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Return to Forest & Tengchong Reforestation Projects Recognized at Copenhagen Event

The Return to Forest Project and Tengchong Conservation Carbon Project were honored at an event Wednesday concurrent with the UN Copenhagen climate conference. The What is Missing? Foundation recognized the two reforestation projects among projects helping to restore or provide habitats and protecting biodiversity. The foundation is named after Vietnam Veterans Memorial architect Maya Lin’s [...]

Pests on the Rise in a Warmer World

The effects of global warming will be far reaching and pervasive. But what does that really mean? Well, you can’t really explain it in one blog post, but you can give a great example that will make you squirm: a warmer world means more pests.
An AP article offers its insights on some of the bugs [...]

Kimberly-Clark Announces Major Victory for Forests this week

Kimberly-Clark has set a goal to source all of its paper goods from sustainably-forested or recycled wood. That means the next time you buy any paper product from them—even their flagship brand Kleenex—you’ll know that even trees can get victories these days.
Here are the details:

By the end of 2011, Kimberly-Clark will [...]

Saving Rainforests and the REDD Program

An article published in Mongabay goes deep into the international issues surrounding REDD, or “reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation,” a program that seeks to make forests economically valuable as living entities.
The shocking image to the right shows deforestation-induced erosion in Madagascar from October 2004. Without a plan to stop the deforestation of our [...]

Time-Lapse Video of Rainforest Deforestation

Watch as almost 70,000 square kilometers disappear in the Amazon rainforest. Over the past three decade, almost 35% of the rainforest in the state of Rondônia in western Brazil has been cleared—an area larger than the state of West Virginia—and NASA satellites have captured it all.

The images show “the most typical pattern” of deforestation [...]