by faster | Mar 6, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: March 6, 2019 SNIP: Australia’s forests are being reshaped by climate change as droughts, heatwaves, rising temperatures and bushfires drive ecosystems towards collapse, ecologists have told Guardian Australia. Trees are dying, canopies are...
by faster | Feb 12, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: CBC News DATE: February 12, 2019 SNIP: You might have heard that Canada’s forests are an immense carbon sink, sucking up all sorts of CO2 — more than we produce — so we don’t have to worry about our greenhouse gas emissions. This would be...
by faster | Nov 20, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: New York Times DATE: November 20, 2018 SNIP: A decade ago, the U.S. mandated the use of vegetable oil in biofuels, leading to industrial-scale deforestation — and a huge spike in carbon emissions. The fields outside Kotawaringin village in Central Kalimantan,...
by faster | Nov 17, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: CBC DATE: November 17, 2018 SNIP: Last year, 12,812 hectares of B.C. forest was sprayed with the herbicide glyphosate. It’s an annual event — a mass extermination of broadleaf trees mandated by the province. The eradication of trees like aspen and birch...
by faster | Oct 31, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: October 31, 2018 SNIP: Brazil has just elected as its president a far-right nationalist with authoritarian tendencies and fascist inclinations. The country’s 900,000-strong indigenous people are among the many minority groups Jair Bolsonaro...