The Kyoto Protocol is an obvious failure in its mandate to enjoin countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, and quite ironically, ‘global carbon-dioxide emissions have grown by 25% since the protocol was adopted in 1997.’
There are glaring reasons why the soon-to-expire Kyoto Protocol did not succeed. This treaty left out of the [...]

The Kyoto Protocol which did not achieve general success is about to expire. To replace it is the new climate treaty that will be forged in Copenhagen this December. More than thought of as a historic global agreement, the Copenhagen treaty is ‘the culmination of a 20-year process,’ and is ‘the last chance to save [...]

More than 70 percent of Indonesia’s original forest cover has been lost. Logging, which is mostly illegal, is estimated to destroy over 2.4 million hectares per year.
Re-elected Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) gets international praise for leading the fight against deforestation in his country. All Indonesian presidents in the past have pledged to preserve [...]

Many find the global discussion of deforestation a tired one, most especially with those who cannot directly relate to this particular environmental malaise. Much less is their capacity to correlate deforestation with worldwide carbon emissions. Fact is ‘deforestation accounts for 20%-25% of worldwide carbon emissions, whereas the global transportation sector currently accounts for the same [...]

New growth is saving the Amazon rainforest through renewed vegetation that addresses the problem of deforestation. These ‘secondary forests’ have been undervalued, even overlooked or ignored, by scientists, especially those who want to stick to the buzzwords of irreversible deforestation and unabated forest denudation. A UN study says ‘the ecological importance of these new forests [...]

The Amazon rainforest is surely and quickly being destroyed by the clearing of tropical rainforest land for the use of cattle raising and grazing. This destructive industry is ‘responsible for 80 percent of rainforest loss in the Brazilian Amazon.’
Amazon ranching is also now a multi-billion dollar business, with 80 million head of cattle or ‘nearly [...]

Madagascar owns one of the world’s richest biodiversity hotspots. In some of the country’s protected areas, organized groups engaged in illegal logging have been felling ‘valuable rosewood trees and extracting other resources’ mostly from the Marojejy National Park and Masoala National Park.
To prove that illegal logging, a major cause of deforestation of the world’s rainforests, [...]

 
The Western demand for beef and leather is dictating the current trend in overranching in the Amazon forests of Brazil, thus causing persistent deforestation. So says a three-year survey conducted by Greenpeace. Cattle seems to produce a lot of lucrative products and by-products: meat for fresh and canned food, leather hide for fashion, fat for [...]

World Wildlife fund (WWF) campaigns are always interesting.There was paper Panda campaign where cute paper Pandas were put in parts of cities to create awareness about the dwindling number of the species.  The message was loud and clear.
This time again the message is explicitly put.  The ad shows depleting forest cover. The forest cover itself [...]

Another raging problem is far more alarming than the credit crunch today. This economic meltdown has some immediate solutions that are concretely possible. The bail out is an example of an immediate and concrete solution. What surpasses this economic problem is the raging environmental problem that is currently devastating the world today. This has far [...]