Author: rpalma
Source – Global Post BANGKOK, Thailand — Is your coffee table stamped “Made in. Vietnam”? If so, there’s a decent chance it was once a tree in the dwindling jungles of Laos, sawn down illegally by a timber syndicate and smuggled into Vietnam for processing. Those are the findings of the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency […]
Courtesy of: Montana Wood Products Association Forests Should Be For Everyone The national forests belong to all of our nation’s citizens and are managed by the United States Forest Service. The harvesting of trees to meet citizens’ daily needs is only one of the many uses of our forests. The forests also provide gas, oil, […]
Source – The CS Monitor Worldwide, forests absorb almost 9 billion tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide every year, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal Science. Tropical rainforests absorb huge amounts of carbon dioxide, but because slash-and-burn deforestation releases so much of the greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, the tropics […]
Source – Fox News The Mountain Pine Beetle is tiny, about five millimeters long or about the size of a pencil eraser. But what it lacks in size, it makes up in number. So much so, that it has decimated 40 million acres of forest across the Western United States over the last 10 years. To put that […]
Source – Horticulture Week Two new moves announced today are expected to attract new investment into UK tree planting projects designed to help combat climate change. Planting new forests and woodland helps to counteract the greenhouse gas emissions caused by burning fossil fuels such as oil, coal and gas. As trees grow they capture carbon […]