positive Forests news
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Greenpeace lauds historic new pact to save Canada’s Boreal ForestGreenpeace today joined eight other environmental groups and forest companies in the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) to announce the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement, an historic pact that will lead to large-scale protection of wilderness areas in Canada’s Boreal Forest, protection of threatened woodland caribou and significantly higher environmental standards for forest management. |
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The unexpected benefits of canary grassResearchers seeking to beautify contaminated industrial sites found success in more ways than one when they struck upon an unexpected new source for green biomass fuel. |
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Green iPhone apps highlightedA new iPhone app is aiming to challenge climate change sceptics by providing them with the info needed to understand the effects and implications of global warming. |
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Sony unveils green mini laptopSony is targeting the green pound with its latest offering, an eco-friendly mini laptop which is manufactured, in part, from recycled compact disks. |
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UN helps save chimps from volcanoEndangered chimpanzees and other wildlife in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are being monitored by a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping aircraft following a volcanic eruption in Virunga National Park. |
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10 green resolutions to save you moneyBy taking green steps at home, you can save money and make life easier. |
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Looking ahead, Brazil’s farmers take up reforestationFor nearly 20 years, Luiz Alberto Bortolini cleared trees and planted soybeans as fast as he could, one of many pioneers who turned this barren outpost into prosperous farmland. |
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Macedonia in Massive Reforestation EffortThousands of Macedonians including local athletes, pop stars, actors and politicians joined forces Friday to plant trees all over the country. |
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VisionWorks Award 2009: Big Prizes for Vertical Gardens, Bacteria Packaging and MoreCongrats to Manuel Dreesmann who received the first prize at this year's VisionWorks Award -- Cargopacks 2020. |
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Planting fruit trees is part of hurricane recoveryListening to Cam Akin, one gets the impression that fruit trees can save the world. |
evironmental news headlines
- Norwegian government boycotts Malaysian timber giant
- 100MW solar power plant to be built in the UAE
- New road concrete developed that actually cleans the air
- Russia and China vow to protect Siberian tigers
- Cannabis electric car to be made in Canada
- Fortune 500 Companies Flex Market Muscle, Reject Tar Sands
- New Study Shows Americans Used Less Energy and More Renewables in 2009
- Smallest frog in Asia discovered in Borneo
- Scientists hope to collect electricity from the air
- White House crackdown on dirty trucks gathers pace
- Spray-on film turns glass into solar panels
- Mexico City bans free plastic bags
- No deepwater drilling without environmental studies: U.S.
- A splinter of hope in the fight against illegal logging
- Solar power plant plans move ahead in California
- Cleanup of Superfund Site Completed in Morris County, New Jersey
- New Zealand retracts plans to open up rare frog habitat to mining
- Penalties promised for illegal wood sales
- EPA Rejects Claims of Flawed Climate Science
- Amazon deforestation in dramatic decline, official figures show
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