Eco Friendly & Sustainable Living
forests, Tag
- Clean energy debate gets dirty as Daintree community split over renewable power microgrid Thu, 13 Jun 19, 5:57amIn the close-knit communities nestled amongst World Heritage-listed rainforest, the debate over clean energy gets dirty with stories of propaganda campaigns circling...
- Methane production and emissions in trees and forests Wed, 27 Mar 19, 2:00pmLots and lots of implications for climate models and GHG budgets. From New Phytologist Kristofer R. Covey J. Patrick Megonigal First published: 06 December 2018 https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15624 Summary Forest ecosystem...
- Another climate panic collapses: recent harsh winters have killed off invasive pine beetles thought to be linked to global warming Thu, 28 Feb 19, 1:00amby Dr. Roger Roots, Lysander Spooner University A decade ago, folks in northern states such as Minnesota, South and North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho were watching large swaths of their pine forests die off due to...
- Predicting climate change Sun, 17 Feb 19, 5:00pmUnderstanding carbon cycle feedbacks to predict climate change at large scale From ETH Zurich Thomas Crowther identifies long-disappeared forests available for restoration across the world...
- Deforestation could wipe out over 50 percent of species in Haiti Thu, 17 Jan 19, 4:30amAccording to new research from Temple University scientist Blair Hedges, the Caribbean island nation of Haiti is undergoing a mass extinction event, and the country is close to losing its rich biodiversity...
- A remote, off-grid cabin is elevated off the forest floor with log columns Fri, 16 Nov 18, 9:00amPanama-based architect Jose Isturaín (JiA) has built a beautiful tiny cabin tucked into a remote, mountainous area in Panama. With the help of local builders as well as his own family, Isturaín constructed Cabin 192 atop...
- One for Hundred a furniture company that grows more wood than it uses Fri, 2 Nov 18, 8:00amOne for Hundred, an Austrian furniture company, was founded on the belief that creating furniture doesn’t have to go hand-in-hand with destroying forests...
- Nature-inspired Teak House welcomes Vietnams lush forests indoors Tue, 9 Oct 18, 1:30amArchitect Pham Thanh Huy of Vietnamese design firm 282 Design recently renovated a villa into the Teak House, a Northern European-inspired getaway in the cool highlands of Ngọc Thanh in northern Vietnam...
- The 'Billion Tree Tsunami' is transforming northwestern Pakistan Thu, 28 Jun 18, 2:00amOnce arid hillsides have now become wide swaths of lush green woodland in northwestern Pakistan, where hundreds of millions of trees from 42 different species have been planted as part of the provincial government's "Billion...
- Reforestation in China heralds the return of rare animals Wed, 20 Jun 18, 2:00amIf you plant it, they will come. China is pursuing an ambitious project, underway for decades, to increase the amount of land covered by forests to 23 percent of the country's total land area by the end of the decade. In...
- Wildfires and drought cause national forest closures in New Mexico and Colorado Thu, 14 Jun 18, 3:00amBlazes in Colorado closed the 1.8-million-acre San Juan National Forest this week. The 416 Fire is burning on 25,900 acres and is 15 percent contained, according to a June 13 Facebook post. Meanwhile, in New Mexico, the 1.6-million-acre...
- The growing wine industry is threatening California's Napa Valley Tue, 29 May 18, 2:00amNapa Valley, a world-famous symbol of American excellence in wine, is threatened by too much of a good thing. Ever-increasing wine production has inflicted damage on the region's economy and ecology. The industrialization...
- The Trump Administration just ended the program that monitors carbon emissions Fri, 11 May 18, 12:30amWhile the news media focuses its attention on the withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and the scandals related President Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen, the Trump Administration quietly ended the Carbon Monitoring System...
- The Trump Administration just ended the program that lets us monitor carbon emissions Fri, 11 May 18, 12:30amWhile the news media focuses its attention on the withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal and the scandals related President Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen, the Trump Administration quietly ended the Carbon Monitoring System...
- EPA to consider burning wood a 'carbon neutral' energy source Thu, 26 Apr 18, 2:53amEarlier this week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a new policy which will classify the burning of wood as a 'carbon neutral' fuel source...