Rainforests News
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A Message From Paul Marushka, CEO
It’s clear investors are paying more attention to organizations’ environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals, but a company’s safety culture can factor into the equation as well—especially when it comes to reputation. You can’t put a price tag on human safety, of course, but that doesn’t mean incidents don’t have a cost. Besides potential ...
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Pathway to global climate catastrophe is clear
Here is a set of circumstances that could trigger global climate catastrophe. The Greenland ice sheet could begin a process of irreversible melting. As it does, greater quantities of fresh water would flood into the Arctic Ocean, to further slow the already slowing Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, that great flow of water sometimes called the Gulf Stream that distributes warmth from ...
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Sphera Celebrates 5 Years of Creating a Safer, More Sustainable and Productive World
Sphera has reached an exciting milestone as the company celebrates five years. The organization was established in 2016, but traces its roots back more than 30 years with leading software, data and services solutions in the Environmental, Health, Safety & Sustainability (EHS&S) and risk market. The company began with about 500 employees and has grown to 1,000 employees globally. It is ...
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Only intact forests can stave off climate change
In the last decade, the Amazon forests of Brazil released more carbon into the atmosphere than they absorbed, thanks largely to human activities that cleared or degraded the canopy. Those activities make it impossible for affected forests to stave off climate change. And a survey of the cooler forests of North America has revealed that these, too, could be surrendering more carbon than they soak ...
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Abstracts due, COVID and IA guest blog posts, and more
IAIA21, “Smartening Impact Assessment in Challenging Times,” is scheduled to take place 18-21 May 2021 in Seville, Spain. We are closely monitoring the worldwide situation surrounding COVID-19 and are simultaneously considering various conference formats should an alternative be necessary. Rest assured the event will be moving forward, in one way or another! See the video messages by ...
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The Great Ocean Road
The Great Ocean Road is one of the world's most scenic coastal drives. Filled with a diverse range of native wildlife and pristine rainforest, preserving this natural wonder is important to the team at Wastewater Australia. Stretching 243 kilometres along the south-eastern coast of Australia between Torquay and Allansford, this Australian National Heritage site is home to the towering 12 Apostles ...
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Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy Names Christine Lehnertz as President & CEO
The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy Board of Trustees today announced its selection of Christine S. Lehnertz as the organization’s new President & CEO. Lehnertz brings extensive experience managing some of America’s most iconic national parks and a passion for making parks relevant and accessible to all communities. She will begin work on May 13, 2019. At that time, Greg ...
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ALLCOT Group, Fazenda Terra Boa y Atlântica Simbios CSA sign an agreement to submit to Gold Standard certification a project to restore the Atlantic rainforest
Allcot Group, Fazenda Terra Boa and Atlântica Simbios CSA have celebrated the signature of a very valuable partnership agreement, with the objective of submitting to Gold Standard certification a project to restore the Atlantic rainforests of 391 hectares located inside the limits of Terra Boa farm property through the planting of approximately 392,725 native trees saplings of at least 80 ...
By ALLCOT
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Grey on Green: The Quiet Decline of One Tree in Alaska’s Temperate Rainforest
Culturally vital, ecologically unique, and economically valuable, the yellow cedar’s fate is closely tied to snow I am in the middle of the most pristine forest in North America; in all likelihood no one has stood where I stand for hundreds of years. And I am surrounded by dead trees. Huge, monolithic individuals, three feet across and over a hundred feet tall – and the vast majority ...
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More than 30 years of experience have really paid off: VACUDEST is operating successfully in over 50 countries
A lot has changed since we built the first VACUDEST in 1986. We haven’t just updated the look of our vacuum distillation systems. We’ve also made consistent improvements to technically modernise and optimise the VACUDEST in the last 30 years. Our patented technologies, such as Activepowerclean and Clearcat, guarantee that our customers benefit from ‘Made in Germany’ ...
By H2O GmbH
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10 years partnership between HSM and OroVerde
HSM GmbH + Co. KG, a South German manufacturer of shredders and baling presses, has been supporting the non-profit tropical forest foundation OroVerde for ten years. Ten years in which concrete projects for the conservation of the rainforest ecosystem were completed. The rainforests of Guatemala are a real treasure, where rare species such as the bright red macaw, howler monkey, the quetzal ...
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Lamor continues to develop its social responsibility presence in Peru
Lamor provides a variety of environmental services to the global community that prevent and combat the spread of pollution, defend and restore environments when an incident occurs, and remediate contaminated and impacted lands and materials. Lamor is universally renowned for the development and production of innovative, high-tech equipment designed to prevent, collect and recover varying types of ...
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Cardboard likely chewed-up rainforest
No George Monbiot, corrugated cardboard is not likely to be from rainforest A statement from the Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) in response to the article by George Monbiot in the Guardian of 11th January 2018 entitled “May’s plastic plan is big on gimmicks, but it won’t cut waste”. In Mr Monbiot’s column he erroneously suggested that cardboard, if used in ...
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Jumeirah Port Soller Hotel & Spa Offsets 2015 Carbon Emissions from Employee Trips
Jumeirah Port Soller Hotel & Spais pleased to announce that they have signed an agreement with ALLCOT, an international company that offers various services related to climate protection develops projects to offset carbon emissions produced by employee trips in 2015 thus demonstrating their commitment to the fight against climate change. The total volume of emissions generated by the ...
By ALLCOT
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Paris pledges fall short on emissions
National promises made late last year to contain carbon dioxide emissions will not be nearly enough to meet the global warming target agreed last December by 195 nations, according to a new assessment. The signatories to the historic agreement at the UN conference on climate change in Paris pledged to limit global warming to below 2°C and to aim for no more than 1.5°C rise above ...
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Rainstorms raise airborne dust problem
Researchers have identified an unexpected generator of the fine organic dust that blows in the wind. They blame it on raindrops. Researchers from two national laboratories in the US, and colleagues, report in Nature Geoscience journal that tiny, glassy spheres of carbon-based materialfound in the air are the residue from rain spattering on the soil. Having observed the effect after one powerful ...
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Risk Matrices, an Interconnected World and More…
On this week’s edition of EHS This Week we’ve got the week’s top stories in environment, health and safety news: Risk matrices and the context of organizational risks The global nature of sustainability initiatives Remember to write us with your suggestions, questions and comments. Also, if you are an industry expert and ever want to take part in the program, we’d ...
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Local destabilization can cause complete loss of West Antarctica’s ice masses
The huge West Antarctic ice sheet would collapse completely if the comparatively small Amundsen Basin is destabilized, scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research find. A full discharge of ice into the ocean is calculated to yield about 3 meters of sea-level rise. Recent studies indicated that this area of the ice continent is already losing stability, making it the first ...
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Abrupt climate change can occur below 2°C warming
Climate change could arrive with startling speed. New research has identified at least 37 “tipping points” that would serve as evidence that climate change has happened – and happened abruptly in one particular region. And 18 of them could happen even before the world warms by an average of 2°C, the proposed “safe limit” for global warming. Weather is what ...
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And the peatland drainage continues… How not to stop the haze
This new video report from Al Jazeera (8-10-2015) shows how peat fires caused by palm oil plantations are threatening adjacent rainforests and their carbon-rich peatsoils in Katingan in Central Kalimantan. But it gets worse because of more canals built nearby the areas to fight the fires...! As peatland drainage is the root cause to Indonesia’s peat fires, the ONLY long-term answer to the ...
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