Forests – evorazon

31st March 2022

Botanist Adriana Hoffmann, who fought for Chile’s forests, dies at 82

[ad_1] Adriana Hoffmann, a botanist who traveled through Chile deciphering vegetation and tirelessly working as a scientist, activist, writer and policy maker to protect her country’s vast forests from corporate exploitation, died at her home in the capital, Santiago, on March 20. She was 82 years old. His daughter, Leonora Calderón Hoffmann, said she had …

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16th February 2022

House Hunting in Canada: Seclusion in the Forests of British Columbia

[ad_1] Mr Clevering said Heriot Bay, about a 20-minute drive away, is the closest village for necessities. On the east coast of Vancouver Island (not to be confused with the city of Vancouver), Campbell River, with a population of approximately 35,000, has more extensive shopping and dining opportunities. The ferry departs regularly from Quathiaski Bay, …

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2nd December 2021

Hundreds of Companies Have Pledged to Help Protect Forests. Did they?

[ad_1] Hindsight A series by the Headway team that looks at predictions and promises from the past. In New York, for example, when a customer snatches a Milky Way bar from a grocery store shelf, that customer becomes the last link in a long chain that may have started on a patch of land in …

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2nd November 2021

Fossil Fuel Spending Far Outpaces COP26’s Forests Funding

[ad_1] Forests once covered the United States and Europe. People cut them down and turned the land into farms, towns and cities. In many parts of the world, such as South America, the Congo Basin, Southeast Asia, people did much less than that. Now, as the world faces the barrel of climate disaster and the …

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31st October 2021

Can Drones Sow Seeds Create New Forests?

[ad_1] This article is part of a special report Climate Solutionslooks at worldwide efforts to make a difference. CARCASTILLO, Spain — As bushfires devastated Cerro de Monserrate in Colombia in 2015, Juan Carlos Sesma, Spanish retail consultant working in Bogota, began considering reforestation of the planet. With experience developing systems for restaurant chains, supermarkets and …

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4th October 2021

California Sea Urchin Destroys Coastal Kelp Forests

[ad_1] ALBION, California — Ten years ago, when Gary Trumper dived for sea urchins, the docks here were filled with commercial fishing boats. Mr Trumper and his dive partner Byron Koehler were to pass through the tangled piles of seaweed and return after several hours of work with enough red urchins to sink Mr. Koehler’s …

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23rd August 2021

Forests Used as Carbon Offsets Rise in Wildfire Flames

[ad_1] Wildfires in the Americas are burning large, specially protected forests that are part of carbon offset projects aimed at offsetting the pollution of carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere by human activities. Carbon offset programs designed to combat climate change often pay landowners to manage their land to store carbon. Often this means paying …

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