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Replanting logged forests with diverse mixtures of seedlings accelerates restoration, says study

Envirotec Magazine

The experiment was set up by the University of Oxford’s Professor Andy Hector and colleagues over twenty years ago as part of the SE Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP). Between 2004 and 2017, 43 million hectares of tropical forest were lost – an area roughly the size of Morocco (WWF).

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The disease after tomorrow

Grist

Many of us have spent the last two-and-a-half years worried about the health risks posed by other people. As the climate warms, more health risks will come not only from other people, but increasingly from the environment around us. They come from bugs, shellfish, and even soil. Since 2014, cases of the virus in the U.S.

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Can a tiger change its stripes? Meet the pulp and paper giant bankrolling a huge Sumatran rainforest reserve

Business Green

APRIL Group - or Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Ltd, to give it its full name - is a massive manufacturer of wood pulp and fiber, the basis of myriad everyday products from office printing paper and packaging to tea bags and viscose fabrics. It is in many ways a remarkable economic success story.