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Five technologies help thwart illegal logging by tracing woods origin
2016-05-29 18:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The illegal timber trade creates problems for everyone. Governments lose valuable revenue and natural resources. Indonesias Corruption Eradication Commission reported that the country lost $9 billion in revenue to the illegal timber trade between 2003 and 2014. Meanwhile, businesses sourcing legal timber lose profits and competitiveness to illegal timber supplies sold at lower prices. So governments and businesses are starting to do more to improve timber traceability, including adopting new and...
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A walk in the dead woods
2016-05-27 15:07:53| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: They appear at random, cinnamon-and-silver-colored pines and firs, the standing dead amid otherwise healthy groves of cloud-snagging trees in the mountains of Southern California. Last week, the Forest Service said there were 40 million of them that is, 40 million dead trees in this state, almost one for every resident. Soon, they will be fuel, for what rangers fear will be a catastrophic wildfire season 40 million opportunities for fire, as Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack put it. Or they...
Spring happens all at once, and the woods feel giddy
2016-05-25 06:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: May-time, fair season blackbirds sing a full song, if there be a scanty beam of day, sang an unknown Irish poet in what we now call the dark ages. Today, the light through the trees is as green and sour as a gooseberry. A high canopy of ash, latest to leaf and still sparse, lets sunshine and showers through to lower levels a-swamp with leaf; each one a crucible in the alchemy turning light into life. Dark, gnarled trunks of old hawthorns have suddenly become lithe and sinuous, like shadow...
Alpine Woods Capital Investors LLC Acquires 9,500 Shares of PPG Industries, Inc.
2016-04-18 21:50:46| Chemicals - Topix.net
Alpine Woods Capital Investors LLC boosted its position in PPG Industries, Inc. by 103.3% during the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The firm owned 18,700 shares of the company's stock after buying an additional 9,500 shares during the period.
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Alpine Woods Capital Investors LLC Has $13,605,000 Position in Kansas City Southern
2016-04-13 00:12:57| Railroads - Topix.net
Alpine Woods Capital Investors LLC boosted its position in Kansas City Southern by 2.4% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission . The fund owned 182,200 shares of the company's stock after buying an additional 4,200 shares during the period.
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