Archive for March, 2008
Deforestation in SE Asia caused by logging
Monday, March 31st, 2008I’ve been trying to find some good news to post, but alas have not run across anything worthy.Here is a good article on the major causes of destruction of tropical forests in Asia. excerpt: according to the UN’s Economics and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific (ESCAP), “Logging is undoubtedly the primary cause of degradation and indirectly [...]
Measuring a forest ‘breath’
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008A local scientific study of a pine forest’s carbon ‘respiration’. A small part of the concept that our planet is a living-breathing organism in the bigger universal sense. from chiefengineer.org