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Bono, Russian Rocker Help Halt Controversial Highway through Moscow’s Khimki Forest

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Russian rock star Yury Shevchuk sings in Moscow’s Pushkin Square at an Aug. 22 demonstration to protect Khimki Forest. Photo via RFE/RL . Russian authorities are not known for responding to popular protests, but when one of the country’s most famous musicians and one of the world’s biggest rock stars added their voices to the angry demonstrations against building a highway through an ancient oak forest near

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World’s Largest Urban Forest Was Planted by Hand

Posted on August 22, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo via FrogView From the top of Rio de Janeiro ‘s towering mountain of Corcovado, at the feet of the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue, the high rise urban centers neatly tucked along the shoreline are dwarfed by the rugged natural skyline. On these peaks, for as far as the eye can see, grows the dense jungle of the Tijuca forest — the largest urba… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Avatar Home Tree Initiative Plants Fruit Trees in Haiti and More

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Avatar’s Home Tree Initiative heading to six continents. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Fox James Cameron already planted one million trees in Brazil last April. But the director has said earth needs at least a billion more trees — not a million, and he’s enlisting 15 more countries to follow his lead, including the U.S. That’s not all he’s reprising. His film made more than a billion bucks, and now Avat… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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U.S. Cancels Some of Brazil’s Debt in Exchange For Forest Protection

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo via flickr If only Visa treated my debt the way the U.S. is treating debt from developing countries. On Friday, the Obama Administration announced that it will cancel debt from Brazil in exchange for forest protection. The U.S. has done the same for Bangladesh, Belize, Botswana, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Indonesia, Jamaica, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and the Philippines. Deforestation accounts for about 20 percent of global warming emissions, making zero deforestation a priority in places like Brazil and Indonesia, which rank third and fourth for GHG emissions, respectively. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Scientists Discover New Bearded Monkey

Posted on August 12, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Photo by Javier García Scientists Thomas Defler, Marta Bueno and Javier García have discovered a new species of monkey in the Caquetá region of southern Colombia. The region, which is part of the Amazon rainforest, had been inaccessible for years due to a violent insurgence. The violence subsided three year… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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When a Tree Falls in the Woods: Giant Trees That Have Left a Mark (Slideshow)

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: °Florian /Flickr Trees provide shelter, anchor the soil against erosion, and process carbon . And, when a tree falls, whether there is a person to see it or not, it leaves a clear mark on the landscape. Sometimes, it becomes a quiet foundation for new life. Other times, it causes damage.

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World’s Mangroves Being Destroyed Four Times Faster Than Other Forests

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Mangroves in Kiribati, photo: UNEP The United Nations Environment Programme and the Nature Conservancy have released the first global assessment in a decade of the state of the world’s mangrove forests and the prognosis isn’t particularly good: The report found that, despite conservation efforts and slowing rates of clearance, mangroves are being cleared at three to four times the rate of other forests…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Walmart, KFC, Burger King Paper Purchases Destroying Indonesia’s Rainforests: Greenpeace

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Patrick Barry via flickr Greenpeace is again pointing a finger the international companies responsible for Indonesian deforestation, and the international brands aiding and abetting them through purchasing their products. This time it’s the Sinar Mas group and their subsidiary Asian Pulp & Paper clearing forest and Walmart, Burger King, Dunkin Donuts, KFC, and other well-known consumer names that are he… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Nepal Temporarily Halts All Logging – More Trees Cut in Last Few Months Than From 2000-2005

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Illegal logging is on the increase in the Terai, the lowland areas of Nepal. Photo: Librex via flickr. A quickie on a seriously shocking situation: As Mongabay and BBC News report, Nepal has announced a two month temporary ban on all logging in the country. This comes as forestry officials learned that in the past few months alone more than 250,000 acres of forest have been cleared. That’s more than was cleared between… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Amazon Deforestation Increases Malaria Rate by 50%

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Wikipedia A new report in the Center for Disease Control’s journal Emerging Infectious Diseases highlights one more bad consequence of Amazon deforestation : In areas that have been cleared of trees incidence of malaria increase nearl… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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