Deforestation

Model predicts future deforestation

British Journal of Pharmacology (Free subscription) | yesterday

Projections could help Central African nations in Copenhagen climate talks.

Plan Toys: Eco-Friendly, Safe Toys for Kids

The Green Connoisseur Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

If you're a parent, then you know having kids and buying toys go hand in hand. However, it can be extremely difficult these days to find toys that are safe for your child to play with - let alone great for the environment. Allow me to introduce you to Plan Toys , a company making toys that meet those requirements and more. Safe for Your Kids to Play With Whether your child is at that age where he or...

Greenpeace hails minister for actions against RAPP

Cempaka Eco Green (Free subscription) | yesterday

The Jakarta Post | Thu, 11/19/2009 5:26 PM International environmental group Greenpeace hailed on Thursday Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan for his actions against Southeast Asia’s biggest pulp producer PT Riau Andalan Pulp and Paper. “The minister has taken the right measures,” Greenpeace’s Southeast Asia campaigner Bustar Maitar said in the Riau capital of Pekanbaru. Zulkifli...

Kenya: Rangers demolish houses in Mau Forest

Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | yesterday

Nairobi — Houses left behind by Mau settlers were demolished on Thursday in a clear indication that the government would not allow the evicted squatters to return to the forest. The Kenya Forest Service has also sent more rangers to the South Western Mau to ensure that the families that leave the country's largest source of water do not return. In Nairobi, Forestry and Wildlife minister Noah...

Split Carbon Costs of Deforestation Between Producers & Consumers to Slow Felling Forests

Treehugger (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

It's probably no great secret to TreeHugger readers at this point that part of the reason carbon emissions in developing nations are rapidly rising is partially because manufacturing of goods for export to the developed world. In fact in China at least one-third of total emissions and about 50% of emissions growth in recent years is directly tied to goods consumer in Europe and the Uni... Read the...

$36 Billion Rainforest Protection Plan Agreed to by 35 Nations - Now Who Will Pay For It...?

Treehugger (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

photo: flickrfavorites . A group of 35 nations have agreed to a plan that aims to reduce global deforestation by 25% by 2015, The Guardian reports. The price tag for it all could run as high as $36 billion over the next five years. Now who will pay for it all'... Read the full story on TreeHugger

Indonesia Suspends Controversial Paper Company's License to Review Environmental Record

Treehugger (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

The Kampar Peninsula is the last large intact area of pear swamp forest in Riau, Indonesia with some of the deepest peat (read: most stored carbon). Photo: Greenpeace. Indonesia may have deported a total of thirteen activists and two journalists over deforestation in the past week (boo!) but it also just suspended the license of Asia Pacific Resources International Limited to review the company's...

Destruction of Indonesia peatlands wreaks as much damage as all the vehicles in the U.S.

Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

TARUNA JAYA, Indonesia - Across a patch of pineapples shrouded in smoke, Idris Hadrianyani battled a menace that has left his family sleepless and sick -- and has wrought as much damage on the planet as has exhaust from all the cars and trucks in the United States. Against the advancing flames, he waved a hose with a handmade nozzle confected from a plastic soda bottle. The lopsided struggle is part...

Kenya evicts thousands of forest squatters in attempt to save Rift valley

Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009

Tourism, tea and energy industries threatened after a quarter of huge Mau forest destroyed in 20 years By Xan Rice in Nairobi, www.guardian.co.uk , Wednesday 18 November 2009 22.48 GMT Several thousand people who had settled illegally in Kenya's most important forest have left their homes at the beginning of an eviction plan designed to end rampant environmental degradation in the Rift valley. Security...

Worst-case scenario: World on course for catastrophic 6° rise, reveal scientists

Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

Fast-rising carbon emissions mean that worst-case predictions for climate change are coming true By Steve Connor and Michael McCarthy, Wednesday, 18 November 2009 The world is now firmly on course for the worst-case scenario in terms of climate change, with average global temperatures rising by up to 6C by the end of the century, leading scientists said yesterday. Such a rise – which would be...

• Is humanity prepared for its final exam? - 12 Degrees of Freedom

Hundreds of Mau squatters stream out of forest, situation ‘Dire, Pathetic diabolical’

Desdemona Despair (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009

November 17, 2009 (NTVKenya) - Hundreds of squatters have continued to stream into makeshift camps claiming they have no alternative shelter. Earlier in the day a rift emerged between rift valley politicians over whom to blame for the current confusion. Hundreds of Mau squatters stream out of forest Technorati Tags: Africa , climate change , climate refugees , deforestation , poverty , Kenya , poaching...

More important than Copenhagen? U.S.-China deal on energy and climate

Scientific American (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

When the presidents of two nations responsible together for 40 percent of Earth's climate-changing greenhouse gases sit down to talk, big things can happen. In the case of Barack Obama and Hu Jintao on Monday and Tuesday, that meant flatly stating that emission reduction targets should be set at an international negotiation on climate change in Copenhagen this December, along with financial assistance...

New Climate Treaty Could Put Species at Risk (Science Daily)

Desertification (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

Read at : Science Daily http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091116131714.htm New Climate Treaty Could Put Species at Risk, Scientists Argue ScienceDaily (Nov. 16, 2009) — Plans to be discussed at the forthcoming UN climate conference in Copenhagen to cut deforestation in developing countries could save some species from extinction but inadvertently increase the risk to others, scientists...

UN Climate Plans Could Do As Much Harm As Good

Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009

According to a team of the world’s leading scientists, some of the plans slated for discussion and potential enactment into international law at the much-anticipated UN Copenhagen climate conference this winter could eventually damage the environment as much as they help save it.Coming under particular scrutiny are preliminary plans to help stop deforestation projects in a number of third world...

New climate treaty could put species at risk

Physorg (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009

Plans to be discussed at the forthcoming UN climate conference in Copenhagen to cut deforestation in developing countries could save some species from extinction but inadvertently increase the risk to others, scientists believe.