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06/11/2018 / By Vicki Batts

Orangutan defends forest home from giant excavator ripping down trees

As the problem of deforestation continues to spread around the globe, one brave orangutan has decided that he’s had enough. Loggers were tearing down trees left and right in the Ketapang Regency on the island of Borneo, when the orangutan began defending its home. Daring to climb across a fallen tree, the fearless creature charged towards […]

03/21/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Species devastated by human depletion of rainforests found to make a comeback as forests regrow

The massive depletion of tropical rainforests have driven many species of tropical flora and fauna into extinction. But a recent study of bat populations in the Brazilian Amazon suggested that displaced survivors from primary forests could potentially recover if there are secondary forests that can take them in, reported Science Daily. This is good news for the […]

02/08/2018 / By David Williams

New kind of drones designed to plant up to 100,000 trees per day

Drone technology has been surprisingly useful for many kinds of recreational purposes. But one Australian engineer has begun to unlock its potential to serve as an industrial-scale solution for the problem of rejuvenating and preserving the environment. Dr. Susan Graham, now a U.K.-based professional, has developed a type of drone that could plant up to […]

06/05/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Outbreaks of malaria increase with deforestation, researchers find

Deforestation caused by humans may have a hand in the increasing number of malaria cases. That’s what Lehigh University researchers have asserted in their study, published in AIMS Environmental Science. By analyzing the conditions of 67 less-developed and malaria-endemic countries, the researchers were able connect growing malaria rates with human-induced environmental changes, reported ScienceDaily.com. Deforestation […]

06/05/2017 / By Mike Adams

Ten alarming, REAL threats to the environment that are widely ignored by “climate change” advocates

The art of climate fear mongering is rooted in the ability to terrorize the population over threats that hardly matter at all while completely ignoring the REAL threats to our global ecosystem. Isn’t it interesting how people who shudder in fear over President Trump pulling out of the Paris climate treaty say nothing about Fukushima […]

03/05/2017 / By Lance D Johnson

Burger King buys animal feed from soybean plantations that burn rainforests to the ground

Tropical rain forests are being deliberately burned to the ground and cleared away by hundreds of thousands of acres to make way for soybean plantations. Brazil and Bolivia have been hit the hardest. Animals such as the sloth, mighty jaguar, and giant anteater are disappearing in record numbers. According to a new investigative report by […]

12/15/2016 / By Vicki Batts

10% of the earth’s wilderness has disappeared since the 1990s

A new study has revealed that the amount of terrain untouched by man has been on a downward spiral for the last 20-some-odd years. A team of researchers led by the Wildlife Conservation Society and Australia’s University of Queensland has found that 10 percent of the earth’s vibrant wilderness has vanished over the past two decades. […]

12/09/2016 / By Daniel Barker

Deforestation in the Amazon increased 29 percent over the past year

The Amazon rainforest is being destroyed at an increasingly rapid rate, according to an annual study of satellite measurements conducted by the Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE). In late November, INPE released data showing that nearly 8,000 square kilometers of Amazon rainforest were lost to clear cutting between August 2015 and July 2016. […]

11/12/2015 / By Greg White

Anti-GMO movement celebrates double victory with Mexican court’s decision to ban GM soy and corn

Anti-GMO activists celebrated a victory after Mexico’s Supreme Court stopped a move that would permit the cultivation of GM soy in Campeche and Yucatán. In a separate ruling, the group celebrated another victory after a federal judge upheld a 2013 ruling that obstructed Monsanto, along with other biotech companies, from growing GM corn within the […]

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