already …
As COP21 reaches its endgame, there are plans to build 2,440 coal-fired power plants around the world, write Mowdud Rahman & Greig Aitken. Their completion would send global temperatures, and sea levels, soaring. Yet Bangladesh, the world's most 'climate vulnerable' large country, has plans for a 1.3GW coal power plant on the fringes of its World Heritage coastal wetlands.
Coal plant threatens world's largest mangrove forest - and Bangladesh's future Mowdud Rahman Greig Aitken | 10th December 2015 News COP21 Climate Change Energy Fossil Fuels Coal Biodiversity …
The European Commission has reportedly given up on plans to raise the EU’s 2030 carbon emissions target.
Germany turns against action on climate change Zachary Boren | 5th October 2018 News Climate Change Unearthed European Commission Carbon Emissions Fossil Fuels x The European Commission has …
A massive decontamination exercise is under way in Iitate Village near Fukushima, writes Kendra Ulrich: step one in a plan to force 6,000 residents back into the evacuated zone in 2017. But as radiation levels remain stubbornly high, it looks like the real plan is to 'normalize' nuclear catastrophe, while making Iitate residents nuclear victims twice over - and this time, it's deliberate.
Japan and IAEA risk Fukushima victims' lives with forced return Kendra Ulrich Greenpeace Japan | 29th July 2015 News Nuclear Health Japan Un Politics iitate-earth-cut.jpg A massive decontamination …
London cyclists were protesting yesterday at the failure of all but a handful of London's 33 Boroughs to invest in safe cycle routes - and the many thousands of deaths that failure is causing. Donnachadh McCarthy reports.
Protesting the London Boroughs 'wall of death' Donnachadh McCarthy | 3rd April 2014 Comment Transport London UK Health wall-of-death-3.png London cyclists were protesting yesterday at the failure of …
A failure to act to reduce the impacts of climate change could cost Europe almost €200 billion and 200,000 lives a year, writes Tim Radford. These 'conservative estimates' are published in a new European Commission study.
… July 2014 News EU Climate Changes Flooding Forests Health sun-russian-smoke-cut.jpg A …
Evolutionary biologist Timothy Mousseau and his colleagues have published 90 studies that prove beyond all doubt the deleterious genetic and developmental effects on wildlife of exposure to radiation from both the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters, writes Linda Pentz Gunter. But all that peer-reviewed science has done little to dampen the 'official' perception of Chernobyl's silent forests as a thriving nature reserve.
… 'official' perception of Chernobyl's silent forests as a thriving nature reserve. Dr …
A decade ago, soya was being hailed as a superfood but in recent years, numerous issues surrounding deforestation and its impact on health have come to light
The dark side of soya: how one super crop lost its way Amy Hall | 1st May 2012 Ethical Living Soy Deforestation WWF Greenpeace Gm Soya Health Farming Food And Farming Climate Change Natural World …
Peter Bunyard on the battle against malaria, a fallen hero of the Colombian medical establishment and the mysterious fate of thousands of unique primates.
… Testing Colombia Conservation Diversity Forests Green Living Health MonkeyBig.jpg …