Sentences with phrase «released by rainforest»
The work of 2014 Goldman Prize winner Rudi Putra is featured in a report released by Rainforest Action Network (RAN) earlier this week.
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In May 2001, five non-profit organizations that work on coffee conservation issues (Conservation International, Consumer's Choice Council, Rainforest Alliance, Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, and the Summit Foundation) took a step toward creating a unified front by releasing a document entitled «Conservation Principles for Coffee Production.»
The report «Feeding the Beast», released today by Friends of the Earth (FOE), describes how EU money invested in factory farms is contributing to clearing rainforests.
This huge «carbon sink» in the tropical rainforests roughly counterbalances releases from mankind's destruction of tropical rainforests by burning, logging and clearing.
Upon his release, R.J. is joined by Alyssa Rothman (Bullock), a fellow American who is dedicated to the cause of rainforest preservation.
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Maongabay: Carbon release, storage by rainforests may increase by 50b tons for each degree of climate warming in the tropics.
That is what is so worrying about the British Met Office's warning that the Amazon rainforest could die by mid-century, releasing its stored carbon from trees and soils into the air.
«The biofuels researcher Timothy Searchinger has calculated that once the massive release of greenhouse gases cause by converting grassland and rainforest into cropland is taken into account, introduction of biofuels produces increases in greenhouse emissions, the size of the rise being as much as a doubling for corn ethanol production,» Montford tells us.
(12/09/2009) A rainforest tribe fighting to save their territory from loggers owns the carbon - trading rights to their land, according to a legal opinion released today by Baker & McKenzie, one of the world's largest law firms.
Salt compounds released by fungi and plants in the Amazon rainforest have an important role in the formation of rain clouds, reports research published in the journal Science.
Thousands of square kilometers of the world's second - largest rainforest, the Congo Basin, sit on the verge of destruction, according to a new report released today by Earthsight, the London - based non-profit...
According to a statement released by the Brazilian government, the latest figures on the rate of deforestation in the world largest rainforest show a drop to the lowest levels since satellite monitoring began in 1988.
Data released by Brazil's National Space Research Institute (INPE) last November showed that 7,989 square kilometers of Brazilian Amazon rainforest were destroyed between August 2015 and July 2016.