Comment on this story Comment Someone, sometime, had driven or shoved the Volkswagen Golf off the edge of a Southeast Washington parking lot into the scrappy stand of woods below. On a wet day a few weeks before Christmas, Nathan Harrington stood in a pile of fallen leaves looking atContinue Reading
Conserving Forests for a Sustainable Future For Prelims: Forests in India, Illegal logging, Mining, Soil conservation, Carbon sequestration, Sundarbans mangrove, Gond tribes, National Forest Policy of India, Forest Conservation Act 1980, National Afforestation Programme, Environment Protection Act of 1986, Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights)Continue Reading
Bubbles stream furiously behind Frank Hurd as he gently parts the curtains of giant kelp. Green and gold ribbons reach upwards through the cold waters of the Pacific Ocean towards the sun. Hurd, a marine biologist with environmental organisation the Nature Conservancy, is diving in a kelp forest off AnacapaContinue Reading
Charlie Jaay explores a terrifying crisis within a crisis — misplaced and misleading tree-planting initiatives which, rather than mitigating the climate emergency, compound it, threatening communities and ecosystems. Each year, 10 million hectares of natural forest are lost worldwide, while fast growing industrial monoculture plantations of uniform species rapidly expand.Continue Reading
For the first time ever at a climate summit, the final text of this month’s COP27 included a “forests” section and a reference to “nature-based solutions,” — recognizing the important role nature can play in curbing human-caused climate change. But it’s too early to declare a victory for forests. ByContinue Reading
At COP26 during the World Leaders Summit Forest Day session on November 2, 2021, the United States announced the Plan to Conserve Global Forests: Critical Carbon Sinks . This decade-long, whole-of-government Plan sets forth the U.S. approach to conserving critical global terrestrial carbon sinks, deploying a range of diplomatic, policy, andContinue Reading
Companies are under increasing pressure from regulators to report on their biodiversity impacts The Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures recently produced draft guidance, ‘the closest we’ve got to agreed best practice’, according to CDP’s Thomas Maddox Efforts by governments, environmental groups and companies to address deforestation in landscapes, suchContinue Reading
Rejoso watershed, at the foot of Mount Bromo in East Java, Indonesia, provides strategic ecosystem services, including the Umbulan Spring that lies downstream. In 2021, President Joko Widodo inaugurated a clean water system from the spring, which now supplies water to over 1.6 million people in the surrounding districts andContinue Reading
The Applegate Valley is a beautiful part of Southern Oregon, full of small towns, local vineyards and home to threatened species like the Northern Spotted Owl. Standing in the hills west of town, George Sexton unfolds a large paper map of the valley, and points to a winding, rocky road.Continue Reading
Washington, D.C. (July 20, 2022) — Data from a new paper published today in Current Biology has identified a new phenomenon in the Brazilian coast: freshwater mangroves. These unique freshwater mangroves were found along the Amazon Delta and provide proof of ecosystem adaptability to the Amazon river flow. This studyContinue Reading
