Forest Stewardship Council Furthers Conservation Cause, Warts And All
FSC has certified 500+ million acres of forest as sustainably harvested since its inception in 1993, but critics wonder if the group’s claims can be trusted.
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Amazon Burning: What Can We Do To Stop Spreading Wildfires?
The Amazon rainforest of South America is burning at an unprecedented rate. What can we to stop these forest fires from spreading?
Saving the Tongass National Forest
Although it often feels like environmentalists are purveyors of catastrophe, stories of saving precious wilderness abound. One of these is Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the largest relatively intact rainforest in North America which makes up about 14 percent of the global temperate rainforest…
Brazil’s Big Dry Up
This short video and the article that follows by Swedish filmmaker/writer Geir Hansteen Jorgensen shows how deforestation and global warming have combined to plunge Brazil into a record drought… The Brazil record-drought from 2014 continues and looks to be intensifying in 2015. At peak rain season hopes about January rains filling the water reservoirs evaporated. Drought is affecting most […]