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Satellite observations of one of the world’s biggest ecological experiments on the island of Borneo appear to reveal that replanting logged forests with diverse mixtures of seedlings can significantly accelerate their recovery. Restoring logged tropical forests is a crucial component of efforts to tackle both the nature and climate crises.
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.
He said careful planning of future forest projects could boost the biodiversity of species, carbon sinks, economic development and people’s livelihoods. “Forests are crucial for the health and economies of our planet, but they must be better planned, managed and monitored to ensure sustainable benefits for people as well as nature,” he said.
logging and woods products industry has positioned itself as a purveyor of “natural climate solutions.” As our civilization begins the slow process of jettisoning fossil energy, logging interests assure us that wood products are not a retrogression but a way forward. This rosy view of logging, however, is hotly contested.
And for decades, the Earth’s forests, along with oceans and soil, have sucked roughly a third back in, creating a vacuum known as the land carbon sink. Over the study period, these cold-loving tree species have lost 36 percent of their carbon-sinking capacity as logging, wildfires, pests, and drought devastated the land.
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.”.
After analysing satellite images, tracing logging licenses, filming drone footage and following a truck from a mill, a team of journalists from the BBC's Panorama programme have today accused Drax of driving the logging of natural forests to produce its feedstock for electricity generation in the UK.
By adding Forest Carbon to the catalog of Planetary Variables, including Soil Water Content, Land Surface Temperature, and Biomass Proxy data, Planet aims to expand its offerings of global analysis-ready data.
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.
Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. Some debris from felling must be left on the forest floor to maintain soil condition and biodiversity.
Water resource monitoring: Soil Water Content data is used to help build models and make informed decisions about irrigation needs, drought risk, and ecosystem restoration projects. Soil Water Content allows organizations to monitor complex water systems by providing insights in water demand and storage capacity.
In some cases an irrigation system (temporary or permanent) or enhanced drainage system should be considered to reduce stress conditions on the plants and to improve soil biology. Soil/Media extension layer (often described as drainage layer) to mimic natural soil profiles and avoid anaerobe conditions in rooting zone.
Every business is inevitably dependent upon - and has impacts on - ecosystems, biodiversity, and the land. And the economic losses and climate impacts that are resulting from deforestation, soil erosion, and pollution continue to rack up. What are your dependencies and impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity?
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
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.
The world lost a football pitch of biodiversity-rich tropical rainforest every six seconds through the course of 2019, as almost 120,000 square kilometres were destroyed - an area larger than Cuba, Portugal, or Austria - principally to make way for the production of agricultural commodities.
Although Scotland is more heavily forested than England or Wales, much of its woodlands have been lost to logging, urban sprawl and climate change. Restoring forests, then, would mean more protection for native wildlife, nurturing local biodiversity and the overall stewardship of the environment. Flood risks are alleviated.
The Peruvian Amazon is the world’s fourth largest tropical rainforest and an important biodiversity hotspot. “Each pit is surrounded by de-vegetated areas of muddy soil ,” Justin Wilkinson, a grant specialist at Texas State University, wrote for NASA’s Earth Observatory. ” Then you have rampant use of mercury.
Modern life makes that easy to forget — removed, as most are, from the touch and scent of soil and crop. Biodiversity loss is another symptom of overshoot. As are soil degradation, deforestation, water scarcity, and more. The concept of overshoot was, in a sense, developed to remind us of the demands we place on the land.
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. Biomass has also raised concerns over potential harm to biodiversity.
Comprising 130,000 hectares on the Kampala Peninsula, alongside another 20,000 hectares on nearby Padang Island to the north, RER was set up a decade ago to restore and protect an area of unique, biodiverse, peatland-rich rainforest that is twice the size of nearby Singapore which lies just over 100 miles eastward.
She found that current carbon accumulation rates vary by a factor of a hundred, depending on climate, soils, altitude, and terrain. But overall, besides being better for biodiversity, the study showed, natural regeneration can capture more carbon more quickly and more securely than plantations. A trillion is a big number.
That’s just an ecological disaster, definitely from a biodiversity perspective and maybe from a carbon perspective,” said Fangyuan Hua, a conservation ecologist at Peking University in China. When tree planting goes wrong. Tree-planting programs have run into problems from the start. So is it time to stop focusing on ‘planting’ trees?
Advocates point out that large bioenergy systems have the potential to not only displace fossil fuel emissions but sequester carbon in soils of feedstock crops, biochar, or when coupled with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS). (To learn more refer to the past review on negative emissions and land use by John Katzenberger.)
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