Cocaine production Driving Deforestation Into Colombian National Park
René Mora – The illegal cultivation of coca and its manufacture into cocaine appears to be coming at the cost of the world’s forests.
René Mora – The illegal cultivation of coca and its manufacture into cocaine appears to be coming at the cost of the world’s forests.
Bong S. Sarmiento – Officials in the southern Philippines have decided to cut down a centuries-old Philippine rosewood tree that’s believed to be the oldest and tallest of its species.
Liz Kimbrough – Up in the cool Mexican mountains, billions of monarch butterflies gather together for the winter.
Shanna Hanbury – Huge swaths of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest are drier than usual after a rainy season well below historical levels.
Sam Cowie – Fear of the spread of COVID-19 by non-indigenous invaders inside Brazil’s indigenous communities has grown in recent days.
Rhett Butler – Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon continues to rise, according to data from Brazil’s national space research institute INPE.
Eduardo Franco Berton – Spread too thin and threatened with violence, park authorities say they’re powerless to stop the onslaught.
Jessica Corbett – After promising to stop deforestation almost 10 years ago, corporations have destroyed nearly 50 million hectares of forest.
John Vibes – Trees have entire ecosystems of nutrient transfer which support the whole forest.
Hans Nicholas Jong – Tropical tree cover loss in many countries has been ramping up in recent years, including in Brazil.
Sharon Kelly, DeSmogBlog Waking Times Last Wednesday, the Washington D.C. city council passed a resolution opposing fracking in the George Washington National Forest, making the nation’s capitol the third major U.S. city, after Los Angeles and Dallas, to decry the hazards of shale drilling in recent days. The D.C. council’s resolution called on the U.S. Forest Service to prohibit …
Frances Moore Lappé, Small Planet Institute Waking Times “If it bleeds, it leads”… ever hear that maxim of journalism? If you want readers, go with the scary, gruesome story — that’s what gets hearts pumping and grabs attention. Yeah, but what grabs our attention can also scare the heck out of us and shut us …
Waking Times – Researchers are concluding that trees are interacting with one another…