Environmental stories tagged with: forests

Biofuel plantations on tropical forestlands are bad for the climate and biodiversity

Tuesday, 2nd December 2008, 12:44 pm

Keeping tropical rainforests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations, a study in the journal Conservation Biology finds.

Greenpeace activists block palm oil shipment in Indonesia

Monday, 10th November 2008, 7:29 pm

Dumai, Indonesia - In the latest stage of the Esperanza's Forests for Climate tour around south-east Asia, activists have arrived in Dumai, Indonesia to block a palm oil shipment from departing for Europe.

Conservatives Proposals to Slash Deforestation

Tuesday, 22nd May 2007, 11:21 am

Shadow Environment Secretary Peter Ainsworth has unveiled new Conservative proposals designed to put a price on the carbon stored in rainforests, and reduce deforestation by an estimated 75 per cent a year.