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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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. Since 2014, Pepperwood, which is not an Indigenous organization, has worked under the guidance of a Native advisory council , chaired by McKay, who is Wappo, Pomo, and Wintun, to implement such practices. Into this destruction stepped John Muir.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 26, 2021

The researchers used data from the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the Food and Agricultural Organization, among others, to determine correlations among diseases, populations and forest cover. Since president Jair Bolsonaro took over, logging and forest fires have been the order of the day.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 26, 2021

The researchers used data from the World Health Organization, the World Bank and the Food and Agricultural Organization, among others, to determine correlations among diseases, populations and forest cover. Since president Jair Bolsonaro took over, logging and forest fires have been the order of the day.

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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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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Losing or slowing this pathway would be detrimental not only to climate efforts, but also to conservation and biodiversity initiatives around the world. Some signals are clearer at 3 meters than at 30 meters, such as the loss of individual trees, development of logging roads, or local variation in tree survival following disturbance.

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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. High organic content (over 50%) in growth media (soil). This and the additional risk of water-logging increase the stress on plants.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

Mondi has been working with the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) since 2017, exploring the outlook of climate change and impact on Europe's forests and wood supply. We actively work towards safeguarding biodiversity by protecting water resources as well as forestry in our operations and beyond.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 3, 2021

Earlier this year, Akamai’s sustainability organization teamed up with its wellness team, corporate foundation and employee resource groups to create a platform, managed with WeSpire software, that is used to share information and manage engagement. To support those efforts, Microsoft has organized access to a number of resources.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JULY 6, 2021

Our reach is expanding as we continue to grow and plant native and biodiverse trees worldwide! We are growing fast and need support in our mission to enable a frictionless scalable Development organization. Provide visibility, insights and metrics via log and monitoring systems.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home. However, like Ahoskie, Joyner’s community wasn’t quick to organize against the plant. “I Enviva had built its first North Carolina plant there two years before.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

The plan calls for sourcing wood from areas that encompass eight National Forests, and activists in California have raised concerns that the production of this “renewable” power could endanger vital biodiversity in the forests, home to California’s endangered gray wolves. Credit: California Department of Fish and Wildlife ( CC BY 2.0

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This biodiversity loss is affecting indigenous populations living in the forest, and in an effort to advocate for these groups, Stiftung für indigene Gemeinschaften in Paraguay , is using Planet data to combat deforestation and resolve land disputes. .

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 1, 2021

Converting land to biofuel production can have a disastrous impact on both the climate and biodiversity. The IEA’s claim that 45 percent of all future bioenergy could come from “organic waste” also doesn’t seem to be based on any of the studies quoted.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 12, 2024

Figure 1, sourced from a prior analysis, compares aboveground biomass density and total biomass estimates to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and GEDI across all of Brazil. Decreases in carbon density are primarily driven by forest loss via deforestation, selective logging, or natural disturbance.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 20, 2022

We are in a planetary crisis, with biodiversity loss, ecocide, and climate change urgently requiring greater action. While large commercial and governmental entities can and do get value from our products today, we want to increase access for many more organizations so that they, too, can gain value. Planet’s Second Decade.

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Grist

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Cook-Patton’s new study, published in Nature and co-authored by researchers from 17 academic and environmental organizations, says estimates of the rate of carbon accumulation by natural forest regrowth, endorsed last year by the U.N.’s Nature knows what to grow, and does it best. This is much greater than previously assessed.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 12, 2022

A powerful US biomass lobby group is pushing for a raft of changes that would weaken European renewable energy rules geared to better protect biodiversity and tackle climate change, DeSmog can reveal. The International Energy Agency has also recommended “maximising” bioenergy – which derives from burning organic material for fuel.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 19, 2019

The Amazon basin, more than half of which is in Brazil, accounts for 40 percent of the world’s tropical forests and 10-15 percent of the earth's biodiversity. Almost one quarter (800,000km² of Brazil’s original 4m km²) of Amazon forest has been lost to development including logging, agriculture, and mining.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 6, 2020

Trump and Republican's support for the fossil fuel industry further undermine the health of Americans and biodiversity. Forest Service to expedite environmental reviews which will increase logging and oil development on public lands. Putin owns Donald Trump," the organization wrote on Twitter, along with the #TRE45SON hashtag.

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