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19/5/2013
When Californians passed AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act, we committed to one of the most forward-thinking pieces of climate legislation in the country, with comprehensive strategies to reduce carbon emissions from nearly all sectors of ...
22/4/2013
Marina Silva is what the enlightened future was supposed to look like. Smart, determined, effective and focused on indigenous culture, education and environmental conservation, the former minister and presidential candidate was once a symbol of ...
17/4/2013
Ecologist Thomas Lovejoy tucks his trousers into his socks with a casual warning about chiggers and then hikes off into the
Amazon jungle. Shaded by a tall canopy and dense with ferns and underbrush, the old-growth forest looks healthy, but ...
12/4/2013
One icy morning in February, a train pulled into Washington DC. It was loaded with environmentalists planning to handcuff themselves to the gates of the White House, in protest at the building of a 3,500km oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf of ...
31/3/2013
This spring could be the most miserable one ever for those of us with allergies, and we can blame it on climate change.
People in the Northeast, in particular, will be among the hardest hit in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and this ...
29/3/2013
Using the REDD+ mechanism to fight deforestation and climate change involves a complicated and lengthy process that crosses over several sectors. Because of its complex nature, Valentino Shal of the Mopan Maya Indigenous people says ...
27/3/2013
Areas in the
Amazon where there is conflict over land tenure have higher deforestation rates than places where land rights are secure, finds a new study that assesses the effectiveness of indicators used to gauge the success of
protected areas in ...
10/3/2013
Chiapas, Mexico's southernmost state, is a remote frontier, the gateway to Mayan ruins, chilly highland forests and steamy rain forest jungle.
Americans, however, might be acquainted with it more for the ubiquitous "Chia Pet" (remember ...
4/3/2013
In the last 15 years 200,000 hectares of the Mau Forest in western Kenya have been converted to agricultural land. Previously called a “water tower” because it supplied water to the Rift Valley and Lake Victoria, the forest region has dried up; ...
31/12/2012
2012 was another year of mixed news for the world's tropical forests. This is a look at some of the most significant tropical rainforest-related news stories for 2012.
There were many other important stories in 2012 and some were ...
3/9/2012
Canada's Mackenzie River basin needs better
protection as a vast northern "refrigerator" slowing global climate change, experts said on Monday.
Canada's longest river also needs a unifying plan to oversee water quality, wildlife and oil ...
27/7/2012
A new regional initiative will help 10 central African countries to set up advanced national forest monitoring systems, FAO announced on Thursday. The 10 countries are part of the Congo Basin and include Burundi, Cameroon, Central African ...
30/5/2012
Less than 45 years ago, the Paiter-Suruí, an indigenous people living deep inside the
Amazon rainforest in Brazil, had never been in contact with the outside world. Today they hope to ensure their survival through the complex mechanisms of the ...
14/5/2012
As Brazil braces for president Dilma Rousseff`s forthcoming decision on whether to sign or veto recent legislation that would alter the country`s Forest Code, rights groups are decrying a surge in illegal land grabs that is wrecking environmental ...
10/5/2012
Last year researchers took the first ever publicly-released video of an African golden cat (Profelis aurata) in a Gabon rainforest. This beautiful, but elusive, feline was filmed sitting docilely for the camera and chasing a bat. The least-known ...
19/4/2012
Africa’s forests are fast diminishing to the detriment of climate, biodiversity, and millions of people of dependent on forest resources for their well-being. But is the full conservation of Africa's forests necessary to mitigate global climate ...
15/4/2012
The UN-REDD Programme is trying to unite economic and environmental interests in the deforestation debate by encouraging a sustainable industry.
Deforestation in the Atlantic Forest near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The global rate ...
10/4/2012
Brazil is investing billions to build 20 hydroelectric plants in the
Amazon with power lines to faraway cities. The project will flood rainforests 107 times the size of Manhattan, displace thousands from their ancestral lands and send the country ...
10/3/2012
When the United Nations process on climate change unveiled the program known as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) three years ago, it was hailed by its architects as “an effort to create a financial value for the ...
28/1/2012
Look back on 2011 and you’ll notice a destructive trail of extreme weather slashing through the year. In Texas, it was the driest year ever recorded. An epic drought there killed half a billion trees, touched off wildfires that burned four ...
24/1/2012
Brazil has made great strides in recent years in slowing
Amazon deforestation and showing the world it was serious about
protecting the mammoth rain forest.The rate of deforestation fell by 80 percent over the past six years, as the ...
17/1/2012
A proposed mechanism to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by
protecting tropical forests has evolved considerably since it started to gain momentum during the 2005 climate talks in Montreal. Known then as "avoided deforestation", the concept was ...
28/12/2011
2011 was designated as "Year of the Forests" by the United Nations. While there was relatively little progress on intergovernmental forest
protection programs during the year, a lot happened elsewhere. Below is a look at some of the biggest ...
19/12/2011
Brazil, caretaker of the world's largest rain forest, is about to enact broad new regulations that opponents say could loosen restrictions on
Amazon deforestation and increase the country's greenhouse gas emissions.
The move comes after ...
30/11/2011
UN Climate Forest Conservation Spawns 'Carbon Piracy' in Peru Environment News Service (ENS)
UN Climate Forest Conservation Spawns 'Carbon Piracy' in Peru
DURBAN, South Africa, November 30, 2011 (ENS) - A new UN-backed effort ...