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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)

Regular oil cleaner than ethanol Saving and restoring forests better for climate than switching to biofuels	Glenn Hurowitz	20 Aug 2007	Gristmill
A new study in the journal Science ($ub req'd) validates what many have been saying here in Gristmill: Biofuels, especially those from the tropics, are far worse for the planet than regular old crude oil. The study finds that we could reduce global warming pollution two to nine times more by conserving or restoring forests and grasslands than by razing them and turning them into biofuels plantations -- even if we continue to use fossil fuels as our main source o ...
Topics: biofuels, climate, deforestation, energy, ethanol, greenhouse-gas emissions, oil, rainforests (all these topics)

Environmental charity Fairness tradeoff?	Gar Lipow	07 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Sven Wunder, a researcher with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), notes the following trade-off [PDF] for the kind of environmental charity where people are paid not to pollute. His conclusion: we are better off paying the moderately bad guys than the really bad guys or the good guys. I'm going to post this without further comment, because either you see hidden assumptions and problems with this, or you don't: From the February 2007 issue of Conserv ...
Topics: agriculture, biodiversity, deforestation, rainforests (all these topics)

George Soros vs. the planet Soros, Goldman Sachs financing destruction of Brazilian forests	Glenn Hurowitz	02 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Well, that whole beating George Bush thing in 2004 didn't work out, so now billionaire financier / Democratic fundraiser / anti-Communist crusader George Soros is back to his first love: making money -- apparently even when it comes at the expense of the planet. Sabrina Valle of the Washington Post is reporting that Soros is one of the biggest investors in growing sugarcane ethanol in the Brazilian cerrado, 'a vast plateau where temperatures range from freezing to ...
Topics: biofuels, Brazil, business, carbon sequestration, consumerism, deforestation, ethanol, rainforests, wildlife (all these topics)

Brazil ...	David Roberts	31 Jul 2007	Gristmill
... realizes that global warming is going to hurt it too, and starts to come around on the notion of market mechanisms that could prevent further deforestation in the Amazon, one of the principal global sources of greenhouse gas emissions.This is good news -- it needs to become more profitable to save the forest than to cut it down, and quickly.
Topics: Brazil, climate, climate change mitigation, deforestation, greenhouse-gas emissions, rainforests (all these topics)

Truth in the Tongass Gathering data in the U.S.' largest temperate rainforest a heroic and necessary task	Erik Hoffner	03 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Hiking part of the Tongass National Forest in southeastern Alaska a few summers ago, I was utterly wowed, but knowing that it accounts for nearly one-third of the old-growth temperate rain forest left in the world seemed incredibly incongruent with the fact that my government was working so hard to wreck it (thanks to some truly absurd subsidies). An excellent story in the new National Geographic retells the tale and shines light on new efforts aimed at allowing the ...
Topics: Alaska, deforestation, logging, national forests, rainforests (all these topics)

Low-hanging fruit Dirt cheap carbon	biodiversivist	08 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Great interview over on Mongabay with Daniel Nepstad, head of the Woods Hole Research Center's Amazon program. When it comes to immediate carbon emissions reductions, the biggest bang for the buck is to stop deforestation of the tropics. This revelation would have much less relevance if there were not also a mechanism envisioned to achieve it called the RED initiative (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation). As with anything, the concept has its critics. In my unqu ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, deforestation, greenhouse-gas emissions, rainforests (all these topics)

Heads You Lose, Tails I Win World Bank has been OKing illegal logging in the Congo, says Greenpeace study		12 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Heads You Lose, Tails I Win World Bank has been OKing illegal logging in the Congo, says Greenpeace study You've probably developed an immunity to scandal and outrage, but we'll keep plying you with it anyway: a two-year study by Greenpeace International has found that in the past three years, Congolese village chiefs have handed over vast expanses of the world's second-largest rainforest to Eu ...
Topics: business, Congo, Greenpeace, news, rainforests, World Bank (all these topics)

Information More, please	David Roberts	30 Mar 2007	Gristmill
This is a much more significant story than it might appear at first glance: Brazil's government said it will provide free Internet access to native Indian tribes in the Amazon in an effort to help protect the world's biggest rain forest. The environment and communications ministers signed an agreement Thursday with the Forest People's Network to provide an Internet signal by satellite to 150 communities, including many reachable only by riverboat, allowing them ...
Topics: Brazil, deforestation, environmental movement, rainforests (all these topics)

Wheee!	David Roberts	27 Mar 2007	Gristmill
More alarmism from scientists: By the end of the century up to two fifths of the land surface of the Earth will have a hotter climate unlike anything that currently exists, according to a study that predicts the effects of global warming on local and regional climates. And in the worst case scenario, the climatic conditions on another 48% of the land surface will no longer exist on the planet at all. The changes - which will have a devastating affect on biodivers ...
Topics: biodiversity, climate, climate change impacts, rainforests (all these topics)

Ag giant's Amazon plans go terminal Why bother filing an EIS for a biodiversity-destroying project?	Erik Hoffner	27 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Ag giant Cargill was forced to close a soy export terminal in the Brazilian Amazon this weekend, marking a major victory for greens, who have argued for years that the plant was built illegally and became a significant cause of rainforest depletion. The terminal spurred a major leap in soy production -- millions of acres of rainforest were turned over to soy bean fields -- which is used principally to supply European livestock farms. Ironically, it was closed not bec ...
Topics: business, industrial ag, rainforests (all these topics)

The Neverending Tory Canada's leaders bring back green program, announce rainforest fund		23 Jan 2007	Daily Grist
The Neverending Tory Canada's leaders bring back green program, announce rainforest fund When Canada's Conservative Party took power a year ago, Prime Minister Stephen Harper put a variety of environmental programs on hold -- only to find out that, oops, his constituents actually want a livable earth. Under pressure from citizens Canuck, Harper's cabinet is hyping green initiatives both new and recyc ...
Topics: Canada, news, politics, rainforests, renewable energy (all these topics)

Doing a Heckuva Job An interview with Australian politician and rabble-rouser Bob Brown	Gregory Dicum	04 Jan 2007	Main Dish
Bob Brown goes to great heights to protect his homeland. Photo: Rainforest Action Network Bob Brown looks a caricature of an Australian senator: a bit disheveled in a rumpled gray suit, unfashionable glasses, and a goofy grin. But a little rumple goes a long way. In a career that has spanned three decades, Brown has brought new awareness of environmental and human rights into the ...
Topics: Australia, interview, politics, rainforests (all these topics)

Not Your Average Bear In B.C., a landmark rainforest-protection agreement was just the beginning	Gregory Dicum	01 Nov 2006	Main Dish
It took 10 years of work to protect British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest. Photos: Gregory Dicum The Great Bear Rainforest, stretching from Vancouver Island to the Alaska Panhandle on the wild, rugged coast of British Columbia, is that rarest of things: an unvarnished environmental victory. But as the groundbreaking agreement signed to protect it comes into force, new ...
Topics: Canada, rainforests (all these topics)

Pretty in Sink Carbon trading market could help save rainforests		24 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Pretty in Sink Carbon trading market could help save rainforests Rainforests are worth far more intact, acting as carbon sinks, than if they're cleared for farmland or pasture, the World Bank said yesterday, and therefore countries should be compensated for keeping trees standing. Enter: the global carbon market, where polluters must pay to offset excessive carbon dioxide emissions. The World Bank's Kenneth Chomitz ...
Topics: climate, news, rainforests, World Bank (all these topics)

A Spoonful of Sugal Cheri Sugal, defender of a Mexican rainforest, InterActivates		16 Oct 2006	Daily Grist

Topics: environmental non-government organizations, Mexico, rainforests (all these topics)

The Artful Roger Roger Mustalish, Amazon researcher and protector, answers readers' questions		05 May 2006	InterActivist
Roger Mustalish, head of ACEER. Can you describe an animal from the Amazon ecosystem and another animal from the Andes ecosystem whose status illustrates a particular environmental threat to those regions?�� -- Mark Stephen Caponigro, New York, N.Y. Globally, including in the tropics, we are losing amphibians at an alarming rate; many species are headed to extinction. Other than habitat los ...
Topics: Amazon, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, Peru, rainforests (all these topics)

Roger That Roger Mustalish, Amazon researcher and protector, answers Grist's questions		01 May 2006	InterActivist
Roger Mustalish. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? I'm president of the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research Foundation, a U.S. nonprofit with offices in West Chester, Penn., and in Iquitos and Puerto Maldonado, Peru. What does your organization do? ACEER's mission is to promote environmental conservation by being a catalyst for awareness, understanding, act ...
Topics: Amazon, environmental non-government organizations, InterActivist, interview, Peru, rainforests (all these topics)

Eden Come, Eden Go Climate change threatens newly discovered tropical paradise		10 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Eden Come, Eden Go Climate change threatens newly discovered tropical paradise One short month ago, the world thrilled to the news that researchers had discovered an untouched jungle in the Foja Mountains of New Guinea in Indonesia, full of unknown or rare plants and critters. Now -- you saw this coming, right? -- a U.S. climate scientist has warned that global warming may wipe out many of the forest's species before ...
Topics: climate, Indonesia, news, rainforests (all these topics)

Singin' in the Rainforest Deal will protect vast Great Bear Rainforest in Canada		07 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Singin' in the Rainforest Deal will protect vast Great Bear Rainforest in Canada We love the smell of vast tracts of protected rainforest in the morning. Smells like ... victory. Today in British Columbia, Canada, a coalition including the provincial government, Native groups, forest advocates, and timber companies is expected to announce an unprecedented agreement to protect the 15 million-acre Great Bear Rainforest -- fully a q ...
Topics: Canada, news, rainforests (all these topics)

Para Normal Violence against activists continues in the Brazilian rainforest		08 Dec 2005	Daily Grist
Para Normal Violence against activists continues in the Brazilian rainforest A trial begins in Brazil tomorrow for two men accused of murdering Dorothy Stang, a U.S.-born nun who had spent 30 years in the Amazon opposing illegal ranching and logging that razed the rainforest and displaced peasant farmers. But despite promises from Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva after her death that he would rein in violence in the ...
Topics: Brazil, news, rainforests (all these topics)

See the Forest for the Fees Tropical nations want payment for protecting carbon-sinking rainforests		29 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
See the Forest for the Fees Tropical nations want payment for protecting carbon-sinking rainforests "Cough up the dough, Mr. West, or the forest gets it!" OK, we're being a little dramatic. But a group of 10 developing nations has made it clear this week at the U.N. climate summit in Montreal that it wants a little ... inducement ... to preserve its rainforests. The "Rainforest Coal ...
Topics: climate, Costa Rica, news, Papua New Guinea, rainforests (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)

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)

Leaf Those Plants Alone An African wildlife reserve is saved, thanks to Corneille Ewango	Michelle Nijhuis	19 Apr 2005	Main Dish
Corneille Ewango. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. In the vast Democratic Republic of the Congo, dense equatorial rainforests line the sprawling basin of the Congo River. Corneille E.N. Ewango, a Congolese botanist, has a particular appreciation for these lush stands, which represent about half of the continent's tropical forests. To him, they are a scientific puzzle, a ref ...
Topics: Congo, rainforests (all these topics)

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