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Will burning forests be the new normal?

23/04/202029/04/20201 month ago Jonas Sommer 331 Views 0 Comments climate change, climate emergency, Climate Overheating, fire, forest, forest future, Forest loss, forests min read

The climate crisis is the worst crisis in human history and it will affect almost every aspect of the environment

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How environmental destruction paves the way for pandemics

07/04/202007/04/20202 months ago Jonas Sommer 595 Views 0 Comments Corona, Forest loss min read

We are witnessing the worst pandemic of the last hundred years right now. But it did not happen by sheer

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Wild forests protect the climate

25/03/202023/03/20202 months ago Jonas Sommer 438 Views 1 Comment Beech forest, climate change, climate emergency, forest, Forest loss, Old growth forests min read

There is a wide consent that forests are the most efficient tool to fight the climate crisis. However, the question

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Romania is unable to stop the logging mafia – the European Commission steps in

02/03/202003/03/20203 months ago Hanna Ollos 692 Views 2 Comments Forest loss, Logging, Romania min read

This February, the European Commission announced that it is taking legal action to stop the vast illegal logging that has

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Percentage of European forest cover is misguiding information

25/02/202025/02/20203 months ago Vlado Vancura 716 Views 0 Comments Europe, forest, forest future, Forest loss min read

Our planet is at the edge of ecological collapse. One of the fundamental reasons is several centuries of deforestation and

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The history of European forest exploitation

03/02/202002/04/20204 months ago Vlado Vancura 560 Views 0 Comments Forest loss min read

European forests dramatically suffered not only in the last decades but ever since the development of agriculture and permanent settlement

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Challenge to protect European forests

18/12/201918/12/20195 months ago Vlado Vancura 769 Views 0 Comments Europe, Forest loss min read

European forests are under extreme pressure. We can read almost daily the stories that somewhere in Europe forests are dying, logged and disappearing. The initial event leading

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