What are the interactions between forests and climate? In the collective mind, we readily associate the importance of forests on the climate with the ability to absorb CO2, one of the main greenhouse gases responsible for global warming. Forests would therefore help to mitigate the effect of this warming. If this effect is very real, the interactions […]
The natural melodies from the chirping of birds, the croaking of frogs, and the swaying of native trees casts into a realistic movie. The phenomenon derived from mother nature has been pushed further from our homes due to urbanization and hard surfacing. Replicating a wildlife habitat in your garden might not be hard as it […]
The moment you turn on the ignition of your car, the entire functioning and running of your vehicle depends on the battery that is placed in your engine’s compartment. When it comes summers, the car batteries don’t have to function hard, but when the temperature dips and winter sets in, it’s this time of the […]
We are living in an age that bears a burden of climate change issues. A time when a tree means a lot to the current and more importantly the future generation. The 19th and 20th centuries saw a lot of trees cut down by us, humans. The need to build an economy and better life […]
“The trees are tongue-less” Almost everyone has heard that we are losing our forest tracts rapidly every coming year. The reasons are many and some of them are controllable. These trees, which provide us oxygen, are extremely important for our biodiversity. Earth has to have life on it. So why don’t we care about saving […]
Hey! Do you know that the cryosphere is melting and slowly feeding the sea? The glaciers and sea ice are melting at a very high speed. Remember, the glaciers make up to 10% of land area on earth which shall then transfer to the water. Do you know what this means for us, our economy, […]
“We are living on this planet as if we had another one to go to” These simple yet powerful words quoted by Terri Swearingen have a deep meaning hidden considering the sad state our mother Earth is in currently. Gone were the days when the mere sight of blue skies used to fill us with […]
Climate change has been a commonly used term in the 20th and 21st centuries. However, most of the world’s human population misunderstand its meaning and often confuse it with global warming! So, what is it? Is it real or just a hyped-up global political PR? And if it is, then what are the dangers its […]
World Resources Institute (WRI) today announced the release of a tool that promises to revolutionize forest monitoring. The platform, called Global Forest Watch and developed over several years with more than 40 partners, draws from a rich array of “big data” related to the word’s forests and translates it into interactive maps and charts that reveal trends […]
The Indonesian government has rejected nearly 932,000 hectares (2.3 million acres) of oil palm, timber, and logging concessions due to its moratorium on new permits across millions of hectares of peatlands and rainforests, reports Mongabay-Indonesia. According to data released by Indonesia’s new REDD+ Task Force and the Ministry of Forestry, permits for an additional 409,000 […]