Tag Archives : deforestation

Robots or manmade machines’ taking care of our chores wasn’t unheard of. But summoning a robot to undo the damage done by mankind is really offbeat. So here we have a Tree Planting Robot with a mission to avoid an environmental apocalypse. Designed for reforestation projects, the robot is capable of carrying as much as 320 seedlings, each stored [...]

It is the industrialized countries that have done the most damage to the Amazon rainforests. ‘Brazil’s president says “gringos” should pay Amazon nations to prevent deforestation, insisting rich Western nations have caused much more past environmental destruction than the loggers and farmers who cut and burn trees in the world’s [...]

In 1997, the three energy multinationals American Electric Power (AEP), BP-Amoco (BP), and Paci?corp signed an agreement with the government of Bolivia. The deal involved for these companies to be allocated the carbon offsets generated by keeping trees standing, ‘in return for millions of dollars of investment for the protection of an area of rainforest [...]

Greenpeace has blocked one of the world’s largest pulp mills, owned by Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), in the heart of Indonesia’s rainforests, an attempt on the eve of the critical UN Copenhagen Climate Summit. Greenpeace activists ‘occupied one of the cranes for 27 hours in extreme conditions. All activists have now been detained by [...]

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 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 the planet from a temperature [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]