Grist
APRIL 27, 2022
A new United Nations report released Wednesday shows farming, mining, and logging has marred more than half of the planet. The authors stressed that combating the erosion of the world’s lands actually makes a lot of economic sense: More than half of the global economy — about $44 trillion a year — relies on the natural world.
Grist
JULY 11, 2023
Although the event was exceedingly abnormal — a 1-in-1,000-year event in today’s climate, according to some estimates — researchers say that without global warming it would have been at least 150 times rarer and several degrees cooler. Earlier this month, Earth logged its seven hottest days ever.
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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. REFERENCES.
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
These critics argue that thinning is a ploy to increase commercial logging and that severe wildfires are critical for forest health and biodiversity. This means that every time we do something in the forest, we ask, ‘What is in the best interest of animals, plants, soil, water, air, and humans?’ Into this destruction stepped John Muir.
AGreenLiving
DECEMBER 29, 2021
None of the seven countries source significant oil from their own soil, but the resulting Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance gives other nations and regions a platform to join the effort. Plus, land requirements for production results in damaging the soil. You can read more at 7 countries vow to end new oil and gas exploration.
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). C scenarios according to the IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C
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