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Amazon Disgrace
Peruvian Amazon under threat from oil exploration, illegal logging |
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17 Mar 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 10:11 AM on 17 Mar 2008 There's no better way to start off a Monday than with depressing news from the Peruvian Amazon, which is under threat from both fossil-fuel development and illegal logging. Despite protests from environmental and human rights groups, Peru's government plans to auction off dozens of parcels of remote rainforest for oil and gas companies to explore. And in even more somber news, Per ... |
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| Topics: energy, fossil fuels, habitat loss, insanity, logging, news, Peru, rainforests (all these topics) |
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Where's Grover Norquist when you need him?
Bush raises taxes on hikers and campers, mysteriously leaving logging companies alone |
Glenn Hurowitz |
07 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: George Bush, logging, national parks, politics (all these topics) |
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Letter to the editor: forest certification
Kathy Abusow of Sustainable Forestry Initiative responds to Grist's green-buying tips |
Grist |
12 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: consumerism, deforestation, green living, greenwashing, logging (all these topics) |
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On a Clear-Cut Day, You Can Seed Forever
Brazil unveils plan to slow deforestation and soy cultivation in Amazon |
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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 ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, deforestation, logging, news (all these topics) |
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Hillary's poisonous NH cloud
Clinton lobbied for tire burning near Granite State |
Glenn Hurowitz |
07 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: air pollution, elections, Hillary Clinton, logging, New Hampshire, politics, presidential race 08, toxics (all these topics) |
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Throw the book at him
Which circle of hell for illegal logging? |
Eric de Place |
18 Dec 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: deforestation, logging, Washington (all these topics) |
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Sears of Joy
Sears and KMart will phase out PVC, Wal-Mart accused of eco-naughtiness |
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13 Dec 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 1:36 PM on 13 Dec 2007 Big-box behemoths Sears and Kmart have agreed to phase out nasty plastic PVC from all products in their 3,800 stores. While admirable, the announcement merely makes those stores the lemmings of PVC abandonment; IKEA, Wal-Mart, and Target have all previously agreed to go PVC-free. In other big-box news, the nonprofit Environmental Investigation Agency has accused Wal-Mart of sour ... |
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| Topics: business, green living, greening biz operations, greenish companies, logging, news, shopping, toxics, Wal-Mart (all these topics) |
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Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like the Police
Mexican police conduct anti-logging raid in butterfly habitat |
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07 Dec 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 10:11 AM on 07 Dec 2007 Hundreds of Mexican police raided illegal sawmills near a monarch butterfly reserve yesterday in "the largest seizure of illegally logged wood in the country's history," according to the attorney general's office. Millions of butterflies travel some 2,500 miles each winter to spend the cold season in the Mexican forest, where illegal logging is r ... |
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| Topics: habitat protection, logging, Mexico, news, progress, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Winging It
Mexico boosts funding for butterfly protection |
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26 Nov 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 11:40 AM on 26 Nov 2007 Millions of butterflies clapped their tiny wings as Mexican President Felipe Calderon yesterday announced a plan to curb logging and protect habitat for migrating monarchs. Mexico has already boosted anti-logging efforts, resulting in a 48 percent drop in illegal tree-chopping in the last year. Calderon hopes the additional funding to be put toward the existing Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve will boo ... |
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| Topics: habitat protection, logging, Mexico, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Wood You Believe It
Forest Stewardship Council will overhaul too-lax rules |
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30 Oct 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 5:19 PM on 30 Oct 2007 Ooh, bummer: The Forest Stewardship Council, trusted certifier of sustainably sourced wood and paper, plans to overhaul its standards after acknowledging that some companies using its label are logging destructively. source: The Wall Street Journal From the Archives Candid Campus. Sierra magazine names top 10 green colleges. Nuke Rebuke. Research panel discourag ... |
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| Topics: business, Forest Stewardship Council, logging, news (all these topics) |
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Gaffe All the Way to the Bank
World Bank encourages destructive logging in the Congo, says report |
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05 Oct 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 4:21 PM on 05 Oct 2007 The World Bank's encouragement of industrial forestry as a means of economic recovery in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is counter to the organization's legal commitment to protecting the environment, according to a new report. An independent inspection panel charges that the bank overestimated possible export revenue from forestry, leading to a logging scramb ... |
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| Topics: Congo, logging, news, World Bank (all these topics) |
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For peat's sake, stop the palm oil madness
It's not a 'sustainable' biofuel |
Joseph Romm |
31 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: biofuels, climate, deforestation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, logging (all these topics) |
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Timber industry rent seeking
Making things out of wood sequesters carbon, turns out |
David Roberts |
25 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: climate change mitigation, logging, carbon sequestration, climate, carbon offsets (all these topics) |
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Can't see the trees for the forest
Park Service hacks down some trees in Pa. |
Kate Sheppard |
18 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: deforestation, logging, national parks, Pennsylvania (all these topics) |
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Truth in the Tongass
Gathering data in the U.S.' largest temperate rainforest a heroic and necessary task |
Erik Hoffner |
03 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: Alaska, deforestation, logging, national forests, rainforests (all these topics) |
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Dios Mio
Indigenous leader Julio Cusurichi Palacios battles for an intact Amazon |
Michelle Nijhuis |
25 Apr 2007 |
Main Dish |
| Julio Cusurichi Palacios. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. The Peruvian Amazon is one of the most remote places in the world. In its wildest corners, in the Madre de Dios region along the Brazilian border, some indigenous communities continue to live far from modern society. But their solitude is eroding: Loggers are pushing deeper into the forest, searching for increasingly rare s ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, heroes, logging, Peru (all these topics) |
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The Log Days of Bummer
GAO blames Bush administration for high cost of Biscuit timber salvage |
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06 Oct 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| The Log Days of Bummer GAO blames Bush administration for high cost of Biscuit timber salvage The Bush administration, not environmental lawsuits, is to blame for the nearly $11 million cost of a logging project that will salvage only $8.8 million worth of timber, says a new study from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office. After the 2002 Biscuit fire burned almost 500,000 acres in Oregon a ... |
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| Topics: California, logging, news, Oregon, US Forest Service (all these topics) |
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Bird Mentality
New sightings of ivory-billed woodpecker in Florida |
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26 Sep 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Bird Mentality New sightings of ivory-billed woodpecker in Florida Bird researchers have spotted ivory-billed woodpeckers 14 times in the past 18 months in a remote area of the Florida panhandle -- on some occasions, two at the same time -- according to a report in the Canadian online journal Avian Conservation and Ecology. The team of scientists also made some 300 sound recordings of the woodpeckers, fou ... |
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| Topics: Florida, logging, news, North Carolina, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Going to jail for the environment
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Corey McKrill |
11 Aug 2006 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: grassroots activism, logging, Oregon, politics (all these topics) |
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School and Unusual Punishment
Temporary deal struck to prop up rural funding amid logging-revenue decline |
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09 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| School and Unusual Punishment Temporary deal struck to prop up rural funding amid logging-revenue decline What happens if you make funding for rural schools and roads dependent on revenues from a declining resource industry? What's that you say? Nobody would be stupid enough to do that? Ha ha. Readers, meet the federal government. A federal program that had tied rural funding to logging revenue led, as logging revenues ... |
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| Topics: education, logging, news, politics (all these topics) |
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If You Can't Beat 'Em, Cut 'Em
Group tries logging forests to save them |
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07 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| If You Can't Beat 'Em, Cut 'Em Group tries logging forests to save them In order to save logged-over areas from development while improving wildlife habitat and creating jobs, the Virginia-based nonprofit Conservation Fund plans to ... log them more. It's a counterintuitive approach that's raising some hackles in the environmental community. The group has been acquiring thousands of ac ... |
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| Topics: California, environmental non-government organizations, logging, news (all these topics) |
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Biscuits 'n' Crazy
Forest Service will auction off Oregon timber burned by Biscuit fire |
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09 Jun 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Biscuits 'n' Crazy Forest Service will auction off Oregon timber burned by Biscuit fire Enviros have lost a four-year legal battle to keep logging out of Oregon's Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, burned four years ago by the massive Biscuit fire. A federal appeals court has cleared the U.S. Forest Service to auction off rights today to about 400 acres of timber in the forest. The governors ... |
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| Topics: logging, national forests, news, Oregon, US Forest Service (all these topics) |
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Shiver Our Timbers
Washington state timber industry gets exemption from species act |
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07 Jun 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Shiver Our Timbers Washington state timber industry gets exemption from species act For the next 50 years, the Washington state timber industry will be shielded from prosecution under the Endangered Species Act for harming salmon. In return, the industry has agreed to help the fish by leaving more trees standing near critical streams, reducing logging on unstable slopes, and controlling sediment runoff. The deal, signed ... |
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| Topics: fishing, logging, news, Washington (all these topics) |
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Chase to the Cut
House passes bill to speed up salvage logging |
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18 May 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Chase to the Cut House passes bill to speed up salvage logging A bill that would speed up salvage logging in national forests after fires and other natural disasters has passed in the House. Currently, a careful review of wildlife and forest health is required before timber can be salvaged and sold after catastrophes; proponents of the heftily named Forest Emergency Recovery and Research Act say this review takes too darn long, cau ... |
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| Topics: logging, news, politics (all these topics) |
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Pará for the Course
Tarcísio Feitosa da Silva fights illegal logging in the Amazon |
Michelle Nijhuis |
28 Apr 2006 |
Main Dish |
| In the northern Brazilian state of Pará, where the mouth of the Amazon cuts into the continent, illegal logging, industrial farming, and a human-driven cycle of massive wildfires are destroying the tropical forests. Since he was a teenager, Tarcísio Feitosa da Silva has considered it his mission to help protect these forests, and the isolated communities that live within them. Tarcí ... |
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| Topics: Amazon, Brazil, logging (all these topics) |
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