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Darfur Conflict Ravages Environment

Reuters | Andrew Heavens | Posted 01.10.2009 | Green

Read More: UNEP, Khartoum, Green News, U.N., Darfur, Environment, Logging, Kunduwa Forest, Sudan, Darfur Sudan, Forests, Deforestation, Green News

Sudan's Darfur conflict has devastated the environment in the region, stripping forests and destroying farmland, according to a U.N. report. People c...

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Poznan Forest Deal Gives A Voice To Residents

AP | ARTHUR MAX | Posted 01.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Poznan, Poznan Climate Change Conference, Poznan Forest Deal, Forests, Deforestation, Environment, Green News

POZNAN, Poland — Negotiators broke an impasse Wednesday on including forest conservation in a new climate change agreement, guaranteeing a voice...

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The Problem With Palm Oil

Michael Brune | Posted 01.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Human Rights, Rain Forests, Orangutans, Environment, Climate Change, Rainforests, Palm Oil, Deforestation, Hsbc, Matt Mckinney, Indonesia, Palm Oil Production, Malaysia, Agribusiness, HSBC Rainforests, Green News

The ubiquity of palm oil in the United States and Europe is driving out the subsistence agriculture that people in Indonesia and Malaysia depend on for food.

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Rain Forests to Headline at Poznan...

Bill Chameides | Posted 01.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Global Warming, Redd, Reducing Deforestation in Developing Countries, Rain Forests, Poznan Climate Change Conference, Deforestation, Kyoto Protocol, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Conference of the Parties, Green News

Dr. Bill Chameides, recently appointed to America's Climate Choices, is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the dean of Duke University's...

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Amazon Deforestation Increases

BBC News | Posted 12.30.2008 | Green

Read More: Amazon Deforestation, Deforestation, Amazon, Green News

Satellite images show 11,968 sq km of land was cleared in the year to July, nearly 4% higher than the year before. The government said the figure was...

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A Federal Cap-And-Trade System: More From The Summit

Paige Donner | Posted 12.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Climate Change, California EPA, Cap and Trade, Carter Roberts, Copenhagen 2009, World Wildlife Fund, Kyoto Protocols, Natalia Anderle, Dan Pellissier, Henry Derwent, Co2, Emissions, Barack Obama, Rggi, Governor Schwarzenegger, Federal Cap and Trade, Miss Brazil 2008, Wwf, Linda Adams, Energy Independence, BrasilInvest Group, Ethanol, International Emissions Trading Associationa, Deforestation, Mario Garnero, United Nations Association Brazil, Governor Schwarzenegger Environmental Policy, Barack Obama Environmental Policy, President Elect Obama, Sustainability, Business News

What's interesting about the governor's climate conference is that you normally would think that international negotiations or solutions are all about Heads of State talking to each another.

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Governors' Global Climate Summit: Thinking As One Planet

Paige Donner | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sebelius, Cap and Trade, World Wildlife Fund, S Renewable Energy, Blagojevich, Governors' Global Climate Summit, Brazil, Nature Conservancy, Executive Order, Renewable Energy, Environm, Eu, Carb, Beverly Hilton, Flex-Fuel, Jim Doyle, Barack Obama, Ental Defense Fund, Canada, Schwarzenegger, Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Indonesia, Poland, Algae Biofuels, Environment, Climate Change, Redd, Copenhagen, Deforestation, China, Crist, Politics News

What was heard at the Governor's Global Climate Summit, held earlier this week in Los Angeles, was a chorus of international voices.

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Macedonians Plant Six Million Trees In Single Day

Reuters | Kole Casule | Posted 12.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Macedonia, Green News, Climate Change, Environment, Balkans, Deforestation, Forests, Global Warming, Trees, Green News

Thousands of Macedonians took to the hills and forests on Wednesday to plant six million trees in a single day as part of a mass reforestation drive i...

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Cocaine Kills Colombian Forests

AP | MEERA SELVA | Posted 12.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Cocaine and Deforestation, Drugs, Deforestation, Cocaine, Colombia, Environment, Green News

LONDON — Does white powder damage your green credentials? Colombia's vice president said Tuesday that Britain's middle classes, who recycle and...

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Politicians Save

Reuters | Deborah Zabarenko | Posted 12.20.2008 | Green

Read More: Environmental Policy, Natural Resources, S Renewable Energy, Mining, Boreal Forest, Environment, Green News, Oil, Conservation, Logging, Climate Change, Deforestation, Global Warming, Canada, Green News

Politicians actually listened when experts told them to protect Canada's boreal forest, a potent weapon against global warming, and the plan for this ...

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What Conservatism Taught Us About Conservation

Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle | Posted 11.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, John McCain, Ecology, Election 08, Deforestation, Science, William Kristol, National Review, Biodiversity, Green News

Is presenting a unified front really a prerequisite for getting what you want in the political sphere?

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Cost of Forest Loss Exceeds Current Banking Crisis

Janet Ritz | Posted 11.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Green News, The Environmentalist, Deforestation, Climate Change, Convention of Biological Diversity, Bank Crisis, Biodiversity, Wall Street Crisis, Green News

The global economy is losing more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking crisis, according to an EU-commissioned study.

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UN Launches Plan To Save Tropical Forests

Treevolution | Posted 10.27.2008 | Green

Read More: Tropical Forests, Un, Deforestation, Climate Change, United Nations, Green News

The United Nations launched a programme this week to help nine developing countries - among them three African states, Zambia, Tanzania and the Democr...

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Life Cycle: Zen and the Art of Producing Chopsticks

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Aspen, Chinese Food, Green, Eco, Life Cycle, Green Living, Grass, Environmentally-Friendly, Willow, Environment, Sarah Smarsh, Take-Out, Bamboo, Chopsticks, Mooshu Pork, Deforestation, Simran Sethi, Green News

People have been impressing their dates with chopstick dexterity since the Shang Dynasty. But the throw-away version of chopsticks is a less romantic yet marvelous invention.

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Why Twinkies Destroy Rainforests and Cook the Planet

Michael Brune | Posted 09.21.2008 | Green

Read More: Fast Food, Sustainable Food, Environment, Food, Climate Change, Rainforests, Indigenous Rights, Palm Oil, Deforestation, Girl Scout Cookies, Green News

Can we have our cake and our forests too? Palm oil is nearly everywhere -- it's used to produce everything from Cheez-Its, Oreos and Mrs. Fields cookies to Pop Tarts, Cool Whip and Ivory Soap.

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A Setback In The War On The War On Trees

New York Times | Robbie Brown | Posted 09.06.2008 | Green

Read More: Tom Coffin, Atlanta Tree Laws, Arborist, Atlanta Arbor Laws, Atlanta Arborist Fired, Atlanta, Deforestation, Tyler Perry, Green News

ATLANTA -- So proud are Atlantans of their sprawling canopy of dogwoods, magnolias and pines -- and, of course, peach trees -- that builders must pay ...

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Life Cycle: Life After Desk

Simran Sethi | Posted 08.05.2008 | Green

Read More: Chairs, Landfills, Volatile Organic Compounds, Desk, Reduce, Glues, Environmental, Office Furniture, Green Office, Recycle, Wooden, Varnishes, Environment, Waste, Reuse, Sarah Smarsh, Deforestation, Simran Sethi, Vocs, Green News

Often, the greenest consumer route is not buying new products made with Earth-friendly methods but rather scoring used products made with traditional, possibly heinous methods. Reduce, reuse, then recycle.

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Where's My Orangutan? Why Biofuels Don't Kill Apes

Josh Tickell | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Orangutan, Biofuels, Alternative Energy, Future of Fuel, Sugarcane, Logging, Conservation, Malaysia, Future Fuel, Ethanol, Deforestation, Biodiesel, Soy, Green News

The next time you eat a cookie off of your Mahogany table that was brought to you on diesel-fueled transportation, consider this: everything you touch, everything you buy and everything you eat comes at a price.

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Life Cycle: Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em

Simran Sethi | Posted 07.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Pesticides, Smoking, Cigarettes, Filters, Environment, Green, Environmentalism, Tobacco Industry, Deforestation, Phillip Morris, Simran Sethi, Sarah Smarsh, Green News

Deforestation is the most direct environmental repercussion of the approximately ten gazillion cigarettes smoked in the world daily. Wood is used just about every step in production--to cure tobacco, to wrap the leaves with paper, to box them up with cardboard.

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New Google Earth Layer Shows Global Deforestation

Treehugger | Kimberly D. Mok | Posted 06.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Google Earth, Deforestation, Green News

We've already alerted readers to the awesome new features available on Google Earth's Outreach back in April. Now, check out this new Google Earth KML...

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Prince Charles Calls for Action Against Deforestation

AFP | Posted 06.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Prince Charles, Deforestation, World Environment Day, Green News

LONDON (AFP) - Prince Charles called for urgent action to combat deforestation as part of an effort to fight off the effects of climate change, in a c...

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Forest Disappearing In Papau New Guinea

New York Times | Andrew C. Revkin | Posted 06.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Timber Mining, Deforestation, Papua New Guinea, Green News

A new satellite analysis of logging in Papua New Guinea shows that the country has been losing about 1,400 square miles of rain forest, or about 1.4 p...

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