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Full genome map of oil palm indicates a way to raise yields and protect rainforest; single gene controls oil palm yield
2013-07-25 11:30:14| Green Car Congress
California's next innovation: performance-based rainforest conservation
2013-07-22 21:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Often misunderstood, REDD+ forest carbon offsets are a must have for any realistic climate-change mitigation strategy. Californians are known as innovation leaders, and once again, we are on the verge of demonstrating critical leadership. Only this time it isnt about the Internet, social networking, reality television, venture capital or electric cars. It is about stopping tropical deforestation and supporting local communities. What!? you say? How is the great state of California, home of...
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Logging slows in Africa's rainforest
2013-07-22 02:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Tree loss in one of the world's largest rainforests has slowed, a study suggests. Satellite images of Africa's Congo Basin reveal that deforestation has fallen by about a third since 2000. Researchers believe this is partly because of a focus on mining and oil rather than commercial agriculture, where swathes of forest are cleared. The work is published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. It is part of a series that is examining the state of Africa's forests. Dr...
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Has the EU fallen for Congo rainforest logging scam?
2013-07-22 02:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: BBC Television's Panorama programme has spent six months tracking illegal logs from the Congo rainforest to western Europe. The investigation has revealed that new EU timber regulations are failing to stop illegal wood getting into European stores. I have been on a stakeout for two days, but finally the moment I have been waiting for is about to arrive. I have been monitoring a ship carrying wood to Europe from Congo-Brazzaville. It is the dead of the night and I am at the port of La Rochelle...
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HSBC orders review of its lending to rainforest logging companies
2013-05-25 00:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Following allegations that it has been financing land-grabbing of indigenous territories and destruction of rainforests in Malaysian Borneo, HSBC said it will conduct an audit of its relationships with logging companies to see whether its lending has violated the bank's environmental policy. In a statement issued Thursday, HSBC said it will engage environmental auditor Proforest to evaluate its forest policy and commission PricewaterhouseCoopers to conduct a compliance review of the bank's implementation...
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