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Go for Choke Deliberate forest fires cause choking haze in Southeast Asia		23 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Go for Choke Deliberate forest fires cause choking haze in Southeast Asia Southeast Asia has been suffering through hellish smog over the last few weeks thanks to Indonesian farmers and owners of timber and palm-oil plantations who have set massive fires to clear land. Slash-and-burn practices are illegal in Indonesia, but nonetheless take place every year and rarely result in punishment. This year, th ...
Topics: air pollution, Asia, deforestation, Indonesia, news (all these topics)

Starbucks: only green on their logo? Coffee giant may be involved in deforestation in Indonesia	Sarah K. Burkhalter	08 Sep 2006	Gristmill
For being a big-ass chain, Starbucks Coffee at least has a reputation as a socially responsible big-ass chain. They've partnered with Conservation International for their Conservation Coffee program, 'to encourage environmentally sound coffee-growing practices and to improve farmer livelihoods' in Mexico, Colombia, Peru, 'and other Conservation Coffee sites around the world' that apparently don't warrant mentioning. They recycle 'at 1,544 of our stores, of whic ...
Topics: business, deforestation, greening biz operations (all these topics)

How's That Mars Exploration Going? News flash: as world warms, weather gets worse		15 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
How's That Mars Exploration Going? News flash: as world warms, weather gets worse As the globe warms, the risk of more frequent and severe forest fires, droughts, and floods rises. So says, well, the entire scientific community, forever. But a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is being billed as the most comprehensive look yet at the effects of climate change. With data from 52 climate simulation ...
Topics: climate, deforestation, news (all these topics)

Soycott Big soy companies pledge not to source from recently deforested Amazon		25 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Soycott Big soy companies pledge not to source from recently deforested Amazon Now for some Amazon news that won't make you want to slit your wrists: Soy producers operating in Brazil -- including U.S. agribiz giants Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland -- announced yesterday that they will put a two-year stop to buying soybeans grown in recently deforested areas of the Amazon. They also said they won't bu ...
Topics: Amazon, business, deforestation, Greenpeace, news (all these topics)

Vegetarians Are Ruining the Planet Cargill pushes soy farming that's obliterating the Amazon		18 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Vegetarians Are Ruining the Planet Cargill pushes soy farming that's obliterating the Amazon Soy production has overtaken logging and cattle ranching as the main source of Amazon rainforest destruction. In the past three years, nearly 27,000 square miles of the Amazon have been destroyed, nearly three-quarters of it illegally. Much of the acreage was sold to soy producers, financed in large part by agribu ...
Topics: Amazon, deforestation, food and agriculture, news (all these topics)

Comic Re-Leaf On plants and global warming	Umbra Fisk	03 Apr 2006	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, My simple understanding of global warming is that we are introducing long-buried carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This is shifting the balance, leading to a host of undesirable issues. CO2 is consumed by plants, so here's my thought: Could we grow crops that consume a lot of CO2 (I'm thinking bamboo here, which grows really quickly) and then bury them, effectively taking the CO2 they've consumed out of the atmosp ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, carbon sequestration, climate, deforestation (all these topics)

The Forest Service Is Dead; Long Live the Forest Service! It's time for conservationists to collaborate with an agency they've long demonized	Mitch Friedman	28 Feb 2006	Soapbox
In 1982, Earth First!er Dave Foreman used form letters to blitz the U.S. Forest Service with administrative appeals, blocking over 100 timber sales that threatened roadless areas in several Western states. There's a new ray of hope among forest activists. Photo: iStockphoto. This act of paper monkeywrenching sums up the relati ...
Topics: deforestation, logging, national forests, US Forest Service (all these topics)

A Slow-Down Dirty Shame World's forests disappearing slightly less quickly		15 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
A Slow-Down Dirty Shame World's forests disappearing slightly less quickly Good news! The world's forests are being destroyed at a slightly-slower-if-still-alarming rate. That's the chipper assessment of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's new report on global deforestation. It compared trends in 229 countries over the past five years with data from the 1990s, finding that on average, just over 18 ...
Topics: deforestation, news, United Nations, wilderness (all these topics)

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Deforestation Take a few easy steps to stem the flood of holiday catalogs		08 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Deforestation Take a few easy steps to stem the flood of holiday catalogs Judging by the fake-snow-and-forced-cheer displays popping up in stores, it's almost that time of year again: Time for overcrowded travel, bad TV specials, a deluge of dead trees, and heaps of precious gift catalogs through your mail slot. Greenies hope you'll celebrate the holidays this year by opting out ...
Topics: deforestation, green living, holiday, news (all these topics)

Arbor Slay Poverty drives forest loss in Malawi		01 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
Arbor Slay Poverty drives forest loss in Malawi Southern Africa's Malawi (yes, it's a country -- look it up) loses about 200 square miles of forest a year to illegal logging for firewood and charcoal; over a fifth of the nation's forests disappeared between 1990 and 2000. Twenty-three tree species are endangered, streams are drying up, air pollution is increasing, and some rivers get so clogged with silt that hydroelectric-powe ...
Topics: deforestation, Malawi, news (all these topics)

We Must, We Must, We Must Increase Our Bust! Brazilian cops crack down on Amazon logging gang		27 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
We Must, We Must, We Must Increase Our Bust! Brazilian cops crack down on Amazon logging gang In a burst of dawn raids, Brazilian police busted an Amazon logging gang yesterday. Some 400 agents fanned out across five Amazon states and arrested at least 34 people accused of forging and selling permits that facilitated the transport of millions of dollars worth of illegally logged hardwood timber. It marked the ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, logging, news (all these topics)

When It Rainforests, It Pours Amazon logging damage: now with twice the depressingness		21 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
When It Rainforests, It Pours Amazon logging damage: now with twice the depressingness You know all that damage logging has done to the Amazon rainforest? It's not as bad as you thought. It's twice as bad! Researchers have developed a way to wring far more detail out of satellite photos, a bittersweet accomplishment in light of the results. Turns out the practice of illegal "selective logging" -- removin ...
Topics: Amazon, deforestation, news, rainforests (all these topics)

Beyond a Reasonable Drought Massive Amazon drought may be linked to warm Atlantic waters		12 Oct 2005	Daily Grist
Beyond a Reasonable Drought Massive Amazon drought may be linked to warm Atlantic waters With the Amazon rainforest suffering its worst drought in a half-century, Brazil has declared a state of emergency in the hardest-hit area. Some scientists speculate that warmer North Atlantic waters -- the same factor driving the intense Atlantic hurricane season -- are causing more air to rise, and that the rising air is offset b ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, news (all these topics)

You're Turning Into a Real Ditch Panama Canal threatened by denuded forest watershed		24 May 2005	Daily Grist
You're Turning Into a Real Ditch Panama Canal threatened by denuded forest watershed Here's how the Panama Canal works: Torrential downpours batter the country's forests during rainy season; the water is absorbed into the watershed and feeds steadily into massive, human-made Gatun Lake; the lake then feeds water into the canal. The shipping route thus provided is responsible for some 40 percent of the nation's econom ...
Topics: business, deforestation, news, Panama (all these topics)

Soy Triste Brazil's rainforest keeps getting gobbled up		19 May 2005	Daily Grist
Soy Triste Brazil's rainforest keeps getting gobbled up More than 10,000 square miles of Amazon rainforest disappeared from Brazil in 2004, the second-highest level of deforestation ever recorded, thanks mainly to the expansion of soy farming. As U.S.-state comparisons are de rigueur in these stories: that's an area the size of Massachusetts. Though Brazil's government imp ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, food and agriculture, logging, news, rainforests (all these topics)

Tamayo-Paced Honduras forest activists slow deforestation		21 Mar 2005	Daily Grist
Tamayo-Paced Honduras forest activists slow deforestation In central Honduras, where deforestation is widespread, poor farmers and rural residents under the leadership of Roman Catholic priest Andres Tamayo have had a string of successes in their struggle to save the pine forests that sustain them (or used to). The activists say Honduras' forests have been poorly managed for decades, resulting in topsoil erosion, water ...
Topics: Central America, deforestation, news (all these topics)

Big Trouble in Big China News flash: China's environment is bad and getting worse		20 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
Big Trouble in Big China News flash: China's environment is bad and getting worse A Washington Post exploration of China's environmental problems confirms all the sorry tales you've been hearing. The country contains at least six of the world's 10 most polluted cities, experts say, leading to respiratory problems for millions of citizens. Deforestation in north and central China means deserts ...
Topics: China, deforestation, desertification, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Kim Jong Illin' North Korea's Environment Is in Sorry Shape		30 Aug 2004	Daily Grist
Kim Jong Illin' North Korea's Environment Is in Sorry Shape Its rivers and streams are filled with industrial waste, its air is polluted, and its landscape is increasingly devoid of trees. Can't tell what country we're talking about? It's North Korea. The first large-scale environmental assessment of the country, conducted by dozens of government and academic researchers under the auspice ...
Topics: deforestation, North Korea, pollution and waste, United Nations (all these topics)

Flu Dunnit Enviro Disruptions Will Cause More Animal Diseases to Jump to Humans		14 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Flu Dunnit Enviro Disruptions Will Cause More Animal Diseases to Jump to Humans In coming years, diseases -- primarily viruses -- passed from animals to human beings pose one of the principal threats to world health, warned a conference of scientists at the Royal Society in London yesterday. Environmental disruptions ranging from deforestation to population migration to global warming ...
Topics: climate, deforestation, health, population, United Kingdom, wildlife (all these topics)

Orangutangle Orangutans Face Possible Extinction in 20 Years, WWF Says		13 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Orangutangle Orangutans Face Possible Extinction in 20 Years, WWF Says Orangutans may have just two decades left if current trends continue, the World Wildlife Fund warned yesterday. One of the four great ape species, orangutans are rapidly disappearing from their only remaining native habitat on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei. Populations ...
Topics: deforestation, Indonesia, logging, wilderness, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Less Bark, More Bite Logging in the Amazon Leads to Increase in Malaria		02 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Less Bark, More Bite Logging in the Amazon Leads to Increase in Malaria Destruction of the Amazon rainforest is encouraging the spread of malaria, according to new research based on data from Peru. Every 1 percent boost in deforestation increases the number of malaria-bearing mosquitoes by 8 percent, seemingly because these mosquitoes thrive in ponds that are exposed to sunlight, said lead researcher Jonathan Patz of Johns H ...
Topics: deforestation, health, logging (all these topics)

Haiti Crimes Logging Leads to Devastating Floods and Erosion in Haiti		17 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Haiti Crimes Logging Leads to Devastating Floods and Erosion in Haiti Flooding and erosion have become such massive problems in the area around Haiti's capital of Port-au-Prince that they can wipe out shanties, cars, even whole neighborhoods. A number of human-caused factors contribute to the devastation, including poor irrigation and drainage practices, unregulated construction on hillsides, and, perhaps most of all, heavy l ...
Topics: deforestation, Haiti, logging (all these topics)

Say It Ain't Soy Brazil Will Allow Planting of GM Soybeans		29 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Say It Ain't Soy Brazil Will Allow Planting of GM Soybeans In a big blow to opponents of biotechnology, Brazil announced last week that it will allow farmers to plant genetically modified soybeans, ending its role as one of the leading nations opposed to GM crops. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's government had previously promised to oppose GM plantings, bu ...
Topics: Amazon, Brazil, business, deforestation, food and agriculture, GMOs, rainforests (all these topics)

The West Swing Bush Visiting Western States to Push His Environmental Agenda		12 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
The West Swing Bush Visiting Western States to Push His Environmental Agenda During the next three weeks, President Bush will be making pit stops in a number of Western states both to tout his environmental agenda and to raise big bucks for his reelection campaign. Even though Bush's advisors consider the environment to be a "second-tier issue," they recognize that it's a ...
Topics: Arizona, deforestation, elections, politics, United States, wilderness (all these topics)

Welcome to the Ex-jungle		27 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Welcome to the Ex-jungle The rate of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest jumped 40 percent in 2002, with 9,840 square miles of forest lost, according to figures released this week by Brazil's Environment Ministry. That loss -- the highest since 1995 -- prompted alarm among environmentalists and pledges by the Brazilian government to implement emergency measures to protect t ...
Topics: Brazil, deforestation, logging, mining and drilling, rainforests, wilderness (all these topics)

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