Why I am Afraid of Global Cooling
Charles Eisenstein – Regardless of whether the planet warms or cools, the things we need to do to maintain ecological health are the same.
TAG: deforestation
Ecuador Holds World Reforestation Record for Planting 647,250 Trees in a Single Day
Anna Hunt – Global reforestation efforts are desperately needed.
Uncontacted Tribes Facing Extinction in Massive Amazonian Forest Fires
Alex Pietrowski – Fires started by illegal loggers are threatening to wipe out uncontacted tribes.
Couple Proves Nature Can be Healed by Transforming Barren Land into Sanctuary
Anna Hunt – Driven by their passion for nature, this couple has done the impossible.
Peru Creates ‘Yellowstone of the Amazon’ for Uncontacted Tribes & Endangered Wildlife
Rhett A. Butler – Peru sets up 3.3M acre reserve home to un-contacted tribes, endangered wildlife.
The Eco-Apocalypse in Indonesia That No One is Talking About
Alex Pietrowski – This may be one of the biggest ecological catastrophes of the 21st century.
How Many Trees are Cut Down Every Year?
Rhett Butler – Just how many trees get cut each year around the world?
Mining the Heart of the Mother of God: Peru’s Gold Rush Claims More Forest
Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa – In the Peruvian Amazon, a global craving for gold has changed life for local communities.
The Impact Trees Have on Humanity and Our World
Video – It’s time to stop looking at trees as a commodity and consider them an endangered species.
The 6 Biggest Threats to the Amazon Rainforest
Michael Whitehouse – The Amazon rainforest is facing utter destruction.
Up in Smoke: Tobacco Industry Reaps Havoc on Zimbabwe Forests
Ray Mwareya – In Zimbabwe, a booming tobacco-growing sector threatens the country’s forests.
Shocking Aerial Footage of the Amazon Forest in Peru
Video – This aerial footage of the Amazon forest throughout the region of Marde de Dios, Peru, will likely leave you speechless. It shows the expansiveness and the devastation caused by deforestation and mining of the region.
Brazil Arrests ‘Amazon’s Biggest Destroyer’
Rhett A. Butler – Authorities in Brazil have arrested a man they claim to be the single biggest deforester in the Amazon…
6 Striking Aerial Images Show How Deforestation Has Altered the Earth
Stefanie Spear – There’s no debating that humans have greatly scarred the Earth. And, there’s no better way to see the extent of that damage than via aerial images…
The Link Between Mushrooms, Bees, and Mass Extinction
Alex Pietrowski – Deforestation is the biggest threat facing humanity, and a respected mushroom researcher has discovered how deforestation damages bees…
The Plant Most Fundamental to Life on Earth
Anna Hunt – Reforesting trees is vital to the survival of life on planet Earth.
How Palm Oil Ravages Rainforests, Endangers Wildlife and Destroys Communities
Travis McKnight, EcoWatch Waking Times Agriculture plays a massive role in today’s global economy. It’s easy to not realize that your salad’s fresh tomatoes are likely flown in from the Netherlands, its asparagus is picked by a Peruvian farmer and the dressing has palm oil harvested in Indonesia. Our complicity in an agricultural system that ships food …
Cocaine: The New Face of Deforestation in Central America
Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa, Mongabay Waking Times In 2006, Mexico intensified its security strategy, forming an inhospitable environment for drug trafficking organizations (also known as DTOs) within the nation. The drug cartels responded by creating new trade routes along the border of Guatemala and Honduras. Soon shipments of cocaine from South America began to flow through …
Helping the Amazon’s ‘Jaguar People’ Protect Their Culture And Traditional Wisdom
Rhett A. Butler, Mongabay Waking Times Tribes in the Amazon are increasingly exposed to the outside world by choice or circumstance. The fallout of outside contact has rarely been anything less than catastrophic, resulting in untold extinction of hundreds of tribes over the centuries. For ones that survived the devastation of introduced disease and conquest, …
The Quicksilver Demon: Rogue Gold-Mining is the World’s Largest Source of Mercury Pollution
Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa, Mongabay Waking Times In 1956, in the quiet seaside town of Minamata on the southwestern coast of Japan’s Kyushu Island, cats began to behave very strangely. They convulsed, displayed excessive salivation, and gradually lost the ability to walk. Then, dead birds began to fall out of the sky. Shellfish opened and decomposed. …