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Around 110,180 hectares of forest were destroyed in the Argentine provinces of Santiago del Estero, Formosa, Chaco, and Salta during the year 2021 as a result of illegal practices, according to Greenpeace.

Argentine President Alberto Fernández Tuesday appeared before the Glasgow Climate Change COP26 Summit with the same proposal he made days earlier in Rome during the G20 Summit.

La Secretaría de Desarrollo Territorial y Ambiente de la provincia informó que, bajo la modalidad virtual por los protocolos sanitarios vigentes, continúan desarrollándose los talleres informativos para actualizar el Ordenamiento Territorial de Bosques Nativos (OTBN) de la provincia. En ese marco, se informó que desde este martes 15, las actividades continuarán en los Municipios de las Regiones 1, 2 y 3. El cronograma de los talleres es el siguiente: martes 15 de junio a las 1...

Musicians are often concerned about environmental problems, but entangled in them through the materials used in their instruments. The guitar industry, which uses rare woods from old-growth trees, has been a canary in the coal mine — struggling with scandals over illegal logging, resource scarcity and new environmental regulations related to trade in endangered species of trees. We spent six years on the road tracing guitar-making across five continents, looking at the timber used — known i...

The Black Summer bushfires burned far more temperate forest than any other fire season recorded in Australia. The disaster was clearly a climate change event; however, other human activities also had consequences. Taking timber from forests dramatically changes their structure, making them more vulnerable to bushfires. And, crucially for the Black Summer bushfires, logged forests are more likely to burn out of control. Naturally, the drivers of the fires were widely debated during and after the...