Poland's environment ministry has a plan for a huge increase in logging in Europe's last great primeval forest, writes Zachary Davies Boren. Officials claim it's to control bark beetles. But ecologists say the insects are regulated naturally within the forest ecosystem, while logging threatens huge damage to irreplaceable biodiversity.
… 2016 News Forests Biodoversity Ecology UNESCO Poland Belarus EU Law … One of Europe's oldest forests is under threat from a new logging initiative … Environment Ministry. Bialowieza Forest, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that spans 1,600 …
ExxonMobil has long known that climate change is real and dangerous, write Louise Rouse & Naomi Ages, while denying it in public and supporting climate change deniers. Now they accuse their critics of 'chilling' climate science and the search for solutions. The truth is the precise opposite.
… The truth is the precise opposite. Exxon is under pressure - and it's not only because of … this week to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their climate deceptions. The idea … heft - on climate change - once seemed unimaginable. Maybe it's that …