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Replanting logged forests with diverse mixtures of seedlings accelerates restoration, says study

Envirotec Magazine

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.

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Environmental Racism is at the Heart of Europe’s Continued Coal Use

DeSmogBlog

Still Burning: Coal, Colonialism & Resistance details how governments and citizens are increasingly unwilling to tolerate coal mining’s extensive damage to human health and ecosystems within Europe’s borders. But it’s also home to the Shor and Teleut indigenous minorities, as the book highlights.

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Environmental Racism is at the Heart of Europe’s Continued Coal Use

DeSmogBlog

Still Burning: Coal, Colonialism & Resistance details how governments and citizens are increasingly unwilling to tolerate coal mining’s extensive damage to human health and ecosystems within Europe’s borders. But it’s also home to the Shor and Teleut indigenous minorities, as the book highlights.

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Don’t Look Down

Grist

Lenniger lives in a log cabin in Goldstream Valley, a spruce-lined swale with a rolling view of the Northern Lights near Fairbanks. Sometimes, only a thin layer of soil covers yawning craters where the ice has vanished, what Hasson calls “ghost ice wedges.” student at the nearby University of Alaska Fairbanks, or UAF.

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SDG15: How can businesses best protect life on land?

Business Green

And the economic losses and climate impacts that are resulting from deforestation, soil erosion, and pollution continue to rack up. However, there is a growing body of thought on how best to measure and minimise environmental impacts, before then developing strategies that can actually enhance the health of life on land.

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Learning how to garden a forest

Grist

Since then, Pepperwood has provided a model of how combining science with local Indigenous research , knowledge, and practices can restore forest health and resiliency while mitigating the growing frequency and severity of fires. Jessie Blaeser That slow progress follows unprecedented government investment in wildfire resilience.

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Over $50bn is at risk from deforestation - but just one per cent of firms are taking 'best practice' action

Business Green

Bold and transformative action is needed to tackle environmental challenges such as deforestation and climate change, and to protect the health of our planet and global communities.". Our businesses are already acting through our day-today operations.