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Canadian Warming, Calving Ice Sheets, Shrinking Glaciers, Dolphins Not Getting It On as Climate Warming Continues

Posted on April 5, 2019 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

Sobering, unsettling, and at times startling climate change-related news emerged in Antarctica, Canada, Iceland, and Australia this past week.

Largely Ignored, High Forest Cover and Low Deforestation Nations and Supporters Meet in Paramaribo

Posted on February 21, 2019 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

Representatives from a small group of nations providing absolutely essential, increasingly scarce ecosystems services met in Paramaribo, Suriname Feb. 12-15. Swimming against the rising tide of tech-driven industrialization and globalization, deforestation, and a Sixth Great Extinction, the efforts of High Forest Cover and Low Deforestation (HFLD) countries go largely unacknowledged and little valued. Identifying and elaborating ways to increase international…

Myanmar Mangrove Restoration Project First to Receive Verified Carbon Standard Certification

Posted on November 27, 2018 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

Six million mangrove seedlings had been planted with an 86 percent success rate as of the VCS report. Worldview International Foundation aims to restore 100,000 hectares (247,000 acres) of destroyed mangrove forest in Myanmar over the next 15 years.

Forty Percent of World Population Threatened by Ongoing Land Degradation

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Andrew Burger | 1 Comments

More than 75 percent of the Earth’s land surface had suffered severely as a result of human land degradation as of 2014, IPBES highlights. Experts estimate that less than one-tenth of the Earth’s land surface will have escaped substantial impacts of human activity come 2050.

Earth Overshoot: Living Large in the 21st Century

Posted on August 2, 2017 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

Buying on credit Today is Earth Overshoot Day. As of today, the year is done for planet Earth, she has given a year’s worth of natural resources. It may seem counter-intuitive at first. Obviously, we aren’t done with 2017 yet. How can we take more than the Earth makes, for decades on end? Have you ever run out of money…

Information is Power: Böll Foundation Releases Inaugural World Ocean Atlas

Posted on June 14, 2017 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

Highlighting the threats and costs climate change and human activites are having on the world ocean, the Heinrich Böll Foundation released its inaugural “Ocean Atlas 2017.”

Kenyans Turn to Foraging as Californians Bail Out from Torrential Rains

Posted on February 21, 2017 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

Kenyans are foraging for plants and instects that contain toxic chemicals and cooking them in unsafe water as Californians are struggling to cope with record breaking rains.