Biodiversity Global warming Logging Soil 
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. Some debris from felling must be left on the forest floor to maintain soil condition and biodiversity.
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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. Soil quality and quantity are maintained.
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.
Energy Innovation
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
Advocates point out that large bioenergy systems have the potential to not only displace fossil fuel emissions but sequester carbon in soils of feedstock crops, biochar, or when coupled with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS). (To learn more refer to the past review on negative emissions and land use by John Katzenberger.)
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