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UN Clean Seas Campaign Aims to Eliminate Ocean Plastic

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

Dell Computers and a cast of celebrities have joined UNEP’s “Clean Seas Campaign” in a bid to eliminate ocean plastic.

Mangroves for the Future, FAO Launch Regional Sustainable Financing Project

Posted on December 21, 2016 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

With field projects under way in South and Southeast Asia, the MFF-FAO program aims to develop a low-cost mechanism for mangrove conservation and sustainable development to supplement the sale of carbon credits.

Nations Accelerate Plans to Realize UN Biodiversity Conservation Goals

Posted on December 6, 2016 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

Mexico established four new biological reserves and five other protected areas as representatives from more than 190 UN member nations adopted the Cancun Declaration, stepping up their efforts to conserve biological diversity. Will it be enough to curtail a Sixth Great Extinction?

Mexico’s First Wood Fiberboard Plant Highlights Controversy Over UN FAO Definition of Forests

Posted on September 27, 2016 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

Drawing on local eucalyptus plantation it owns, Proteak Uno’s new medium density fiber board plant highlights the ongoing controversy revolving around industrial forestry and its contributions to achieving key national and international environmental, climate change and sustainable development goals.

Thawing Russian Arctic Permafrost Leads to Anthrax Outbreak

Posted on August 3, 2016 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

Seventy-two nomadic herders, including 41 children, living in the Russian Arctic Circle town of Salekhard have been hospitalized since reindeer began dying en masse due to an anthrax outbreak that scientists linked to rising temperatures, which is causing permafrost to thaw.

The Golden Toad is just the first of many species going extinct due to climate change

EarthTalk: Climate Change and Extinction

Posted on July 1, 2016 by Earth Talk | 0 Comments

EarthTalk® is a weekly environmental column made available to our readers from the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine. (Additional references are added) Dear EarthTalk: Have any wildlife species gone extinct already as a result of global warming, and which are most at risk moving forward? – Melissa Zwicker, Bern, NC Global warming is definitely already taking its toll on wildlife…

Tampa Bay Blue Carbon Study Highlights Threats to Coastal Ecosystems

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

Coastal ecosystems – marshes, bogs, swamps, seagrass beds and mangroves among them – provide a wide range of beneficial services that have all too often been unknown to or ignored, including serving as carbon sinks. A ¨blue carbon¨ study by non-profit Restore America’s Estuaries puts numbers on the amount of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) seagrasses, marshes and mangroves in the…

UN Clean Seas Campaign Aims to Eliminate Ocean Plastic

Mangroves for the Future, FAO Launch Regional Sustainable Financing Project

Nations Accelerate Plans to Realize UN Biodiversity Conservation Goals

Mexico’s First Wood Fiberboard Plant Highlights Controversy Over UN FAO Definition of Forests

Thawing Russian Arctic Permafrost Leads to Anthrax Outbreak

EarthTalk: Climate Change and Extinction

Tampa Bay Blue Carbon Study Highlights Threats to Coastal Ecosystems

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