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Polar Bears, Forests & Coral: Big Environmental Gains of 2009

2009 has been a big year for the environment: most notably, with the election of President Barack Obama and his administration’s swift subsequent undoing of many of former President Bush’s less-than-green initiatives. But that’s not all that went right for the planet this past year.

National Geographic has an outstanding roundup of 10 important environmental gains [...]

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Biofuels Could Make Global Warming Worse

What could be more environmentally harmful than fossil fuels? Try biofuels. That’s right, a new study claims that we’ll make global warming even worse if we rely too much on the new generation of biofuels, because rules governing their production encourage deforestation. And, as another recent report illuminated, our forests are our most important line [...]

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Saving Forests Five Times More Effective than Carbon Capture

The best way to fight against global warming isn’t expensive, potentially ecologically disruptive carbon capture methods. It’s saving the forests that we already have, which act as massive carbon sinks, protecting the planet against catastrophic climate change.
According to a new report released by WWF Sweden, world leaders have got to join together in an international [...]

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Amazon Deforestation Plummets 46%

Brazil pledged to slow down deforestation in the Amazon, and many environmentalists were highly skeptical – but new figures show that the logging rate did actually decrease dramatically between August 2008 and July 2009. Deforestation Detection in Real Time (DETER) and the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) say that deforestation rates dropped by a [...]

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Brazilian Cattle Ranchers Ask to Destroy Forest Lands of Uncontacted Tribe

In yet another battle between ranchers and indigenous peoples of South America, a cattle ranching company is set to destroy the forest where one of the last ‘uncontacted’ tribes in the world live. Survival International reports that the company, Yaguarete Pora S.A., requested permission from the Paraguayan government to tear down the forest on the [...]

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InterIntel Working to Bring Environmental Solutions to Haiti

Daniel Schnitzer, Co-Founder and Director of Project Management at InterIntel.org explains why he started an organization to democratize sustainability in Haiti.

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