Tag: forestry

• Thursday, May 9th 2019 - 12:56 UTC

  Ex Brazilian environment ministers blast Bolsonaro's forestry and water policies

  

  Eight former Brazilian environment ministers blasted new right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro and his administration in a letter on Wednesday, saying it is dismantling the country's environmental protections.

• Monday, November 19th 2018 - 09:05 UTC

  California inferno: 80 dead, 1,200 missing, 13.000 home turned into dust

  

  The number of people who remain missing in the wake of a pair of ferocious wildfires that have been blazing across both ends of California for more than a week spiked to more than 1,200 late Saturday.

• Monday, February 13th 2012 - 20:50 UTC

  Agriculture methods accelerate erosion and global warming, says UN report

  

  Global warming will get worse as agricultural methods accelerate the rate of soil erosion, which depletes the amount of carbon the soil is able to store, a United Nations' Environment Programme report said on Monday.