PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2025

He noted that a big emphasis for him is working to decrease the rapid pace of deforestation for warehouses and solar farms. Neely said he is looking forward to more projects that focus on the preservation of Pennsylvania lands and waters.

Conservation

Legal Planet

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Mining critical minerals can lead to human rights violations, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, and soil degradation. By advancing a circular economy, it strengthens supply chain security, supports energy resilience, and enhances the EUs strategic autonomy. The current battery supply chain faces several pressing challenges.

Regulations

Legal Planet

JULY 31, 2025

This is primarily due to deforestation and other land-use changes caused by converting wild areas into farmland to grow crops for livestock. Animal agriculture itself is responsible for 37% of anthropogenic methane, primarily from “enteric fermentation by ruminants,” or more colloquially, animal burps.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The world is losing billions of topsoil annually due to overgrazing, deforestation , pollution as well as many other issues. If serious and urgent action is not taken, it will speed up desertification and the worlds agricultural land’s ability to produce the level of food it is today. This is then exacerbated by climate change.

Deforestation

Environmental News Bits

MAY 29, 2025

Only 21 countries had even submitted their updated plans for managing climate change by the … Continue reading Governors are leading the fight against climate change and deforestation around the world, filling a void left by presidents

Deforestation

Real Climate

JULY 31, 2025

0 % ~ 96% (impact of T on saturation vapor pressure) Adverse effects of increase Increased heat waves, sea level rise, etc.

Atmosphere

New Scientist

JULY 4, 2025

70251 Topics: ecology / deforestation / carbon emissions Advertisement Sign up to our weekly newsletter Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox! “If you want to guarantee permanence over 100 years, you need to ensure your buffer is big enough to deal with a lot of climate change,” says Anderegg.

Fossil Fuels

Scientific American

JULY 4, 2025

The first 40 years of the thought experiment (from 1860 until 1899) were a time when large-scale fossil fuel burning and deforestation were just beginning to ratchet up during the industrial revolution. Although the question is simple, the answer isn’t obvious.

Atmosphere

Law Columbia

JULY 15, 2025

States must adopt “binding measures” to achieve the mitigation target, apply the maximum available resources, avoid reliance on unproven technologies, and target the main sources of emissions (fossil fuels, agriculture and deforestation).

Climate Change

Nanotech

JUNE 17, 2025

B&C and Acta are pleased to present a webinar covering EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) issues. The post EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), August 5, 2025, 10:00 a.m. – More details will be posted closer to the webinar. EDT), via webinar appeared first on Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Deforestation

Vermont Law

APRIL 9, 2025

Among the most cited environmental effects of war include deforestation, soil erosion, and biodiversity loss. previous use of nuclear devices in the Marshall Islands and atomic bombs during World War II also resulted in major environmental and human damages. In addition, military emissions contribute to nearly 5.5%

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

MARCH 18, 2025

Inspired by the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals , students used hip-hop, jazz, and spoken word to tackle pressing environmental issues such as climate change, deforestation, and social sustainability.

Deforestation

HumanNature

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Another concern regarding the environmental impact of cattle is the contribution to deforestation and habitat destruction primarily in tropical regions, like the Amazon rainforest, where land has historically been converted from forested land to pastures for grazing (Margulis, 2004; Gibbs et al., Margulis, S. ” World Bank. McGowan, J.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

JANUARY 19, 2025

An end to deforestation would protect ecosystems from drought and wildfire, as dense vegetation can absorb and retain moisture. In the Amazon and Pantanal Wetland, climate impacts were a forceful factor in 2024, with severe droughts and wildfires, which resulted in substantial biodiversity losses.

2024

Legal Planet

MAY 20, 2025

Their leaders have been finding ways to use that authority to reduce deforestation , increase the use of renewable energy and cap and cut greenhouse gas emissions that are pushing the planet toward dangerous tipping points. They have teamed up to link carbon markets and share knowledge in many areas. population and nearly 60% of its economy.

Rainforest

Scientific American

JUNE 17, 2025

The process of extracting the cellulose from wood pulp and converting it into usable fiber filaments relies on harsh chemicals, and the manufacture of these fabrics contributes to deforestation. “People are still interested in fashion trends. It’s hard not to get swept up in those. We just don’t have to do it so mindlessly.”

Upcycling

Environmental News Bits

APRIL 4, 2025

Examples are forest cover and deforestation, weather and extreme events, air pollution, and freshwater availability, among many others. Read the full story from the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability. Satellites have transformed our understanding of the Earths natural systems and how human activity impacts them.

2024

New Scientist

JULY 29, 2025

Read more Deforestation is partly to blame for Amazon's worst-ever drought Advertisement Animals contain just a tiny fraction of the carbon stored in the environments where they live. We’re losing the regrowth potential of tropical forests.”

Deforestation

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

It crosses jurisdictional boundaries, is rapidly worsening and has the potential to cause unprecedented loss and damage. –Winkelmann CJ, Glazebrook and Ellen France JJ Imagine, a large paper company, aware that its logging practices contribute to deforestation and increased carbon emissions, argues that it should not be held liable for these (..)

Fossil Fuels

Physics World

JUNE 3, 2025

Reforestation – Conversion to forest of land that was previously deforested. The report defines each technique as follows: Afforestation – Conversion to forest of land that was previously not forest. Agroforestry – Growing trees on agricultural land while maintaining agricultural production.

Waste

ESA

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Looking at a map of deforestation around the world, one notes that forests around field stations are either preserved or are being improved much more than around any other place. This creates a positive feedback loop: as the area becomes more studied, it becomes more valuable to science.

Conservation

Law Columbia

MARCH 19, 2025

In addition, if profits can be maximized by deforestation or releasing methane or other greenhouse gases as well, then profits must again take precedence. This means that the leaders of U.S. More on the Maximization Model of fiduciary duty in a moment. states allow for a more moderate and permissive interpretation of fiduciary duties.

Law

Acoel

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

And inevitably, these plants lead to more logging.Industrial wood pellet plants in other areas have led to increased logging and deforestation they cannot produce the amounts of pellets they need for export using wood waste and sawdust alone. Cutting down forests for wood pellets destroys important fish and wildlife habitat.

Air Pollution

Vermont Law

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

The flagrant lack of regulation promotes widespread deforestation, leaves infrastructure vulnerable to frequent natural disasters, and results in unorganized waste disposal.[1] 1] Illegal hazardous waste imports have been on the back burner as Haitian officials prioritize responses to natural disasters and other climate-related harms.[2]

Waste

Inside Climate News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

By Bob Berwyn The 10 deadliest weather disasters since 2004, including three tropical cyclones, four heatwaves, two floods and a drought, killed at least 570,000 people, and a new study shows how all of them were intensified by global warming, “caused by the burning of oil, gas and coal and deforestation.”

2004

Nanotech

JULY 15, 2025

(B&C®) and The Acta Group (Acta®); EPPA; and Preferred by Nature (PBN) are pleased to present “Regulation Without Borders: The EUDR and the New Era of Global Due Diligence,” a complimentary webinar providing a detailed exploration of the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and how it The post Recent Federal Developments for July 2025 (..)

2025

A Greener Life

MARCH 6, 2025

The Emerald Forest Set on Indonesias tropical island Sumatra, where deforestation has challenged the animals dependent on the tropical rainforest , the Emerald Forest is a picture book by author Catherine Ward and Illustrator Karen Littlewood.

Rainforest

Environmental News Bits

MARCH 25, 2025

With an announcement March 4, the conservation nonprofit and leather goods giant have invited other businesses to participate in the $10 million Deforestation Free Leather Fund. The World Wildlife Fund and Tapestry are asking for help in financing efforts to protect South American forests from cattle ranching.

Deforestation

A Greener Life

JUNE 6, 2025

Analysis: Coal extraction in Indonesia is driving deforestation Priority coal decommissioning projects under Indonesia’s JETP programme include the 660-megawatt Cirebon-1 plant and Pelabuhan Ratu. There is also uncertainty around the remaining 97.4%

Paris Agreement

Legal Planet

APRIL 23, 2025

Amazon & COP30 Some good news and bad news about deforestation in Latin America: Tree cover is declining generally, but theres new data from University of Maryland about where its returning.

Earth Day

Yale E360

MAY 27, 2025

If President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” becomes law, the industry would be given tax credits for producing crop-based fuel for planes, too, despite evidence it would spur deforestation and increase emissions. Read more on E360 →

Carbon Emissions

Yale E360

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Deforestation in the Colombian Amazon is down 70 percent, year on year, through the first nine months of 2023, the government estimates. Read more on E360 →

Deforestation

Yale E360

JULY 11, 2022

In the first half of this year, deforestation claimed roughly 1,500 square miles of the Amazon rainforest, an area five times the size of New York City and the greatest loss since at least 2016, according to the Brazilian Space Agency. Read more on E360 ?.

Deforestation

Yale E360

JANUARY 7, 2022

Last year, deforestation in Brazil's Cerrado region, one of the largest savannas in the world, reached its highest level since 2015, according to newly released data from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE).

Deforestation

Yale E360

JULY 14, 2021

Members of nearly 40 Indigenous communities in Peru's northern border region of Loreto have been using smartphone mapping apps to track deforestation in the Amazon, the Thomson Reuters Foundation reported.

Deforestation

Yale E360

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Tuesday's highlight at the Glasgow climate summit was the Declaration on Forest and Land Use, under which more than 100 leaders — from Russia to Brazil to Canada to Indonesia — pledged to end deforestation and land degradation by 2030. It brought a sense of déjà vu. Read more on E360 ?.

Deforestation

Yale E360

MAY 12, 2023

So far this year, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is down 40 percent from the same period in 2022, according to government data. The drop comes as a win for President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has promised to curb forest less. Read more on E360 →

Deforestation