forests

New Maps Show Best Places for Global Reforestation: Study

New Maps Show Best Places for Global Reforestation: Study

Researchers have revealed new maps that show the best places to regrow forests across the world to tackle the climate crisis. The areas include western Canada, the eastern United States, Colombia, Brazil and Europe. They add up to a total of 482 million acres that, if reforested, would remove 2.43 million tons of carbon dioxide […]

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    World’s Richest Nations Are ‘Exporting Extinction’ With Demand for Agricultural and Forestry Imports: Study

    World’s Richest Nations Are ‘Exporting Extinction’ With Demand for Agricultural and Forestry Imports: Study

    The richest countries in the world are “exporting extinction” by destroying 15 times more biodiversity globally than they do within their own borders, according to a new Princeton University study. The researchers found that 13.3 percent of biodiversity loss worldwide came from the consumption of high-income countries, a press release from Princeton said. “Biodiversity loss […]

    Successful Land Restoration Results Would Require Less Than 0.27% of Global Annual GDP, Study Finds

    Successful Land Restoration Results Would Require Less Than 0.27% of Global Annual GDP, Study Finds

    Fulfilling current land restoration pledges in 115 countries would require only a small amount of the global annual GDP, a recent analysis has found. Successful implementation would require about 0.04% to 0.27% of global annual GDP, totaling about $311 billion to $2.1 trillion. The researchers analyzed costs of 243 land restoration projects happening globally and […]

    UK Cuts Subsidies for Drax Power Station in Half, Saying It Must Burn 100% Sustainable Biomass

    UK Cuts Subsidies for Drax Power Station in Half, Saying It Must Burn 100% Sustainable Biomass

    The United Kingdom has announced new reduced subsidies for its controversial Drax power station, which had been previously converted to burning wood biomass from coal. The North Yorkshire plant is an important source of energy for the country, but has received criticism because of sustainability concerns, in addition to Drax Group plc’s enormous profits, reported […]

    Amphibious Mouse Among 27 New Animal Species Found by Peruvian Amazon Expedition

    Amphibious Mouse Among 27 New Animal Species Found by Peruvian Amazon Expedition

    Researchers in northwest Peru’s Alto Mayo region have discovered 27 new animal species, including a semi-aquatic mouse, a salamander that climbs trees and a “blob-headed fish.” The 38-day survey uncovered and recorded more than 2,000 species of plants and wildlife, reported The Guardian. “Discovering even one new species of mammal on an expedition would be […]

    COP16 to Address Global Land Degradation and Desertification Begins in Saudi Arabia

    COP16 to Address Global Land Degradation and Desertification Begins in Saudi Arabia

    Following the recent United Nations biodiversity and climate conferences, the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) began Monday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with the goal of tackling drought, desertification and land degradation. The UN has found that, in order to restore the planet’s degraded lands and prevent […]

    Wildland-Urban Interface Areas Have Increased by More Than 35% in the Past Two Decades, Study Finds

    Wildland-Urban Interface Areas Have Increased by More Than 35% in the Past Two Decades, Study Finds

    Over the course of the last several decades, people seeking to move out of populated areas have been increasingly building homes in neighboring wildlands. Wildland-urban interface (WUI) — places where human development meets undeveloped natural areas like grasslands, deserts or forests — grew by 35.6 percent from 2000 to 2020, according to new research led […]