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19/5/2013
Ask Sreap Samoen where are the communal grazing lands? Where can local villagers fish and grow crops? The 50-year-old woman with a weather-beaten face points into the distance and says: "It's all gone. The company has it now."She's ...
16/5/2013
As Peru's legislature debates the merits of building the Purús highway through the Amazon rainforest, a new
report by Global Witness alleges that the project has been aggressively pushed by those with a financial stake in opening up the remote ...
12/5/2013
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has evicted Indonesian palm oil giant Dutapalma Nusantara for violating key principles for sustainability.
Dutapalma Nusantara, which is also known as Darmex Agro or Duta Palma, was found to ...
12/5/2013
Indonesian palm oil giant Golden Agri-Resources (GAR) is continuing to reduce
deforestation under its 2011 forest conservation policy despite ongoing forest destruction by other palm oil producers in the sector, finds a new assessment by ...
12/5/2013
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Deutsche Bank are financing Vietnamese rubber companies driving a wave of land and forest "grabs" in Cambodia and Laos, according to a new
report and film by Global Witness.
The
report, ...
12/5/2013
Two Vietnamese firms bankrolled by Deutsche Bank and the International Finance Corporation – the World Bank's private lending arm – are leading a wave of land grabs in Cambodia and Laos, causing widespread evictions, illegal logging and food ...
11/5/2013
While the planet hurtles inexorably toward catastrophic climate change, progress in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through carbon capture and storage (CCS) is moving at a glacial pace, an international symposium on CCS was told here ...
9/5/2013
Prince Charles has attacked corporate lobbyists and climate change sceptics for turning the Earth into a "dying patient", making his most outspoken criticism yet of the world's failure to tackle global warming just when the heir to the throne is ...
8/5/2013
The hula-hoop first caught on in the US state of California, as did crack cocaine. For better or worse, that's where trends originate before they sweep the nation and, often, the world. So it's apropos that California is closely engaging with the ...
7/5/2013
As the two-year moratorium on
deforestation faces expire, Indonesia has launched its first forest governance index to address the current state of forest protection and management of central and provincial government.
"Good forest ...
2/5/2013
Five Asian countries have lost nearly one-third of their forests in the last 35 years and could be left with little more than 10-20% of their original cover by 2030 – with devastating effects on wildlife and humans, a new
report ...
30/4/2013
Systematic abuse of small, poorly regulated logging permits in Africa by companies, forest officials and politicians is undermining efforts to fight
deforestation and keep illegal timber out of the EU, says a new
report by Global ...
25/4/2013
When you go to the grocery store and you buy a bag of chips, a chocolate bar, crackers, ice-cream, doughnuts, frozen snacks or other candy, you may see a label on the products saying ‘RSPO Certified Sustainable Palm Oil’ or ‘Green Palm ...
25/4/2013
Rising levels of greenhouse gas emissions and
deforestation caused by metal production must be urgently addressed, a new
report from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) warns.
Demand for metals is expected to rise tenfold as emerging ...
24/4/2013
A major Indonesian palm oil producer continues to clear rainforests in Sumatra despite being a prominent member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), casting doubts on the body's effectiveness in limiting
deforestation, alleges a new ...
24/4/2013
Hundreds of hectares of rainforest and tiger habitat protected under the Indonesian government’s moratorium have been destroyed, revealed Greenpeace International, following an investigation into Duta Palma, a notorious Indonesian palm oil ...
23/4/2013
It is estimated that 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface area is made up of oceans,1 the most productive habitat, comprising 75 per cent of all known species. This unique environment, which remains generally unexplored and hidden from the world, ...
19/4/2013
A new global-scale modeling study that takes into account nitrogen -- a key nutrient for plants -- estimates that carbon emissions from human activities on land were 40 percent higher in the 1990s than in studies that did not account for ...
18/4/2013
Beef and soya products from Brazil accounted for a third of carbon emissions associated with
deforestation between 1990-2010, scientists say.
They warn that the UN`s Reducing Emissions from
Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) ...
17/4/2013
The notion of "externalities" has become familiar in environmental circles. It refers to costs imposed by businesses that are not paid for by those businesses. For instance, industrial processes can put pollutants in the air that increase public ...
16/4/2013
A national climate change plan is nowhere in sight from Congress, and last week the Obama administration pushed back a deadline to crack down on power plant emissions. But despite those--and many other--familiar setbacks, a new
report has found ...
15/4/2013
Coal-fired power generation in Asia and cattle ranching in South America are the most damaging businesses for nature with hidden costs that exceed the value of their production, a U.N.-backed
report said on Monday.
Global output of basic ...
12/4/2013
In Haiti, a simple spring shower that would barely be noticed in most countries can cause devastating floods, due to the severe
deforestation and erosion that impedes the absorption of rain.
And the increasing frequency and intensity of ...
10/4/2013
A curtain of sound envelops the two researchers as they make their way along the side of a mountain in darkness, occasionally hacking their way with a machete to reach the mouth of a small cave.
Peeps, tweets and staccato whistles fill ...
9/4/2013
World Resources Institute (WRI) today unveiled a long-awaited tool that could revolutionize global forest monitoring,
reports the UN Forum on Forests, which is meeting this week in Istanbul, Turkey.
Global Forest Watch 2.0 is a platform ...