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February 3, 2021 For more information contact: Jim Britt at: jim.britt@maine.gov Task force will consider forest carbon storage incentives for small-to-medium size woodland owners to help protect their property while fighting climate change AUGUSTA, Maine - As part of Maines ambitious effort to fight climate change by reducing harmful greenhouse gas emissions, Governor Janet Mills has signed an Executive Order to create the Maine Forest Carbon Task Force. The Task Force is a recommendation fro...

Zooming loggers, high-fiving naturalists, and forest landowner workshops Published Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021, 10:22 am Join AFPs 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP | Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com Front Page » Breaking News » Zooming loggers, high-fiving naturalists, and forest landowner workshops In addition to offering many programs online during the pandemic, Virginia Master Naturalists ha...

  Biden’s focus on climate change to help environment, society, economic recovery, says Virginia Tech expert Carol Franco Published Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021, 9:59 am Join AFPs 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP | Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com Front Page » Government/Politics » Biden’s focus on climate change to help environment, society, economic recovery, says Virginia Tech expert Ca...

AUGUSTA, Maine -- President Joe Biden will sign a bundle of executive orders today, reversing more Trump-administration rollbacks and setting new goals. The orders range from protecting public lands, waters and coasts, to reining in corporate pollution. He also plans to establish a National Climate Task Force and add an Office of Climate Change in the U.S. ...

Fernandez talks with Public News Service about Biden’s climate change agenda Public News Service spoke with Ivan Fernandez, a University of Maine professor with the Climate Change Institute and the School of Forest Resources, about President Joe Biden’s aggressive approach to addressing climate change. “It’s never more important now than now to invest every dollar as wisely as possible, based on science, that moves us towards the future,” Fernandez said. “And it’s a lot easi...

denny-gallaudet-2 Bangor Daily News photo/Troy R. Benett MAKING MONEY GROW ON TREES -- Denny Gallaudet of Cumberland walks through the woodlot behind his house where hes lived for 40 years Bangor Daily News photo/Troy R. Benett MAKING MONEY GROW ON TREES -- Denny Gallaudet of Cumberland walks through the woodlot behind his house where hes lived for 40 years Maine stands to gain from carbon offsetting, but whether it fights climate change is complicated Contributed • January 19, 2021 B...

Race for renewables burns through Europe’s forests Wood pellets are sold as a clean alternative to coal, but campaigners say that a subsidized bioenergy boom in Europe is accelerating the climate crisis By Hazel Sheffield / The Guardian Kalev Jarvik stands on a bald patch of land in the heart of Estonia’s Haanja nature reserve and remembers when he could walk straight from one side of the reserve to the other under a canopy of trees. Jarvik has lived in the Haanja uplands in the southern ...

gneese@mininggazette.com HOUGHTON — Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, no winter research will be conducted at Isle Royale National Park this year. Researchers from Michigan Technological University, State University of New York College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Minnesota, Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, and the NPS had planned to come to the island this year. This is the first winter without research for the long-running ...

January 14, 2021 | Pacheedaht First Nation: An Example of Reconciliation and Development Stewart Muir Stewart Muir is founder and executive director of the Resource Works Society, a Vancouver-based group open to participation by British Columbians from all walks of life who are concerned about their future economic opportunities. He is an author, journalist and historian with experience on three continents including a financial editor of The Vancouver Sun responsible for mining and markets cov...

by Joan Chadde The Sustainability Film Series and facilitated discussion will begin its 11th year with the showing of "True Cost," a film about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry is having on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. This 2015 documentary film investigates who really pays the price for our clothing? The discussion facilitator will be  Soonkwan Hong ...