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The paper products emit nearly 80% less CO2 and use 15 less water than traditional paper.
This goes to show that if politicians really want to, they can protect the rainforests.
Researchers quantified emissions and uptake from degraded and deforested in Asia, finding more reasons to fight deforestation.
It's a very slight change for a huge payoff. It's also quite tasty!
Some big fashion names are responsible for deforestation.
If legislation passes, it would be a huge move.
It won't be easy, but there are reasons to be helpful.
Hurray, we did it... wait, that's bad?
Overall though, deforestation rates remain high throughout the world.
It was the third-worst year since 2002, when reliable monitoring began.
That coffee you are drinking might be linked to deforestation.
Indigenous communities can help protect the forests but are highly challenged by extractive industries
Deforestation leads to infection, and we've all seen what infectious diseases can cause
Anyone know how I can get a job as a policymaker?
Millions rely on tropical forests in Africa, such as the Guinean Forests. Thanks to satellites, they can be easier protected.
A total 4,281 square miles of forest were cleared in the 12 months leading to August.
An accessible health clinic for communities in Indonesia helped bring down local deforestation rates.
Brazilian President under pressure amid rise of forest fires
The smoke from the forest fires could pile on the burden caused by the pandemic.
Satellite data shows that 2019 was the third most devastating year since the turn of the century.
Its a bad time to be a tree.
The rate of deforestation rose by 55% in the first four months of the year compared to 2019.
Twice the amount of emissions come from young plants than mature plantations.
Deforestation for agriculture is the leading cause of man-made landscape shifts.
The region could turn into a savanna in just a few decades
All in all, some 563 square kilometers (217 square miles) of forest were cut down in November.
Not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but generally, don't trust the government when your country is burning.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is again under the spotlight after this year's forest fires
The inga tree can grow in very poor soil and improve it
If the consumption of meat and dairy doesn’t fall, at least one-quarter of the world’s tropical lands could disappear by the end of the century.
We all know smoking is bad for our health but not a lot of people are aware of the hidden environmental costs of the tobacco industry.
Instead, they now release around 8% of global emissions.
Talk about pulling your weight!
It's up to us, the consumers, to make a difference.
The Amazon basin is home to the world's great biodiversity. You'll find more plant and animal species per square foot than anywhere else in the world. It's truly one of the wildest and life teeming places in the universe, which given humans' habit of meddling makes it one of the most vulnerable as well. The huge 6-million-square-kilometer rainforest area remains mostly unstudied, due to the roughness and inaccessibility of the land. But making their way through the outskirts are the chainsaws and sawmills; and they're moving fast. Since 2000 an area equal to 50 football pitches has been destroyed every minute in the Amazon rainforest, satellite imagery revealed.
Motivated by the love for their native lands and armed with bows, arrows, GPS trackers and camera traps, an indigenous community in northern Brazil is fighting to achieve what officials couldn't - stop illegal logging in their part of the Amazon.
Recently, we wrote an article about the biggest tree census ever conducted, and the results were pretty grim. Sure, there are some 3 trillion trees on Earth, but the bad news is that there used to be almost twice as many – before humans chipped in. Humanity has cut down 46% of the planet’s trees, […]
Today, the Earth has approximately 3 trillion trees left standing - about 422 per person - but we've already cut 46% of them.
When drugs are imported into the United States, the people responsible aren't just damaging human lives; they may also be wreaking havoc on the environment. The illegal drug industry is harmful to nature in ways the average person may have never realized; let’s take a look at how this happens.
Norway will pay impoverished African country Liberia $150m (£91.4m) to entirely stop deforestation by 2020. Liberia is one of the poorest countries in the world, and its economy is extremely underdeveloped. Mix this current situation with the recent Ebola outbreak, and you get a recipe for disaster. Logging is a simple source of revenue in such […]
Researchers from the University of Michigan and University College London have found that trees in the Amazon forest will be able to withstand even the most dreaded of forecasted global warming scenarios from a century from now, after they showed they’ve withstood the test of time. The researchers found that most tree species had been around for millions of […]
This is truly one of the days when you could feel ashamed to be human. According to reports, loggers in Brazil captured an 8 year old girl from one of the Amazon’s last tribes and burned her alive, in an attempt to force tribes out of the territory. Indigenous people from the Amazonian basin have […]
Humanity seems determined to continue on a suicidal path and destroy much of the planet that surrounds us; so far we’ve been lucky, but if we continue in this line, we have a good chance of breaking the very fragile equilibrium our world has. In almost every forest, carbon is constantly being absorbed as trees […]
Of all the despicable things I thought possible going on around the Amazonian Rainforrest, using an extremely powerful chemical agent on the forest would’ve never crossed not even the darkest region of my conscious. It’s indeed petrifying what the human mind can conjure up for profit. Agent Orange is the chemical in question, and is […]
It’s a black period for Brazil’s environment, and things will get even worse in days to follow; the government just applied a reform of the forestry code which will make it extremely easy to cut down massively on the rainforests in Brazil. Money money money After several delays and a desperate, but outnumbered resistance, the […]
Ethiopian authorities announced that thanks to large-scale reforestation campaigns the forest cover of their country has tripled since 2000. The African country has suffered from severe droughts in the past, and their solution to this problem turned out to be just great. “Ethiopia was able to increase its forest coverage to nine percent now from […]
The city administration of Balikpapan (in East Kalimantan) has issued a new rule which will definitely please those interested in our planet’s “health”. Each couple has to plant a tree before they can marry. Basically, if don’t plant a tree, you don’t get the marriage license. “We have made it mandatory for those wanting to […]
