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2/9/2010
More than 80 percent of agricultural expansion in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came at the expense of
forests, reports research published last week in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...
1/9/2010
Burger King announced it would no longer source palm oil from Sinar Mas, an Indonesian conglomerate, after an independent audit showed one of the company's subsidiaries had destroyed rainforests and carbon-dense peatlands in Borneo and Sumatra, ...
30/8/2010
Biofuels companies from the U.K. to Brazil and China are buying up large swaths of Africa, causing deforestation and diverting land from food to fuel production, the environmental group Friends of the Earth said.
Across the continent ...
28/8/2010
Environmentalists on Friday criticized a decision by agribusiness giant Cargill Inc to continue buying palm oil from Indonesian firm PT Smart Tbk after SMART received a mixed score in a green audit.
Greenpeace has alleged in its reports ...
26/8/2010
Cargill has not suspended its relationship with a palm oil company recently exposed for misleading investors and buyers on its environmental transgressions, reports the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), an activist group campaigning against ...
26/8/2010
Wildfires have cost Russia 300 billion dollars in forest loss, environmentalists said on Thursday, explaining the scale of the disaster by Vladimir Putin's "absurd" changes to forestry law.
The economic damage amounts to 25,000 dollars ...
19/8/2010
Sinar Mas, an Indonesian conglomerate whose holdings include Asia Pulp and Paper, a paper products brand, and PT Smart, a palm oil producer, was sharply rebuked Wednesday over a recent report where it claimed not to have engaged in destruction of ...
17/8/2010
Indonesia hopes to renegotiate its US$1 billion deal with Norway on reducing carbon emissions by curbing deforestation, hoping Norway will accept tree planting as an eligible part of the program.
“We hope REDD+ activities could be ...
12/8/2010
Asia Pulp & Paper, which has long been a target of green groups for deforestation and threatening imperiled species, is touting a new audit the pulping company says finds allegations made by environmental NGOs, including
Greenpeace and WWF, are ...
11/8/2010
Indonesian paper firm Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) on Wednesday released an audit it said showed allegations it destroyed rainforest were baseless and invalid.
The audit marks the latest chapter in an increasingly bitter dispute between ...
11/8/2010
Wildfires threatened to stir radioactive particles left over from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster back into the air over western Russia, and authorities boosted forest patrols to keep the flames from contaminated ...
11/8/2010
Fires have scorched
forests contaminated with radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a Russian forestry official said on Wednesday, but it was unclear how dangerous the smoke might be.
Kremlin leaders are already grappling with ...
11/8/2010
Fires have scorched
forests contaminated with radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a Russian forestry official said on Wednesday, but it was unclear how dangerous the smoke might be.
Kremlin leaders are already grappling with ...
11/8/2010
Indonesian palm oil giant PT SMART Tbk on Tuesday got a mixed score card in an environmental audit, leaving in doubt whether key buyers including Unilever will renew contracts with the firm.
Both SMART, which is part of Singapore-listed ...
10/8/2010
Some have cited the reform of forest law, initiated by Vladimir Putin in 2007, as a possible explanation for the scale of the forest fires in Russia. Is this justified?
Indeed, but the changes to forest law were just the last step in the ...
10/8/2010
Indonesian palm oil giant PT SMART Tbk on Tuesday got a mixed score card in an environmental audit, leaving in doubt whether key buyers including Unilever will renew contracts with the firm.
Both SMART, which is part of Singapore-listed ...
10/8/2010
Indonesia's biggest palm oil producer said Tuesday it had been cleared of allegations made by environmental group
Greenpeace that it had destroyed high conservation-value
forests on Borneo.
A report commissioned by SMART, part of the ...
5/8/2010
Indonesia. Palm oil giant Sinar Mas Agro Resources and Technology, accused by green groups of clearing valuable forest, aims to expand its plantations by 50,000 hectares a year, the company’s president director said on Thursday.
Smart ...
30/7/2010
Greenpeace says key wildlife habitats are being destroyed
Greenpeace has accused a major Indonesian conglomerate of continuing to log in high conservation-value rainforests.
The environmental activists' group said subsidiaries ...
29/7/2010
Greenpeace made fresh allegations Thursday that units of Indonesian paper and palm oil giant Sinar Mas are clearing high conservation-value
forests including habitats of endangered orangutans.
Greenpeace Indonesia forest campaigner ...
29/7/2010
That isn't the most politically correct course of action in a country in which cattle ranching is often linked with destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Batistella even has a satellite image on his office wall, showing the world's largest ...
29/7/2010
Greenpeace said on Thursday it had fresh evidence that palm oil firms linked to Indonesian agribusiness giant Sinar Mas have bulldozed rainforest and destroyed endangered orangutan habitats in Kalimantan.
The charges were denied by palm ...
29/7/2010
Indonesia's largest palm and pulp group is still destroying critical habitats, claims
Greenpeace in an investigation published today.
The non-governmental organisation (NGO) has published new photographic evidence, aerial monitoring and ...
22/7/2010
Tropical deforestation claimed roughly 13 million hectares of forest per year during the first half of this decade, about the same rate of loss as the 1990s. But while the overall numbers have remained relatively constant, they mask a transition ...
21/7/2010
A first-of-a-kind map plotted by scientists using data from NASA satellites shows the Earth's tallest and shortest
forests; it is hoped that the map can be used to predict the spread of forest fires and monitor the effects of deforestation and ...