by Gary Chandler | Oct 27, 2021 | Global Warming
Carbon Sinks Becoming Carbon Generators Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reached a new record last year, despite the pandemic lockdown. The world will reach new records in 2021 according to the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It’s been at least 3...
by Gary Chandler | May 2, 2019 | Carbon Capture
Trees Also Shelter Us From Climate Change What’s low-tech, sustainable and possibly the most effective thing that we can do to fight global warming and climate change? Planting trees and saving forests. Tom Crowther is a climate change ecologist at Swiss...
by Gary Chandler | Feb 21, 2014 | Deforestation
Reforestation Plan Draws Criticism Government’s biggest environmental project, the National Greening Program, is meeting its yearly reforestation targets, but critics ask, are we even planting the right trees? On Friday, February 21, civil society...
by Gary Chandler | May 21, 2009 | Reforestation
Haitian Reforestation Vital To Stabilization Small farmers could play an important part in making Haiti – where just two percent of trees are still standing – green again. With a population of 10 million and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 7.8 billion dollars, Haiti,...
by Gary Chandler | Apr 5, 2009 | Sustainable Agriculture
Reforestation and Sustainable Agriculture By Caity Peterson, Researcher and Science Writer, Center for International Tropical Agriculture A misty green landscape tucked away in the countryside near Chimaltenango, Guatemala, is home to Mayan ruins — and an...