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Early logging photos show the taming — and tarnishing — of Washington state’s old-growth forests
Darius Kinsey documented turn of the century tree cutters in all their gritty glory
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Juice Company Dumped Orange Peels In A Deforested Area - Here's What It Looks Like After 16 Years
A couple of ecologists named Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs had an idea for a local orange juice company in Costa Rica — little did they know, their idea would lead to a discovery of a lifetime. In 1997, the pair approached the orange juice company and had a proposition for them. If they donated a piece of completely unspoiled, forested land to the Área de Conservación Guanacaste, then they could dump their discarded peels and pulp free of charge.
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These drones can plant 100,000 trees a day
Drones could fight deforestation by planting 1 billion trees a year.
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India’s forest and tree cover rises 1% since 2015
Forest and tree cover in India has increased by nearly 1% since 2015 to 802,088 sq.km or about 24.39% of the country’s total geographical area (GA), shows a report released by the environment ministry on Monday. In a worrying trend, however, the report shows that forests in most of the biodiversity-rich north-eastern part of the country have been contracting continuously over the last few years.
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A cave in China is filled with exotic plants that shouldn't be there—but researchers may have figured out why
This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. From Plato to Polyphemus, caves have long been literary symbols of the mysterious and the unknown. And in the real world, they often live up to that reputation: underground rivers, weirdly preserved skeletons, rare bacteria that make them shine like gold.
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Colombia takes 'unprecedented' step to stop farms gobbling forests
Indigenous communities that depend on Colombia's Amazon rainforest for their survival will have more say over their ancestral lands, as Colombia adds 8 million hectares to its protected areas in an effort to stem forest loss. The new measures announced by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Tuesday aim to create a buffer zone for the country's southern Amazon region. Farmers are pushing deeper into forests, cutting down more trees to clear land for cattle-grazing and agriculture.
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Poland broke EU law by logging in ancient forest: court
Poland's rightwing government broke the law by logging in one of Europe's last primeval forests, a UNESCO world heritage site, the European Union's top court ruled Tuesday. Logging in the Bialowieza Forest began in May 2016 but the European Commission took Poland to court last year arguing that it was destroying a forest that boasts unique plant and animal life. "The forest management operations concerning the Puszcza Bialowieska Natura 2000 site that have been undertaken by Poland infringe EU law," the European Court of Justice said in a statement.
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An Ancient Juniper Forest and its Living Fossils
Mature trees at Ziarat in Balochistan are often thousands of years old, but many end up as firewood.
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Exclusive New Video From Greenpeace Reveals Massive Deforestation in Indonesia
A palm oil supplier to Mars, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever is destroying rainforests in Papua, Indonesia, a new investigation by Greenpeace International has revealed. Satellite analysis suggests that around 4,000 hectare of rainforest were cleared in PT Megakarya Jaya Raya concession between May 2015 and April 2017—an area almost half the size of Paris.
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Peruvian Amazon Loses Over a Million Hectares: Official
Peru is one of 17 "megadiverse" countries on Earth, which together contain 70 percent of the world's biodiversity, according to the UN's environmental agency. The Peruvian Amazon lost nearly two million hectares of forest between 2001 and 2016, or more than 123,000 hectares a year, figures made public Tuesday by the ministry of the environment.
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DRC set to reclassify national parks for oil, open rainforest to logging
Concern is mounting for the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) vast forests and rich wildlife as logging concessions and licenses to explore for oil in protected areas are prepared ahead of presidential elections later this year. A moratorium on industrial logging, in place since 2002, has been broken with three concessions reportedly handed out by …
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Should the U.S. Air Force Bomb Forest Fires?
It sounds ridiculous, but it’s an idea that's grounded in physics.
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Study shows global forest loss over past 35 years has been more than offset by new forest growth
A team of researchers from the University of Maryland, the State University of New York and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has found that new global tree growth over the past 35 years has more than offset global tree cover losses. In their paper published in the journal Nature, the group describes using satellite data to track forest growth and loss over the past 35 years and what they found by doing so.
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The Planet Now Has More Trees Than It Did 35 Years Ago
Tree cover loss in the tropics was outweighed by tree cover gain in subtropical, temperate, boreal, and polar regions.
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National parks want you to stop picking them clean
Parks are doing what they can to keep the nation’s natural treasures safe for future generations — and out of your car's trunk.
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Felling of Amazon rainforest ‘is worst in a decade’, with area five times the size of London destroyed in one year
The felling of rainforests in the Amazon is at its highest rate in the past 10 years, official figures show, with the authorities blaming illegal logging. An area of 7,900 sq km (3,050 sq miles) – roughly five times the size of London – was levelled alone in the 12 months to July, a study revealed. It comes amid fears that the policies of Brazil’s newly elected president, Jair Bolsonaro, could further damage the declining rainforests.
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Meet the 'vigilante' grandfathers protecting indigenous forest life in Cambodia
At the edge of a forest on the northern plains of Cambodia, an indigenous community is building its own security system. By Matt Blomberg.
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Ikea completes replanting of three million rainforest trees in Luasong
KOTA KINABALU: Swedish furniture retailer Ikea has completed the replanting of three million rainforest trees at Luasong in east coast Sabah as part of its efforts to rehabilitate the degraded forest since 1998.
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The uncontacted tribes of Brazil face genocide under Jair Bolsonaro | Fiona Watson
Brazil’s indigenous peoples face a powerful foe in the new president, says Fiona Watson of Survival International
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Polar Vortex Could Knock Back Invasive Tree-Killers—for a While
Insects like the cold-hardy emerald ash borer could see mass die-offs, but survivors could have hardier offspring
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