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Fire and rain The 'hell' before the 'high water' in the U.S.	Jon Rynn	23 Feb 2008	Gristmill
I just wanted to alert Grist readers to an excellent post at The Oil Drum called 'Fire and Rain: The Consequences of Changing Climate on Rainfall, Wildfire and Agriculture.' The author points out that 'Current climate change predictions for much of the West show increased precipitation in the winter or spring, along with earlier and drier summers.' To summarize his post, the drier summers will have profound impacts on the forests, grasslands, and agricultural areas. It ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, climate change impacts, deforestation (all these topics)

Can't See the Forest for the Sneeze Kleenex boxes infiltrated by anti-logging leaflets		19 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 4:55 PM on 19 Feb 2008 Planning to buy some tissues for your February sniffles? Be forewarned: Menacing notes have been found in Kleenex boxes across the U.S. and Canada. "Wiping away ancient forests," says a leaflet found by a reporter in a New York drugstore. "Here's a little secret that Kimberly-Clark, the largest tissue maker in the world and parent company of Kleenex, does not wa ...
Topics: deforestation, grassroots activism, green living, Greenpeace, news (all these topics)

Letter to the editor: forest certification Kathy Abusow of Sustainable Forestry Initiative responds to Grist's green-buying tips	Grist	12 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Here is a letter to the editor from Kathy Abusow of Sustainable Forestry Initiative, Inc., written in response to our article featuring tips for buying green products and avoiding greenwashed ones. ----- Dear Editor: I am writing in response to an article that your website ran titled 'Is It Really Green?' It was disappointing to read your statement about the Sustainable Forestry Initiative Standard® (SFI®). The fact is, SFI is an independent nonprofit organization and ...
Topics: consumerism, deforestation, green living, greenwashing, logging (all these topics)

Out of the Trying Plan, Into the Ire Bush admin unveils new plan for Tongass forest in Alaska, ticks off enviros		28 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 5:02 AM on 28 Jan 2008 The Bush administration unveiled a new management plan on Friday for the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, which encompasses nearly 17 million acres of coastal rainforest. The Tongass is the largest national forest in the U.S., a rallying point for enviros who want to protect all remaining roadless areas in national forests. The new plan, to be in ef ...
Topics: deforestation, national forests, news, politics, United States (all these topics)

On a Clear-Cut Day, You Can Seed Forever Brazil unveils plan to slow deforestation and soy cultivation in Amazon		25 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 6:49 AM on 25 Jan 2008 Following Brazil's recent announcement of a dramatic rise in Amazon deforestation in the country in the last months of 2007, the country this week announced new plans to try to slow the destruction. Plans include tapping the army to conduct inspections of known problem areas and keep deforested land from being cultivated or used for pasture, fining me ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, logging, news (all these topics)

Slowforestation Decelerating growth in tropical forest trees, thanks to accelerating carbon dioxide	Joseph Romm	22 Jan 2008	Gristmill
I meant to blog on this earlier, but lost track of it after failing to find the original study (for reasons that will become clear). The bottom line is: Global warming could cut the rate at which trees in tropical rainforests grow by as much as half, a new study based on more two decades of data from forests in Panama and Malaysia shows. The effects, so far largely overlooked by climate modelers, Nature magazine said, could severely erode or even remove the a ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, deforestation, greenhouse-gas emissions, rainforests (all these topics)

Plowing up the Amazon Scientist says biofuel boom endangers world's largest rainforest	Tom Philpott	18 Jan 2008	Gristmill
A fifth of the Amazon rainforest -- the world's biggest carbon sponge -- has disappeared since the 1970s. The Brazilian government has succeeded in recent years in slowing the deforestation rate, but its efforts have recently been faltering. Bungle in the jungle. Photo: iStockphoto In the last four months, 2300 square miles of rainforest got leveled, Reuters reports. In the year before that, the forest surrendered 3700 square miles. If the current rate hold ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, Brazil, deforestation, energy, rainforests (all these topics)

The high costs of doing nothing, part III Climate change disrupts ecosystems that provide valuable services	Joseph Romm	16 Jan 2008	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, executive director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. ----- If you are one of those people who loves the quiet communion of hiking in the high-country forests of Colorado, you'd better get there fast. In three years, those forests may be gone. The Rocky Mountain News reported this week that every large, mature forest of lodgepole pines in Colorado and southern Wyoming will be dead in three t ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, Colorado, deforestation (all these topics)

Throw the book at him Which circle of hell for illegal logging?	Eric de Place	18 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Sickening. Kevin John Moran of Camano Island, Wash., was just convicted of illegally cutting down 27 old-growth cedars on public land. They were between 400 and 700 years old. And they were dry-side trees, even rarer than the Northwest's west-slope titans. But here's the worst that can happen to him: Theft of government property is a Class C felony, which means a maximum sentence of 10 years or less, and a fine not to exceed $250,000. Some of these tr ...
Topics: deforestation, logging, Washington (all these topics)

Loggin' Went a-Courtin' Part of		06 Dec 2007	News
"Healthy Forests" law struck down by court for skirting eco-reviews Posted at 6:48 AM on 06 Dec 2007 A key part of the Bush administration's "Healthy Forests" law, passed in 2003, was effectively struck down this week by a federal appeals court. The "hazardous fuels reduction" rule let the U.S. Forest Service get out of analyzing the environmental impacts of timber sales up to 1,000 acres in size and prescribed burns up to 4,500 acre ...
Topics: deforestation, litigation, news, United States, US Forest Service (all these topics)

Humor fails Saddening video report on Indonesian palm oil plantations	JMG	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill
Here is a short, painful four-minute news report about palm oil plantations -- watch it and weep:
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, deforestation, energy, Indonesia, rainforests (all these topics)

The tropical global warming solution Bali conference could end deforestation overnight	Glenn Hurowitz	03 Dec 2007	Gristmill
This post was co-written with Dorjee Sun, the head of Carbon Conservation, a company that works to protect forests in Indonesia from destruction. ----- Photo: www.viajar24h.com Bali, Indonesia, is the perfect backdrop for this week's climate summit. No country better embodies the immense peril of inaction -- and the immense opportunity this meeting has to make massive and immediate progress in stemming the climate crisis. Indonesia is the wo ...
Topics: agriculture, air pollution, Bali 07, climate, climate change mitigation, deforestation, greenhouse-gas emissions, Indonesia (all these topics)

Palm Leader? Palm oil may be certified sustainable, some greens skeptical		26 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 2:22 PM on 26 Nov 2007 Hoping to quell criticism from biofuel bashers, palm-oil producers have drawn up criteria for certifying their product as sustainable. It's a nice idea, but green group Friends of the Earth has threatened to withdraw its support of the standards, saying that Malaysia and Indonesia -- which together produce nearly 85 percent of the world's palm oil -- are using the voluntary initiative as a ...
Topics: biofuels, deforestation, energy, Friends of the Earth, Indonesia, Malaysia, news (all these topics)

No Forest for the Weary Gulf State forests ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, says study		16 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 12:04 PM on 16 Nov 2007 The impact of Hurricane Katrina on the people of the Gulf States is well known (if occasionally ignored), but the storm also brutalized the region's forests. A new study published in Science reports that Katrina destroyed some 320 million trees in Mississippi and Louisiana, leading to a laundry list of problems. Federal funding for replanting has been slow in coming, and many pri ...
Topics: deforestation, Louisiana, Mississippi, news, scientific research, severe weather (all these topics)

Once You Lop, You Just Can't Stop Food companies damaging climate through deforestation, says new report		08 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 9:12 AM on 08 Nov 2007 The makers of such familiar products as Pringles, KitKat, and Philadelphia cream cheese are contributing to deforestation and climate change, says a new report from Greenpeace. Companies like Unilever, Kraft, and Nestle use palm oil from Indonesia in their products. And guess what happens in Indonesia when the palm-oil peddlers come calling? Virgin forests ar ...
Topics: agriculture, business, climate, deforestation, food, greenhouse-gas emissions, Indonesia (all these topics)

Would You Like to Save This Forest? Sherwood! Groups band together to save Sherwood Forest		05 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 3:44 PM on 05 Nov 2007 After the daily grind of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, a current-day Robin Hood might want to find a hideout other than his beloved Sherwood Forest, which has shrunk to less than 0.5 percent its historical size. Merry men (and women) in more than a dozen British organizations are banding together to make a rescue plan for the forest, which is home to rare ...
Topics: deforestation, news, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Bali burning Amazing helicopter footage of Greenpeace in the Indonesian peat bogs	Glenn Hurowitz	31 Oct 2007	Gristmill
In the lead-up to the international Bali Climate summit, Greenpeace has launched a major direct action in Sumatra, Indonesia, to stop the nefarious PT Duta Palma corporation from destroying a pristine tropical forest (and the habitat for highly endangered Sumatran rhinos, tigers, and oh-so-cute orangutans) and replacing it with a palm oil plantation. Click on the picture to the right to watch the extraordinary video of their action, including amazing helicopter footag ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, deforestation, grassroots activism, Greenpeace, Indonesia, politics (all these topics)

Planet in Peril A two-part CNN documentary begins tonight	Sarah van Schagen	23 Oct 2007	Gristmill
(Images: CNN Worldwide -- All Rights Reserved 2007 ©) Beginning tonight at 9 p.m. ET/PT, CNN will air a two-part documentary that takes viewers to the front lines of environmental change. Hosted by CNN anchor Anderson Cooper (above), chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and Animal Planet host/wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin, Planet in Peril will focus on four main issues: climate change, deforestation, species loss, and overpopulation. The four-hour ...
Topics: biodiversity, climate, deforestation, endangered species, population, TV (all these topics)

Knock That Junk Off New anti-junk-mail service stops unwanted catalogs for free		18 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 8:47 AM on 18 Oct 2007 A new service set up by the Natural Resources Defense Council, National Wildlife Federation, and the Ecology Center called Catalog Choice can put a stop to all those unwanted catalogs clogging your mailbox. Since its debut last week, some 20,000 people have signed up for the service, already halting over 50,000 unwanted catalogs. That's a small fraction of the 19 billion catalogs mai ...
Topics: deforestation, green living, news, United States (all these topics)

How Green Was Myanmar's Valley? Myanmar quickly being deforested for world timber trade, quick cash		17 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 11:32 AM on 17 Oct 2007 Ever wonder what the military government of Myanmar is up to when it's not quashing peaceful, pro-democracy protests? According to environmental groups, the regime has allegedly been profiting from large-scale illegal logging operations that feed sawmills across the border in China. Green group Global Witness estimates that up to 95 percent of Myanmar's timber exp ...
Topics: Asia, deforestation, news (all these topics)

Bush swaps debt for nature Costa Rica and Guatemala deals could point to common ground on climate crisis	Glenn Hurowitz	17 Oct 2007	Gristmill
The Bush administration, Costa Rica, Conservation International, and The Nature Conservancy will today announce a 'debt-for-nature' swap that could herald something bigger in the future. The United States will write off $12.6 million in debt owed it by Costa Rica. In exchange, Costa Rica will protect some of the most valuable rainforest wildlife habitat in the world. Photo: obooble This follows the Bush administration's support for an even bigger sw ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, Costa Rica, deforestation, international politics, politics, rainforests (all these topics)

Smokin' greens The eco-depredations of the tobacco industry	David Roberts	26 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Brad Plumer points to what is no doubt going to be a fascinating story on the environmental evils of the tobacco industry. Clicking the link reveals that the story itself won't be available until Oct. 1, but using his prodigious powers of precognition, Brad excerpts this bit: Without even factoring in the paper wrapping, packaging, and print advertisements--which require as much paper by weight as the tobacco being grown--nearly 600 million trees are felled each yea ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, deforestation, food, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Nuggets and Hummers and fish sticks, oh my! PETA VP argues vegetarianism is the best way to help the planet	Grist	18 Sep 2007	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Bruce Friedrich, vice president for campaigns at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). It was written in response to Alex Roth's essay "PETA's dogma is all bark and no bite." Friedrich has been an environmental activist for more than 20 years. In 1987, I read Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappé and -- primarily for human rights and environmental reasons -- went vegan. Two decades later, I still believe ...
Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, aquaculture, climate, deforestation, fishing, food, health, sustainable ag, vegetarianism and veganism, waste, water pollution (all these topics)

We're Not Quite Dead Yet Environmental protection trending negative, says report		14 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 1:06 PM on 14 Sep 2007 The Worldwatch Institute yesterday released its "Vital Signs 2007-2008" report, which generally concluded that the earth is flatlining. Only six of 44 studied environmental trends were declared to be positive (such as the growth of wind power), while 28 were "pronouncedly bad." Among the bad: meat production hit a record 304 million tons, or 95 pounds per person, ...
Topics: deforestation, news (all these topics)

Mongabay highlights for July '07 (late edition) Certification-driven deforestation	biodiversivist	10 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Sustainable certification programs in third world nations are not what you would call foolproof. For every product that actually comes from a sustainable operation, you have those that don't but claim they did, and separating the wheat from the chaff is not usually possible -- a few bribes, some forged paperwork and everything looks golden. You might think you got a certified product, but you wouldn't want to bet your first-born on it. Everyone pretends, or at least a ...
Topics: deforestation, mining, rainforests, wildlife (all these topics)

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