by faster | Oct 28, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian and Live Science DATE: October 28, 2020 SNIP: The Trump administration has announced it will lift protections in Alaska’s Tongass national forest, permitting logging in the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest. Experts call the Tongass the...
by faster | Oct 23, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: Phys.org DATE: October 23, 2020 SNIP: In July, Indonesia’s state-owned oil company, Pertamina, produced its first batch of biofuel made entirely from palm oil. Called D100, this “green diesel” is part of Indonesia’s strategy to promote...
by faster | Oct 9, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: The Narwhal DATE: October 9, 2020 SNIP: Sean O’Rourke was hiking in B.C.’s globally rare inland rainforest this spring when pink flagging tape indicating a planned cutblock caught his eye. Finding flagging tape is nothing new, but when he looked closer, he...
by faster | Sep 24, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: September 24, 2020 SNIP: The Trump administration has announced it will move forward with a plan to roll back regulations protecting millions of acres in America’s largest national forest from logging, sparking an outcry from environmental...
by faster | Jul 13, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: Inside Climate News DATE: July 13, 2020 SNIP: In rural Southern towns from Virginia to Texas, mill workers are churning out wood pellets from nearby forests as fast as European power plants, thousands of miles away, can burn them. On this side of the Atlantic,...