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 …
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 revolution in remote monitoring should help solve environmental problems, but might it also increase our distance from the natural world?
… Knowles Martin Wright | 6th April 2012 News Forests Technology Investigations Pollution … from the natural world? Deep in the rainforests of eastern Cameroon, someone is moving … boundaries – and rights – lie in the remote forests. Now the data gathered on the ground …
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 …
Students, workers and civil rights activists gathered in their hundreds today in Delhi to protest at the mining company Vedanta, and the Indian government's support of highly destructive mining projects in forests and on indigenous peoples' lands.
… 2014 News Mining India Indigenous Peoples Forests Pollution Corporations … of highly destructive mining projects in forests and on indigenous peoples' lands. … of India in the Ministry of Environment and Forests investigated the bauxite mining …
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 …
A study in Torbay is the first time i-Tree software has been used in the UK to establish the true value of the 'urban forest' and raises questions over the effectiveness of smaller trees in absorbing carbon and pollutants
… to put a price on the stored carbon of rainforests, they could be missing the bigger …
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 …
Beijing is to plant trees over an area 200 times the size of Central Park in the city's latest effort to neutralise its choking pollution. But Jun Yang asks - how much will the trees really help, unless accompanied by drastic reductions in emissions?
… | 16th March 2014 Comment China Pollution Forests Cities beijing-tree-smog.png Beijing … of smog particles from urban areas. Urban forests can potentially decrease the strength … currently studying just how effective urban forests could be in Beijing. The initial …
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 …
Rio Tinto's QMM ilmenite mine in Madagascar has breached a legal buffer zone, exposing local people to “unacceptably high” environmental risks, a new study by the Andrew Lees Trust has found. YVONNE ORENGO and STEVEN EMERMAN report
Fears of radionuclide-enriched water pollution as Madagascar mining breaches legal limits Yvonne Orengo Dr Steven H Emerman | 3rd September 2018 News Pollution Radioactive Waste Mining Madagascar …
The US government has given he go-ahead for a test plot of genetically modified (GM) eucalyptus trees in Alabama. For the first time, these trees will be allowed to flower and set seed, opening the door to potential widespread contamination of the American South.
… (which ArborGen will not reveal) may impact forests and wildlife. Another problem ignored … spread to non-GM trees, leading to sterile forests. Bt trees, in which a pesticide is … raises the prospect of disastrously weakened forests unable to cope with increasingly …
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 …
The discovery of oil in Uganda was a blessing to the impoverished East African country. But before the oil has even started pumping, disputes over tax, accusations of corruption and fears for the environment plague the sector. Alice Klein reports from Hoima
… of Uganda and Congo, and the surrounding forests and waterfalls. The World Bank has … people battle oil giants as Belize's rainforests threatened Forest communities are …
Ebola has wiped out a third of chimps and gorillas since the 1990s, writes Meera Inglis, and together with hunting and deforestation is pushing them towards extinction. So why haven't we even used a safe, effective Ebola vaccine developed for chimps and gorillas?
Ebola is killing chimps and gorillas too - now we must save them! Meera Inglis | 29th January 2015 Comment Health Primates Extinction Africa mtn-gorilla-uganda-cut.jpg Ebola has wiped out a third of …
The increase in meat and dairy consumption is set to cause huge increases in greenhouse gases, reports Tim Radford. A shift to less animal-based diets would cut greenhouse gases, conserve forests and grasslands - and make us all healthier, with reduced obesity, diabetes and associated conditions.
… diets would cut greenhouse gases, conserve forests and grasslands - and make us all … would be reduced; reduced pressure to clear forests and savannah for farmland, so … the destruction of an area of tropical forests and savannahs of an area half as large …
Rural people living on the frontline of Rio Tinto’s QMM mine in southern Madagascar are seeing their rights ignored, their lives and livelihoods devastated.
… a biodiversity offsetting programme on forests some 50km north of the mine at … who have depended for generations on the forests and lands for food and livelihoods, …