Environmental stories tagged with: rainforests

Palm oil plantation

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.
Deforestation

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.
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