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Showing posts with label forests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label forests. Show all posts
Wednesday, 9 September 2020

Water wars: How conflicts over resources are set to rise amid climate change: World Economic Forum

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Water shortages for one in four children in areas of extreme water shortage by 2040    • From erratic rainfall to severe droughts,...
Tuesday, 25 August 2020

The End of the Environment: Bob Brown.: The Saturday Paper (excerpt)

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.... "The prime minister’s post-Covid-19 plan is to roar ahead with a slate of mega-projects that would be delayed by any Lib...
Saturday, 22 August 2020

Legal challenge to native forest logging in Tasmania might succeed

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"BIG NEWS ! This court case could be a watershed moment in ending the taxpayer-subsidised destruction of Tasmania’s precious nat...
Sunday, 22 March 2020

State MPs dismayed at NSW Forestry logging unburnt habitat after bushfires: The Guardian

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Endangered species have lost up to 82% of their habitat but Environment Protection Authority says logging of unburnt forest is legal ...
Saturday, 5 October 2019

Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot make short film on the climate crisis

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Environmental activists Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot have helped produce a short film highlighting the need to protect, restore ...
Wednesday, 11 September 2019

Time to rethink Australia's fire fighting resources.

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📷 : Bindi Cox Our wildfires are taking lives, destroying homes and infrastructure and stressing our rural communities.  Our firefig...
Monday, 9 September 2019

What if we stopped pretending Climate Change could be prevented.

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"All-out war on climate change made sense only as long as it was winnable. Once you accept that we’ve lost it, other kinds of actio...

For Pope Francis, a Perfect Moment for an Unsettling Warning on the Environment: NYT

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"Pope Francis used his first full day in Madagascar to hammer the same point home. “Your lovely island of Madagascar is rich in ...
Saturday, 31 August 2019

Video - Kalang: protecting this NSW forest

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Conservation of our existing forests is essential to combat climate catastrophe. Whether the tree is in The Amazon or in NSW it is essentia...
Tuesday, 20 August 2019

New climate change report underscores the need to manage land for the short and long term: SciFiGeneration

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In its latest report , the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change describes how agriculture, deforestation, and other human activitie...
Wednesday, 14 August 2019

Forests, logging and climate change: IA

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Logging has a serious effect on climate change, writes Frances Pike . THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL for Climate Change ( IPCC ) recomm...
Wednesday, 7 August 2019

Want to beat climate change? Protect our natural forests: The Conversation

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Tomorrow a special report on how land use affects climate change will be released by the Intergove...
Saturday, 20 July 2019

Can planting trees save our climate?

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In recent weeks, a new study by researchers at ETH Zurich has hit the headlines worldwide ( Bastin et al. 2019 ). It is about trees. T...
Friday, 12 July 2019

How to erase 100 years of carbon emissions? Plant trees—lots of them.

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Increasing the Earth’s forests by an area the size of the United States would cut atmospheric carbon dioxide 25 percent.  PUBLISHED J...