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ENN: Top Stories (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Brazil will launch a satellite in 2011 to monitor deforestation and urban expansion around the world, it has been announced. Amazônia-1 will carry a UK-made high resolution camera. The United Kingdom?Brazil collaboration was announced last week (14 July) at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Society for Progress in Science.
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tahrcountry (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Environmental campaigners had always criticized the way World Bank doled out aid to developing countries. They have been consistently arguing that it has led to deforestation in the tropics. Here is proof that they were right in voicing their concern. World banks bank’s Independent Evaluation Group has criticized the bank for failures to grasp fully the environmental impacts of its programmes in poor...
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www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | yesterday
Environmental science news. Learn about current research into rainforest deforestation, sustainable development, energy use, air quality monitoring, mining processes and hazardous Source: www.sciencedaily.com BBC NEWS | Science/NatureVisit BBC News for up-to-the-minute news, breaking news, video, audio and feature stories. BBC News provides trusted World and UK news as well as local and regional perspectives.Source:...
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OTB News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Brazil’s president signed two new decrees Tuesday aimed at cracking down on illegal deforestation in the Amazon.
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worldwide-news.net (Free subscription) | yesterday
Brazil’s president signed two new decrees Tuesday aimed at cracking down on illegal deforestation in the Amazon. Go to news source
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | yesterday
Deforestation, a major contributor to climate change, is still rampant globally and European Union countries are guilty of compounding the problem according to a new WWF report. Almost one-fifth of wood imported into the European Union in 2006 came from illegal or suspected illegal sources, with Russia, Indonesia and China being the main sources according [...]
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ENN: Top Stories (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Deforestation, a major contributor to climate change, is still rampant globally and European Union countries are guilty of compounding the problem according to a new WWF report. Almost one-fifth of wood imported into the European Union in 2006 came from illegal or suspected illegal sources, with Russia, Indonesia and China being the main sources according to the report - Illegal Wood for the European...
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EarthWire Africa RSS News Feed (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Fourteen states have been selected as the first developing country members of an innovative partnership and international financing mechanism to combat tropical deforestation and climate change.
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the optimum population trust blog (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
In a visit to Australia, the Pope expressed concern at the squandering of natural resources and the insatiable demands of consumer society. “Reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our earth, erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world’s mineral and ocean resources in order to fuel an insatiable [...]
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Driive (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
news We have witnessed quite a few industrialists clearing up jungles to build their manufacturing and production facilities. Possibly, production is the best and the most reliable path to accomplish growth and contribute to an economy, but the trade-offs are hazardous. Large scale deforestation, depletion of natural resources in that region and the quota of pollution that arrives out of the plant...
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YubaNet.com (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
With global concern growing over deforestation, loss of carbon stored in forests and the role of forests in climate change, the spotlight has been turned on forest monitoring in a bid to safeguard forests and monitor emissions from deforestation.
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Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
In Rome, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said that they are proceeding with planning the Global Forest Resources Assessment, scheduled for 201, which will use remote sensing to create a baseline of data on deforestation, afforestation, and natural forest expansion since 1990. The project will establish a framework and methodology for monitoring forest resources and [...]
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Jonathon Porritt (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
As I mentioned in my blog on June 11th (Protecting the Rainforests), there is a great buzz at the moment about REDD – Reducing Emissions (of CO2 ) from Deforestation and Degradation. This is great, and getting something sorted on...
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Pope Benedict called on Thursday for the earth to be protected for future generations, saying the world had been "scarred" with erosion and deforestation and its oceans squandered to fuel an insatiable consumption.
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OTB News (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict called on Thursday for the earth to be protected for future generations, saying the world had been “scarred” with erosion and deforestation and its oceans squandered to fuel an insatiable consumption.
