Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 28, 2022

Leading forest researchers from around the world call for a global forest observatory to provide much-needed data on the current and future ability of our trees to absorb and store carbon, produce multiple goods and benefit for people, and support biodiversity.

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Grist

JULY 14, 2020

But conservation areas are often vulnerable to illegal logging, poaching, mining, and other activities that threaten biodiversity. Sound has long been used by soundscape ecologists to assess biodiversity and other metrics of ecosystem health. How can land managers detect these kinds of human impacts on protected ecosystems?

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Green Roof Technology

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Around 50 years ago there was trend in the USA of having Norwegian Log Cabins as a second home. Rather common in the USA: Norwegian Log Cabins. The post Norwegian Green Roof Log Cabins in the USA appeared first on Green Roof Technology. All of these cabins came entirely from Norway and they all had a Green Roof.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Environmental Audit Committee report also describes government biodiversity efforts to date as 'lacking' and argues ‘bold and ambitious action’ is required. While this issue is bigger than any one person's habits, if we all take action to tackle unsustainable consumption, we can make a lasting impact to halt biodiversity loss.".

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Grist

APRIL 27, 2022

A new United Nations report released Wednesday shows farming, mining, and logging has marred more than half of the planet. If these trends continue, experts expect growing disruptions to human health, food supplies, migration, and biodiversity loss driven by climate change, in what the authors calls a “confluence of unprecedented crises.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

During its inaugural event in May 2023, a team of volunteers scuba dived, snorkelled and strolled the coastline, searching for evidence of seagrass and logging their results. The Great Seagrass Survey, the first of its kind in the UK, is a collaboration between Scottish charity, Seawilding and the British Sub Aqua Club (BSAC).

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS), an international conservation organization founded in 1858 focuses on maintaining biodiversity and conserving wildlife and ecosystems in protected areas and outstanding wild places.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. In short, forests are vital in global and national efforts to combat climate change and biodiversity loss, and eradicate hunger and poverty. Around the world, 1.6

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Loggers, for instance, could harvest trees from a threatened or ecologically vital forest ecosystem , then mix wood species to cover up the illegal logging activity. Following transport to the lumberyard, species origin of the timber logs and boards are further misrepresented to allow illegal wood in the supply chain.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 12, 2023

In addition to forest carbon mapping, Salo brings technologies and expertise in mapping patterns of forest structure, wildfire risk, and biodiversity change around the world. Combining artificial intelligence with ecological models, Salo Sciences converts satellite data into precision insights on vegetation fuels and wildfire hazard.

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Grist

AUGUST 28, 2023

Still, the Amazon covers a land area roughly twice the size of India , and is among the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, with over 3 million species of flora and fauna. But deforestation has slowly eaten away at its edges, and drought and fire have limited rainforests’ ability to withstand extreme temperatures.

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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Satellite imagery also supports the detection and prevention of illegal activities, such as unauthorized logging , mining , or poaching in protected areas. For instance, the Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS) improved forest monitoring using Planet’s satellite data by detecting threats like illegal logging and mining.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 11, 2024

A new study finds that illegal roads have enabled illicit logging, mining, poaching and land grabbing in some of the world's most biodiversity-rich ecosystems.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. These critics argue that thinning is a ploy to increase commercial logging and that severe wildfires are critical for forest health and biodiversity. Prescribed-fire professionals ignite cultural burns. Into this destruction stepped John Muir.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Also under the Nature for Climate Fund, £700,000 is being shared between 17 projects targeted at restoring biodiversity in vulnerable natural habitats, the government said. The government and Drax maintain the plant relies on waste biomass that complies with strict sustainability criteria, with all trees felled replanted.

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Unsustainable

APRIL 11, 2020

Extensive logging of the trees in the past three or so decades has been a major contributor to the current situation in which a healthy mangrove ecosystem in Kenya is in danger. Continued deforestation of mangrove areas disturbs habitats and damages biodiversity, a key effect of this being the decline in fishery yields.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The harvesting of trees to make fabrics has more than doubled over the past 30 years and is expected to grow by another 50-60 per cent within the next decade alone, according to Canopy, with more than 200 million trees currently being logged every year to produce materials such as viscose and rayon.

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Grist

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Out in the wild, these bees often nest in holes in fallen logs, dead trees, and broken branches of bushes. These efforts are really good because hopefully they set up a lifelong commitment to preserving biodiversity.”. Bee hotels are like birdhouses for wild bees.

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Eco-Business

JUNE 8, 2022

In celebration of environment month in the Philippines, Eco-Business asks local conservationists about the biggest challenges they face in preserving wildlife in one of the world’s richest ecosystems.

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Eco-Business

JULY 14, 2020

Conservationists and indigenous communities have warned that the road could devastate the ecosystem, create more habitat fragmentation and facilitate further encroachment for logging, hunting and agriculture.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

More than 38,000 trees across hundreds of English Heritage estates and historic sites are to be digitally managed using software designed to help the charity more accurately assess threats or damage to woodland and better sustain wildlife and biodiversity on its land.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

trillion market value makes it the most valuable company in the world, logging sales of oil and gas worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year. A number of Aramco’s ads claimed the company “promoted biodiversity” and “protected the planet”. The firm single-handedly contributes as much as 43 percent of Saudi Arabia’s GDP.

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

But the practice is highly controversial due to the damage it causes to some of the UK's most biodiverse habitats, which double as huge natural stores of carbon that could help the UK meet its climate goals.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

Every business is inevitably dependent upon - and has impacts on - ecosystems, biodiversity, and the land. What are your dependencies and impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity? The first thing to do is to frame the problem, Macpherson advises. Think about why your business should care about nature," he says.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 13, 2020

The study indicated that global extinction is being driven by human activity including farming, fishing, logging, mining, poaching and burning fossil fuels. We have a chance to save our planet, including much of the diverse array of flora and fauna that make up our biodiversity. to 12.6 ° F) by the end of the century.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In addition, the firm has teamed up with rainforest charity Cool Earth as part of an initiative that will see VOXI donate over £60,000 towards supporting "biodiversity, people, and trees".

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In addition to revealing a litany of human rights abuses at the East New Britain Resources Group, the Rimbunan Hijau Group, and Bewani Oil Palm Plantations Ltd, the investigation found all three companies were involved in the destruction of tropical rainforests that provide a vital defence against climate change and are a hotbed for biodiversity.

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Green Roof Technology

MAY 27, 2021

These specialty fabrics often reverse natural capillarity of engineered soils what dries out the soils faster or when infiltrated with organics particles there is water-logging and rotting. This and the additional risk of water-logging increase the stress on plants. High organic content (over 50%) in growth media (soil).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Separately, Environment and International Development Minister Zac Goldsmith - who has also been tipped as a prospective COP26 Summit - announced that the Department for International Development was working on plans to work with developing countries to lead a crackdown on illegal logging and timber exports.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2020

Charcoal burning and logging have damaged the forest, eroding soil and frightening people with impending mudslides. Since its founding in 2014, One Tree Planted has worked in Africa, Asia, North America and South America to restore forests, create jobs and protect biodiversity. In 2018, the nonprofit planted 1.3 million trees. +

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Deforestation monitoring Governments track deforestation to reduce forest crime, protect biodiversity and ecosystem services, uphold commitments to indigenous peoples, assess changes to carbon stocks, and more. Among 55 randomly selected plots, 90% were infested, while 20% of the landowners were unaware.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

This sobering deforestation figure highlights the harsh landscape changes caused by intentional human encroachment for commercial development purposes, such as logging, mining and cattle ranching. For one, the Amazon rainforest is a biodiversity hotspot, home to thousands of plant and animal species at risk of endangerment and extinction.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

What provides habitat for half the world’s known plants and animals, is a vital component of biodiversity and an important economic crop? Logging, invasive pests, disease, forest clearance and other types of habitat loss all threaten tree species. Nor is climate change helping.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 26, 2021

Since president Jair Bolsonaro took over, logging and forest fires have been the order of the day. Everyone in the field of planetary health is worried about what is happening to biodiversity , climate and public health in Brazil,” Morand said. Morand is concerned with the continued deterioration of the Amazon.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 26, 2021

Since president Jair Bolsonaro took over, logging and forest fires have been the order of the day. Everyone in the field of planetary health is worried about what is happening to biodiversity , climate and public health in Brazil,” Morand said. Morand is concerned with the continued deterioration of the Amazon.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

He would have been joining us to reflect on our longstanding partnership and on Ghana's approach to combatting illegal logging, and promoting trade and sustainable forest land use. Koh-joe Oh-woosoo Afri-yee, known in Ghana as Sir John, died last week. I send my condolences to his family. It is an honour to be speaking to you today.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Representatives of business and industry groups more than doubled at the UN’s latest biodiversity summit, DeSmog has found, sparking fears over the growing influence of powerful private sector bodies. The rise in industry delegates was proportionally higher than the increase in overall attendees, which rose by 46 percent.

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