Ten-year project will look at whether setting-aside natural forests within oil palm plantations can save threatened species such as the Orang-utan, Pygmy Elephant and Clouded Leopard
… from Indonesia and Malaysia. Decades of logging and now plantations in both countries … has sold its investment in one Malaysian logging and palm oil company but remains a big …
This month wood pellet mills in the southern US that supply the UK's Drax power station were awarded 'sustainability' certificates under a voluntary scheme governed entirely by energy companies. The certificates provide no credible guarantee that the fuel does not come from ecologically valuable natural forests and wetlands, clear-cut and replaced by industrial plantations.
… all of the carbon emissions associated with logging as well as burning biomass, and there … as "Green Diamond's aggressive clearcut logging, their legacy of toxic pollution, … spent a total of just seven hours inspecting logging operations across two overlapping …
Biofuelwatch warn of an unfolding 'biomassacre' as the UK is set to rely on a growing amount of wood-based biomass, driving landgrabbing, replacing old growth forests with plantations, destroying biodiversity and causing air pollution
… many parts of Scandinavia, old growth forest logging and other highly destructive logging has been documented and appears to be …
We, the signatories of this declaration, are calling on the European Union (EU) to exclude bioenergy from its next Renewable Energy Directive (RED), and thereby stop direct and indirect subsidies for renewable energy from biofuels and wood-burning.
… tree plantations, and of industrial logging. These industrial activities deplete …
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 …
Not all of us could raise £2.5m by selling the junk in our attics. But that's what the Chatsworth Estate achieved in 2010 - and now the money is funding a major renewable energy expansion.
Chatsworth: attic junk to renewable energy centre The Ecologist | 4th December 2013 News Renewable Energy Biomass Biofuels Not all of us could raise £2.5m by selling the junk in our attics. But …
The UK imports millions of tons of American wood pellets every year to be burned in power stations for 'climate friendly' electricity, writes Matt Williams. But his recent visit to the southern US showed him that this practice is devastating beautiful, natural forests rich in wildlife - while the UK government's own research shows that it's worse for the climate than the coal it replaces.
Dirtier than coal: burning forests for 'green' energy Matt Williams | 19th July 2016 News Energy Climate Change Forests Emissions US UK EU Biofuels stumps-cut.jpg The UK imports millions of tons of …
Our attempts to adapt to, and mitigate, the effects of climate change, such as using biofuels, could worsen the direct effects of climate change on our ecoystems
… sand and gravel extraction, increased logging, and siting of new housing in …
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?
… of the substantial carbon emissions linked to logging forests, and all the fossil fuels …
Forests should not have to do the work previously performed by fossil fuels.
Forest fuels: putting trees to work? James Palmer | 27th August 2019 News South America Bioenergy Biofuels Wood Pellets Thought Leaders 32780794312_878da5a7cd_b.jpg Forests should not have to do the …
Living in the rainforest, tracking orangutans, protecting the swamp forest and fighting off swarms of mosquitos in 30 degree heat. For Matt Williams it was a childhood dream come true ...
… local University of Palangka Raya. Previous logging in the Sabangau forest has left behind …
Plant fuels can never meet our current and growing energy needs and, as Robin Maynard reports, adopting a ‘carbohydrate economy’ may prove disastrous for our farmers, our food supply and our future
… forest loss in the world, and illegal logging is rife. The island of Borneo, divided …
Renewables good, fossil fuels bad... unless, of course, renewables begin to take up more and more land in order to meet our energy needs. Paul Kingsnorth adds fuel to a tricky debate.
… and Malaysia will be no more. Illegal logging has been going on there for decades, …