Enlarge / Deforestation in Amazon to create grazing for cattle. (credit: LeoFFreitas | Getty Images) The Amazon rainforest is losing its ability to recover from destruction, and parts of it are approaching “a catastrophic tipping point”, warns a leading scientist after a new study using two decades of satellite data. The research found that in […]
Enlarge / A forest activist inspects land clearing and drainage of a peat natural forest in Riau province, Sumatra, Indonesia in 2014. (credit: Ulet Ifansasti | Getty Images) The world has lost a third of its forest since the last ice age, and an estimated 15 percent of global greenhouse gases still come from deforestation […]
The Italian white truffle proceeds to violate records. This valuable fungus–known, white golden –has long been a symbol of gastronomic decadence, standing, gram for gram, as among the most expensive foods on the planet –up there with all Iranian beluga caviar and saffron. This season isn’t any different. An fall from restaurant dining, global […]
Mars Inc., the manufacturer of Snickers and Dove candies, is trimming the positions of its palm-oil providers and states it’s eliminated those who can not devote to preventing deforestation. The business said on Tuesday {} reached the point at which its own palm-oil usage is no longer contributing to the remaining tropical woods –a practice […]