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Indigenous people are engaged in a fierce battle to defend the Amazon forest from illegal logging and it’s working. Deforestation in indigenous territories is much lower than in other areas. But those efforts are now threatened. 
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The new guys in charge of Brazil describe themselves as great for business interests — as for the environment, campaigners say not so much.
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The consequence of regime shift...
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Just four commodities—beef, soy, palm oil, and wood products—drive the majority of global deforestation. And consumers can help stop it.
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As I was getting a ride home from the car repair shop today, the shuttle had an interesting radio show on. It was a discussion with a person of a particular political persuasion saying how "doom and gloom" and "naysayers" get too much press and are a part of the problem with the world these days. While we can of course swerve too far down the "world is ending" path, simply saying that key drivers of degradation are not happening is a childish or cynical ploy. But one example of the challenges we face is this brief overview of drivers of forest conversion to human-dominated landscapes. While I generally do not like these "info graphics," in cases such as the dork on the radio, these might be the right level of tone and complexity.
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The Forest Stewardship Council, which promotes the responsible management of the world's woodlands, says the wood Ikea cuts from forests in Karelia, Russia, isn't being harvested sustainably.
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What isn't sustainable about nuking centuries old trees for a TV stand for a divorced middle aged guy who needs to furnish his apartment or for a college kid she need s a bookshelf in her dorm room?
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A new "national scenic" trail from the Continental Divide to the Pacific should be routed around the Yaak Valley bear country in northwestern Montana.
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In a sweeping synthesis of global data, the United Nations Environment Programme has intensively catalogued environmental assaults across the globe.
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Again, the emphasis we see is on pollution, etc. While the ultimate drivers (gross numbers of humans and the affluence with which we live) are not front and center.
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Big new investors such as the Asian Infrastructure Development Bank are key players in a worldwide infrastructure, and that could be bad news for the environment.
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More than 200 million people around the world are at risk of exposure to toxic waste, a report has concluded. The authors say the large number of people at risk places toxic waste in a similar league to public health threats such as malaria and tuberculosis. The study from the Blacksmith Institute and Green Cross calls for greater efforts to be made to control the problem. The study carried out in more than 3,000 sites in over 49 countries.
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Ummm...okay. I agree we have some good candidates for places so polluted you don't want to live there. But the bigger issue is outright ecosytem destruction/fragmentation and overharvesting of non-renewable resources.
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