Young Plantation Forests Linked to High Wildfire Severity Risk Via Oregon State University Phys.org Wildfires show no respect for property lines, but a new analysis of the 2013 Douglas Complex fire in southwestern Oregon concludes that young plantation forests...
China has implemented some of the world's most ambitious policies to protect and restore forests, yet these programs still miss the mark, according to a team of researchers led by Princeton University. Using satellite imagery and household interviews, the team looked...
How can you make a good decision without having all of the information? Biotech companies are working to release genetically engineered (GE) trees without conducting long term studies on how GE trees will impact forests and the communities around them. Watch and share...
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...
Communities Rally Against GMOs, GE Trees in New Zealand GE Free Northland is encouraging the Northland Regional Council to place precautionary and prohibitive GE/GMO provisions in the new Regional Plan for Northland, to support local District Councils and Auckland...
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...
For Immediate Release 5 March 2018 More than One Thousand Women Take Over Suzano Pulp & Paper Mill to Protest Genetically Engineered Trees and Eucalyptus Plantations More than one thousand women from the Rural Landless Workers Movement (MST) took over a pulp mill...
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...