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18/5/2013
Satellite analysis by a Brazil-based NGO indicates that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon continues to pace well ahead of last year, when the government passed a weakened version of its
law governing use of
forest lands.
Imazon's ...
17/5/2013
In a landmark ruling, Indonesia's Constitutional Court has invalidated the Indonesian government's claim to millions of hectares of
forest land, potentially giving indigenous and local communities the right to manage their customary
forests, ...
13/5/2013
Our leaders have fought with the Government many times, but they must be deaf or they just don't respect us
The Yaquerana River in the Amazon rainforest marks the border between Peru and Brazil, but to the Matsés tribe, who live on both ...
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, ...
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 ...
5/5/2013
An Indonesian court has ruled in favor of plantation company PT Kallista Alam in a
lawsuit brought against the governor of Indonesia’s Aceh province for revoking the company’s license to develop palm oil plantations in a protected peat swamp ...
27/4/2013
As the great research ship Chikyu left Shimizu in January to mine the explosive ice beneath the Philippine Sea, chances are good that not one of the scientists aboard realized they might be closing the door on Winston Churchill’s world. Their ...
25/4/2013
- Bordered by a rubber plantation in the west, a
forestry plantation in the east and a palm oil farm in the south, the 18 local communities that live in Ocean Division, southern Cameroon, have had an uphill struggle for the rights to their ...
19/4/2013
Indonesian palm oil companies would support land swaps as a means to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation while simultaneously expanding production, representatives from the country's largest association of palm oil producers told ...
18/4/2013
Chevron Corp. (CVX) helped write the first-in-the-nation rule ordering reduced carbon emissions from cars and trucks. Its biofuels chief spoke at the ceremony where California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the executive order in 2007, the ...
18/4/2013
The Minister of
Forestry, Zulkifli Hasan, once again asserted the commitment of Indonesia to ensure the implementation of the moratorium of primary natural and peat
forest conversion in the ministerial level conference's 10th United Nations Forum ...
18/4/2013
Life is about to get a whole lot harder for the slaughterhouses in Brazil who are still tied to a business model based on
forest destruction and violation of indigenous and labor rights.IBAMA, the Ministry of Labor, the Federal Public ...
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
An environmental case that has pitted Chevron against Ecuadorean Amazon villagers for two decades has taken another bizarre twist, with an American consulting firm now recanting research favorable to the villagers’ claims of pollution in remote ...
10/4/2013
Nascent carbon emissions-trading exchanges in several countries are increasingly looking at options to interlink with one another, which advocates say would offer investors long-term stability, increase revenues for the development of renewable ...
8/4/2013
Indonesia's Ministry of
Forestry will soon raise fees on
forest exploitation activities including logging, mining, and oil and gas exploration as part of an effort to increase income from resource use, reports The Jakarta Post.
The new ...
8/4/2013
An Amazonian community has threatened to "go to war" with the Brazilian government after what they say is a military incursion into their land by dam builders.
The Munduruku indigenous group in Para state say they have been betrayed by ...
7/4/2013
Last week, as some of us were heading off for the long holiday weekend (Easter is a holiday here in Brazil), the Brazilian government was quietly releasing deforestation trends showing an increase in deforestation for the first time in five ...
6/4/2013
While global warming is a topic of conversation and news coverage every day around the world,? ?the basic raw materials that drive the global economy are rarely discussed as being involved.? ?But these materials play a key role in global ...
4/4/2013
States to the North and West of Tennessee?Illinois, Ohio and Arkansas?are already fracked. Other surrounding states?Georgia, Alabama and Kentucky?are in the industry`s sights, and it feels like there`s a big bullseye painted on Tennessee. While ...
3/4/2013
An Amazonian community has threatened to "go to war" with the Brazilian government after a military incursion into their land by dam builders.
The Munduruku indigenous community in Para state say they have been betrayed by the ...
2/4/2013
Costa Rican Ambassador Alvaro Cedeno Molinari says his mission here is to deliver his country`s message on green growth and renewable energy -- and to develop what he describes as a green growth agenda between his country and Japan.
"My ...
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 ...
30/3/2013
More accurate data regarding the extent to which greenhouse gases stemming from human activity interplays with the balance of carbon stocks in Europe will soon be available to inform policies. But would that make a difference?
Forests ...
29/3/2013
The Army Corps of Engineer under
law is supposed to maintain the lower Snake River navigation channel at 14 feet deep and 250 feet wide. In the draft EIS, the Corps is proposing a long-term plan to manage, and prevent if possible, river sediment ...