Biodiversity Carbon Global warming Logging 
Grist
APRIL 27, 2022
A new United Nations report released Wednesday shows farming, mining, and logging has marred more than half of the planet. If these trends continue, experts expect growing disruptions to human health, food supplies, migration, and biodiversity loss driven by climate change, in what the authors calls a “confluence of unprecedented crises.”.
Low Impact
AUGUST 15, 2021
Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. Burning wood for energy emits more carbon on a per-unit-of-energy basis than burning coal. Carbon Debt. Firewood is the new meat.
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Unsustainable
APRIL 11, 2020
Extensive logging of the trees in the past three or so decades has been a major contributor to the current situation in which a healthy mangrove ecosystem in Kenya is in danger. Continued deforestation of mangrove areas disturbs habitats and damages biodiversity, a key effect of this being the decline in fishery yields.
Green Market Oracle
JULY 13, 2020
Recent studies from from the world’s top climate modeling groups suggest that high clouds that shade the Earth during the day may burn off as the world warms increasing global warming. The coronavirus shutdown caused CO2 emissions to decrease by a global average of 17 percent in April, but they are surging again.
AGreenLiving
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
Although Scotland is more heavily forested than England or Wales, much of its woodlands have been lost to logging, urban sprawl and climate change. Planting trees encourages the absorption of carbon dioxide, one of the key greenhouse gases responsible for global warming. Flood risks are alleviated.
Grist
AUGUST 17, 2023
This array of species and surfaces reduces fire intensity and promotes biodiversity. These critics argue that thinning is a ploy to increase commercial logging and that severe wildfires are critical for forest health and biodiversity. Prescribed-fire professionals ignite cultural burns. Into this destruction stepped John Muir.
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
trillion market value makes it the most valuable company in the world, logging sales of oil and gas worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year. In the past, the company has under-reported its carbon footprint by as much as 50 percent in an effort to attract investors. And the captured carbon is often merely used to extract more oil.
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