Forest Scale Articles & Analysis
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We brought the apocalyptic scenes of gigantic forest fires, melting ice caps, failed harvests, water scarcity and calamitous floods down upon ourselves. ...
I look forward to working with him to further the bipartisan work that the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee is doing to address this urgent crisis. By harnessing our farms and forests we can protect our climate and grow our economy.” Senator Stabenow has led the effort in the U.S. ...
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today applauded the work of the Food and Agriculture Climate Alliance formed by the American Farm Bureau Federation, Environmental Defense Fund, FMI – The Food Industry Association, National Alliance of Forest Owners, National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, ...
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Conservation, Forestry, and Natural Resources, introduced the bipartisan Rural Forests Markets Act to help small-scale, family foresters access new economic opportunities through climate solutions like carbon markets. ...
The bill will help break down barriers for farmers and foresters interested in participating in carbon markets so they can be rewarded for climate-smart practices. ...
That’s why Senator Braun and I introduced the bipartisan Growing Climate Solutions Act to help farmers and foresters scale up sustainable practices and make money through voluntary carbon markets. ...
With acceptance of the necessity of more ambitious climate mitigation and adaptation efforts and how carbon removal strategies play a role in battling the climate crisis, the event will showcase existing technologies and recent findings related to Climate Restoration methods, such as carbon negative building materials and large-scale reforestation. The Forum, hosted in ...
The U.S. Forest Service says it has increased the pace and scale of its forest restoration work since 2011, but progress waned this year and the agency risks following further behind without more resources. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is using a new report to press Congress to change the way in which the federal government funds wildfire ...
The House passed a bill Thursday designed to improve the health of national forests by scaling back the environmental reviews that go into some timbering projects and discouraging lawsuits that delay projects. The goal is to speed up timber harvests and underbrush removal that the U.S. Forest Service deems necessary to improve the health of ...
To understand and improve the resilience of forests, a combination of approaches from small-scale field experiments to large-scale computer simulations can help, according to the studies. ...
The forestry sector moves up the scale at Expobiomasa If the amount of exhibition floor space seems surprising for a specialised fair devoted exclusively to biomass, then this is mainly due to the 8,000 m2 of machinery and equipment for handling timber on display in ‘Expobiomasa Forestal’ included in the main fair. This was thanks to a specific call ...
Just a couple of months ago, I gave a keynote speech at the 2014 edition of the World Forests Summit, in Stockholm. The fact that it is an annual event is in itself an indication that forest policy is particularly complex, involving many different actors and interests working at many different levels and scales. ...
The Agriculture Act of 2014 (“Farm Bill”) provided states with an opportunity to request designation of landscape-scale insect & disease infestation areas on National Forest System lands managed by the USDA Forest Service under section 8204 of the Farm Bill. ...
Apart from the three large commercial gold mines in the area, most of the thousands of mining operations are small-scale and unregulated. Illegal mining in dense tropical forest is hard to detect by traditional satellite imaging because the operations move frequently and are small-scale. In contrast to traditional satellite mapping, this study ...
Avon contributes all proceeds to help restore the Atlantic Forest in Brazil, in partnership with TNC, and the tropical forests of Indonesia, with WWF. ...
Under the project managed by Form Ghana, a forest plantation management company, natural forests are being restored and tree plantations are being established in the Asubima Forest Reserve. ...
Lack of reliable data on forest resources could prevent Sri Lanka from immediately accessing UN funds pledged to help the island nation reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, a new study said. ...
In just three minutes, participants at today's Google Earth Outreach Canada launch will get a nonstop, coast-to-coast, interactive experience with the earth's "green halo," the boreal forest. The Pew Environment Group tour lets anyone with a computer hover over the vast northern forests and waterways to learn about an ecosystem that stores twice as much carbon ...
“The event is an important part of efforts to scale up and extend the benefits of the CDM to the African continent,” said UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres. ...
Tropical forests store large amounts of carbon in the wood and roots of their trees. When the trees are cut and decompose or are burned, the carbon is released to the atmosphere.Previous studies have estimated the carbon stored in forests on local and large scales within a single continent, but there existed no systematic way of looking at all ...