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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

In the fight against climate change, the $300-billion U.S. logging and woods products industry has positioned itself as a purveyor of “natural climate solutions.” In 2020, the CEOs of dozens of forestry businesses announced “an agreement of principles” stipulating that logged forests are beneficial for the climate.

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Why is the idea of the Anthropocene so contentious?

Grist

The atmospheric chemist had won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for demonstrating how humanity was destroying the ozone layer, just one of the many ways people had radically altered the planet, from urbanization to releasing greenhouse gases. Since the Industrial Revolution, climate change has warmed the globe by 2 degrees Fahrenheit (1.2

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Why should the Scottish woodlands be protected?

AGreenLiving

Although Scotland is more heavily forested than England or Wales, much of its woodlands have been lost to logging, urban sprawl and climate change. Reforestation has thereby become an important tool in combatting Earth’s climate emergency. Why has reforestation become important in recent years?