Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
Satellite observations of one of the world’s biggest ecological experiments on the island of Borneo appear to reveal that replanting logged forests with diverse mixtures of seedlings can significantly accelerate their recovery. Restoring logged tropical forests is a crucial component of efforts to tackle both the nature and climate crises.
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Forests are crucial for the health and economies of our planet, but they must be better planned, managed and monitored to ensure sustainable benefits for people as well as nature,” he said. He said careful planning of future forest projects could boost the biodiversity of species, carbon sinks, economic development and people’s livelihoods.
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Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Collecting data on seagrass health (image courtesy of Seawilding). During its inaugural event in May 2023, a team of volunteers scuba dived, snorkelled and strolled the coastline, searching for evidence of seagrass and logging their results. Despite their benefits, seagrass habitats are under threat from a variety of factors.
Grist
JULY 14, 2020
But conservation areas are often vulnerable to illegal logging, poaching, mining, and other activities that threaten biodiversity. Sound has long been used by soundscape ecologists to assess biodiversity and other metrics of ecosystem health. You don’t have that sort of reliance in unsupervised methods.”.
GreenBiz
MAY 3, 2021
Leading companies, including tech firms Microsoft and Akamai, are expanding their focus into new realms — ones that explore the intersection of sustainability and human health, or that allow employees to take action to reduce their own impact at home and in the communities where they live.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 21, 2020
This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. You lose the wildlife and biodiversity of what you previously had in a natural forest. Danielle Purifoy.
Grist
JUNE 29, 2022
logging and woods products industry has positioned itself as a purveyor of “natural climate solutions.” As our civilization begins the slow process of jettisoning fossil energy, logging interests assure us that wood products are not a retrogression but a way forward. This rosy view of logging, however, is hotly contested.
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