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The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) today released "Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.3 (SAP 4.3): The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity in the United States." The CCSP integrates the federal research efforts of 13 agencies on climate and global change.
The Project for Excellence in Journalism has released a study examining the front pages of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal from December 13th through March 13th 2008. The report found that both the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times essentially buried environmental stories, as environmental news for both papers made up only 1 percent of the total front page.
The Southern forests of North America supply 60% of US and 15% of global paper demands. Deforestation for wood and paper products, along with urban sprawl, has resulted in a total decline from 356 million acres in colonial times to 182 million acres today. The South contains more threatened forest ecosystems than anywhere else in the US.
Matthew W. Yancey insists that taking care of woodlands makes sense as well as dollars.
"Forestry management means keeping a forest healthy and productive," Yancey said. "If you let it sit idle, it will decrease in value."
The state Department of Natural Resources has received "green certification" for 145,000 acres of forest in Western Washington.
The certification, from a group called the Forest Stewardship Council, covers state trust lands from the Kitsap Peninsula to the foothills of the Cascade Range east of Seattle and Tacoma.
The nation's housing crunch has been a buzzkill for timber producers, but there is a glimmer of hope in one particular segment of the industry - the growing market for certified wood products.
Green building materials, those from sustainable managed forests in the West, have developed a strong and growing market, according to industry leaders.
High prices have thrown off the business plan at Peace Coffee. But it's not the price of coffee or oil that's the problem. It's soybeans.
The conscientious Minneapolis seller of fair trade coffee makes a point to fuel its delivery van with biodiesel. Last year, it could.
Several countries at the World Trade Organization (WTO) criticized the new U.S. farm bill on Monday for raising farm support when the WTO is trying to reach a deal to cut agricultural subsidies.
The White House said Thursday it opposes trade enforcement legislation introduced by Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, who nonetheless said he would press on with a markup next month.
The outrageous success of bottled water, in a country where more than 89 percent of tap water meets or exceeds federal health and safety regulations, regularly wins in blind taste tests against name-brand waters, and costs 240 to 10,000 times less than bottled water, is an unparalleled social phenomenon, one of the greatest marketing coups of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
A major fundraising effort that will protect 342,000 acres of Down East forest and hundreds of miles of remote waterfront from developers has been completed, preservation groups and Gov. John Baldacci announced Tuesday.
Forest fires are a significant, natural and necessary element of Canada's boreal forest, yet when they threaten our values, such as our communities and timber resources, they become unwanted and we try to limit their extent through suppression activities. Fire's occurrence, spread and suppression are strongly linked with day-to-day weather.
British Columbia is in a race against time to remove and replenish pine stands that have been killed by mountain pine beetle.
At stake is B.C.'s contribution to staving off global warming.
When the Senate Foreign Relations Committee met last week to examine the global food crisis, Russ Feingold said something that might have sounded parochial coming from one of the chamber's few genuine internationalists.
Today, the Natural Resources Defense Council and 26 other U.S. and Canadian environmental groups sent a letter to the Senate and House urging preservation of Section 526 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA).
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today called on the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources to lift a moratorium that essentially bars the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from leasing land for commercial oil shale development.