Burning Trees While Saving Forests? The Mythology of Bioenergy In 2014, Scientists and environmentalists condemned work by University of British Columbia, who have genetically engineered (GE) poplar trees for paper and biofuel production, opening the prospect of...
WATCH: Risks, Concerns, and Potential Problems Regarding the Use of Biotechnology to Address Forest Health On March 27, GJEP's Anne Petermann and Ruddy Turnstone, as well as Rachel Smolker of Biofuelwatch, presented to the National Academy of Sciences in a webinar...
Plantations Are Not Forests! Deceit and Destruction Behind FAO’s Forest Definition For decades, the WRM has demanded that the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) urgently reviews its forest definition, which mainly benefits the interests of...
From our partners at Biofuelwatch.org.uk. See more on how genetically engineered trees relate to biofuels here. What are the problems with big biomass? In nutshell – there are three problems: 1) It takes huge areas of land and huge quantities of wood to supply...
Women denounce loss of water, impacts from toxic agrochemical spraying and monoculture timber plantations, and future use of GE trees By MST Communication Group in Bahia Via MST.org.br Photos: MST Communication Note: In 2015, the Brazilian Biosafety Commission gave...
Pelham, MA. Burning wood in power plants will significantly undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse emissions over the next 10 – 50 years even under industry best-case scenarios where only forestry wastes are burned as fuel, according to a study published in...
Carbon emissions from the Brazilian Amazon are increasingly dominated by forest fires during extreme droughts rather than by emissions from fires directly associated with the deforestation process, according to a study in Nature Communications. The authors suggest...
By Souparna Lahiri Via Global Forest Coalition, India An estimated 147 million villagers in India live in or around forests, and another 275 million villagers depend heavily on forests as a source of livelihood. Livelihood security for forest dependent...
New Report Quantifies the Values that Wetland Forests Provide the Communities of the Southern US By Scot Quaranda Via Dogwood Alliance Asheville, North Carolina – On World Wetlands Day, a new report from Dogwood Alliance, “Treasures of the South: The True...
The Chicago Tribune recently published an article on BECCS technology A technology many hoped would fight climate change would cause even bigger environmental problems, scientists say. Tree engineers are manufacturing GE trees specifically to be used in BECCS and...