photo: Leo Freitas via flickr Last summer you probably saw a number of encouraging reports showing that deforestation in Brazil was declining. However as Mongabay points out, new satellite data shows that deforestation is again increasing and may be even higher than current imagery indicates…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Brazil’s Deforestation Again Increasing As Economy Improves
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Boreal Forests Losing the Most Ground A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS) concludes that over a million square kilometers of forest were lost around the world between 2000 and 2005, and that both the U.S. and Canada had higher percentages of forest losses than even Brazil (a country long notorious for deforestation). How does it break down?… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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U.S. and Canada Destroyed More Forest Than Brazil Between 2000-2005
photo: Chany Crystal via flickr Though support, both political and financial, for the UN REDD forest protection scheme has been growing, there’s also a growing opposition voice expressing the concern that, though keeping forests standing is a good thing, the REDD program could well run roughshod over the rights of indigenous people as international financiers, corporations and timber companies get involved. Mongabay points out that an alte… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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REDD Forest Protection Program Could Threaten Rights of 350 Million People
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Photo via cletch We kind of already know this – if not intuitively then through past studies – but a new study has shown that when you spend more time out in nature, you feel more alive . Published in this month’s issue of the Journal of Environmental Psychology , the study shows that getting out and communing with nature is better for feeling rejuvenated than reaching for the ever-so-urban cup of coffee. “Nature is fuel for the soul, ” says Ri… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Want to Feel More Alive? Study Shows You Need to Go Outside
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photo: Alexander Torrenegra via flickr Here’s an interesting wrinkle on the ongoing effort to slow Amazon deforestation: Reuters reports that even though tree-felling is indeed slowing , the area of land being burned by farmers is actua… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Hidden From Satellites, Amazon Burning Continues Even As Deforestation Slows
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The video above, courtesy TckTckTck , explains one of the under-the-radar issues that was present all through the COP15 talks and now is re-emerging at the Bonn climate talks. In short, “A handful of developed nations like Japan, Australia and Germany are playing all… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Rich Nations Want Huge Logging Loophole, While Telling Poor to Reduce Emissions From Deforestation (Video)
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