Good News Notes: “Aldo Sánchez surveys a field of lofty banana trees, with cacao plants bursting with fruit nestled beneath. “Two and a half years ago, this was pure pasture,” he says. Indeed, his neighbour’s field is just grass. Four decades ago, a swath of land including his farm in Jabillos in central Costa Rica…
Tag: deforestation
Climate change and deforestation: These 3 supertrees can protect us from climate collapse
Good News Notes: “The Brazil nut tree makes, well, tasty nuts. But its real superpower is channeling an extraordinary amount of water from the soil to the sky, making the rainforest rain.” “Our current climate crisis is a result of humans putting too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Luckily, trees (and other natural systems)…
Technology Being Used to Combat Freshwater Shortages, Deforestation
Good News Notes: “As it stands globally freshwater is a scarcity and it’s only expected to get worse as the population grows. One of the biggest users of freshwater are larger thermoelectric power plants, making up 39% of the freshwater withdrawn in the U.S. alone, said Karim Khalil, co-founder, and CTO of Infinite Cooling during…
New monkey discovered on “island” amid deforestation in Brazil
Good News Notes: “DNA analysis has revealed a “new” species of monkey that only survives today because its habitat is difficult to access and therefore hasn’t been converted for large-scale agriculture, reports New Scientist. Writing in Primate Conservation, a team of scientists analyzed the traits of a group of titi monkeys rediscovered in 2011 in the…
Climate change: My Roots in Africa startup is planting trees with blockhain
Good News Notes: “Every year, about 15 billion trees are cut down globally, and across Africa, deforestation rates have surpassed the global annual average of 0.8 percent. Forests in West and East Africa, where conservation efforts are not matching deforestation activities, have undergone almost complete decline between the 1900s and 2017, according to a comparison…
Brazil environment agency launches operation to combat Amazon deforestation
https://news.yahoo.com/brazil-environment-agency-launches-operation-095845708.html
Working landscapes can support diverse bird species
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-06/uoc–wlc053019.php
Paraguayan indigenous community goes digital to protect ancestral lands
https://nypost.com/2019/05/20/indigenous-community-going-digital-to-protect-ancestral-lands/
Fighting Deforestation
https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2019-03-04/top-cocoa-nations-buyers-firm-up-plans-to-fight-deforestation