Are we risking serious problems if action to tackle deforestation assumes that a tonne of tree carbon is the same as a tonne of fossil carbon?
All carbon is not born equal Eric Marx | 17th November 2009 News Climate Change Natural World Redd Deforestation Forests Trees oiltree.jpg Are we risking serious problems if action to tackle …
You can turn it into everything from fuel to plastics. But will the surge in demand for sugar end up having a serious environmental impact?
Will sugar be the oil of the 21st century? Matilda Lee | 1st December 2009 News Investigations Sugarcane Brazil Agro-Ecological Zoning President Lula Friends Of The Earth Bioplastics Biofuels Carbon …
Tension is mounting in one of the remotest regions in the Peruvian Amazon over plans to build a highway through the country's biggest national park
Amazon 'uncontacted' tribes at risk from new highway plan David Hill | 19th January 2012 News Amazon Tribes Natural World Deforestation Peru tribe2.jpg The Mashco-Piro tribe is believed to live in …
Just as biofuels have gobbled up farmland that should have been growing food so the push on biomass by Monsanto, Cargill and others will see an 'unprecedented' grab on land, plants and biodiverse-rich forests
Biomass is the next biofuel 'land grab' on tropical forests, warn campaigners Tom Levitt | 5th December 2011 News Biomass Biofuels Monsanto Tropical Deforestation Natural World sugarcane.jpg …
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
… Ravinder Sehgal, associate professor of biology at San Francisco State University, …
Europe did not light the fires ravaging the Amazon, but it did provide some of the matches.
Europe can help save the Amazon by changing itself Khaled Diab | 10th September 2019 News Amazon Rainforest EU Deforestation Trade Thought Leaders amazonburning.jpg Europe did not light the fires …
Alarming new research reveals human activity is 'devastating' plant life ahead of UN biodiversity summit, with up to twenty-two per cent of the world’s plants facing extinction
Plant life in peril - IUCN and Kew Gardens study Dearbhla Crosse | 29th September 2010 News Biodiversity Red List Index Natural World Plants Deforestation cycad.jpg Alarming new research reveals …
The loss of birds could significantly impact efforts to combat deforestation, according to research from scientists looking at species across the Brazilian Amazon. LAURA BRIGGS reports
Scientists highlight the critical role of birds in forest regeneration Laura Briggs | 16th January 2017 News Amazon Forest Conservation Deforestation image 2_white-tailed cotinga_alexander lees_.jpg …
Norway's $1 billion of anti-deforestation funding to Indonesia is nothing short of amazing. But we should watch very carefully to see whether the money reaches the right pockets...
I applaud Norway's $1bn funding offer to Indonesia. But where will that money go? Professor William Laurance | 2nd July 2010 Comment Natural World Deforestation Indonesia Norway Redd Forestry …
Greenpeace's undercover investigation accused Asia Pulp and Paper's of flouting the logging ban on ramin trees in Indonesia, threatening the remaining population of Sumatran tigers. Greenpeace calls on you to urge companies to boycott APP products
… the Institute of Wood Technology and Wood Biology, University of Hamburg, was able to do …
More than 60 percent of Myanmar’s mangroves have been deforested in the last 20 years.
Mangrove deforestation rates increase Staff Reporter | 4th March 2020 News Science And Systems Mangrove Deforestation Myanmar screenshot_2020-03-03_at_16.52.03.png More than 60 percent of Myanmar’s …
Coffee brands' project aims to stop slash and burn farming by linking local reforestation to the international carbon market. Matilda Lee reports from Peru
Coffee farmers in Peru look to carbon market to fund climate adaptation Matilda Lee | 14th May 2012 News Climate Change Natural World Deforestation Carbon Market Carbon Credits Peru Cafedirect …
The world’s forests are natural carbon ‘sinks’ that remove and store atmospheric CO2. So why, in the name of saving the earth, asks Renton Righelato, are we cutting down these precious resources to make way for fuel crops?
Biofuels Report: Forests or Fuel Renton Righelato | 1st March 2007 News Biofuels Ethanol Biodiesel Crops Trees Deforestation Carbon Sinks Biofuel Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Deforestation Bio-fuels …
Ecosystems are buffering humanity against the worst impacts of global warming and also alleviating poverty, says United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Biodiversity crucial to lives of billions, says UNEP The Ecologist | 12th January 2010 News Biodiversity Natural World Wildlife Deforestation forests.jpg Forests protect against soil erosion, recycle …
This beautiful but deadly plant proliferates in lakes across Africa – choking everything in its path. Why, asks Tom Hargreaves, have all attempts to manage it failed?
The Water Hyacinth Tom Hargreaves | 1st October 2003 News Zimbabwe Industrial Agriculture Ponds Deforestation Dams Herbicides Mushrooms Mushroom Farming Biogas Agribusiness Pesticides Species …
New manufacturing technologies could revolutionise our food system, dramatically reducing it's environmental footprint.
Food without farming? Tim Thorpe | 24th January 2020 Comment Food And Farming Technology Science And Technology Land Use Climate Change Grazing Animal Farming Deforestation Sustainability Agriculture …
In the second in our series examining REDD we report how ambiguous forest definitions are putting the future success of forest protection schemes in doubt and allowing logging companies to destroy biodiverse habitats
Lack of forest definition ‘major obstacle’ in fight to protect rainforests Kara Moses | 20th October 2010 News Redd Natural World Deforestation Forest REALU ecuadorianrainforest.jpg Norway have …
Conservationists battling to save Indonesia's rainforests are locked in a dispute over moves to make oil palm plantations more wildlife-friendly. Tom Levitt reports
Can the palm oil we eat ever be wildlife-friendly? Tom Levitt | 12th July 2011 News Palm Oil Wildlife Biodiversity Rainforest Deforestation langurmonkey.jpg Only a fraction of the biodiversity found …
Our love affair with shrimp has fuelled the destruction of the 'rainforests of the sea' - mangroves - whose biodiversity and carbon-storing capacities are much undervalued. The author of 'Let Them Eat Shrimp', Kennedy Warne, talks through his alarming findings
Shrimp: luxury food with a hidden environmental price tag The Ecologist | 17th February 2012 Activism Food And Farming Shrimp Farming Marine Wildlife Aquaculture Mangroves Deforestation mangroves.jpg …
'35-40 percent of trees cut for industrial purposes become paper products.'
Are paper’s problems being palmed off? Natasha Foote | 27th November 2019 News International Palm Oil Paper Industry Amazon Deforestation Editor’s Picks deforestation_2074483b.jpg '35-40 percent of …
Shade-grown, hand picked coffee is one of Peru's biggest exports, but the country's smallholder farmers face sustained crop losses from extreme weather. Matilda Lee reports from Peru
Keeping our daily coffee: the farmers in Peru adapting to climate change Matilda Lee | 14th May 2012 News Food And Farming Climate Change Coffee Deforestation Carbon Credits Cafedirect 8peru2-62.jpg …
Western consumers are inadvertently driving the Sumatran elephant to extinction by eating, washing and wearing - in cosmetics - the derivatives of a fruit that is destroying the animal's last remaining forest habitat. Jim Wickens reports
Palm oil's forgotten victims: Sumatran elephants suffer in rush for 'liquid ivory' Jim Wickens | 30th June 2013 News Wildlife Natural World Food And Farming News Investigations Palm Oil Forests …