The intensifying cutting of trees for firewood in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB) is not only worsening the region’s environmental challenges but is also contributing to a growing public health crisis. Read further on Dynamite News:
A new study led by scientists from the University of California has revealed how protecting tropical forests can yield climate benefits that enhance carbon storage in nearby areas.
Leaders of more than 100 countries representing over 85 per cent of the world’s forests will commit to end deforestation by 2030 under the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forest and Land Use at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow on Tuesday, the UK prime minister’s office said in a press release.
An order to stop the work on the Aarey metro car shed project was passed by newly sworn-in Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday.
According to the Brazilian government data released, the rate of deforestation in the Amazon rainforest has risen to the highest level in 11 years.
Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon jumped for the fifth straight month in September compared with last year, with destruction up 93% in the first nine months of the year, according to preliminary government data published on Friday.
Members of Brazil’s Mura indigenous tribe painted their bodies with orange-red paint and took up long bows and clubs as they headed into the jungle this week, prepared for battle. Their enemy? The deforestation and destruction of their home, the Amazon rainforest.
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