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Help stop the destruction of forests for biomass

06/10/202005/10/20203 weeks ago Gintare Tamulyte 249 Views 1 Comment Biodiversity, Europe, forest future, Forest loss, forests 3 min read

Currently, EU policy indicates that burning wood is “zero carbon” and “renewable energy”. However, this approach is only true if

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Deforestation in Europe increases

17/09/202016/09/20201 month ago Jonas Sommer 353 Views 1 Comment climate emergency, Europe, forest, Forest loss 2 min read

Forests cover roughly a third of our planet´s land and provide countless services to humanity. This is especially true in

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The climate crisis dries out Europe

10/08/202008/08/20203 months ago Jonas Sommer 478 Views 0 Comments climate, climate change, climate emergency, Climate Overheating, Europe, forest, forest future, Forest loss 4 min read

Many countries around Europe, especially Central Europe, sound the alarm. Ground water levels and soil moisture are on a historic

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Forests becoming shorter and younger: fires, droughts and pests

08/06/202003/06/20205 months ago Ziva Alif 696 Views 0 Comments climate change, Forest loss 3 min read

A new paper published in Science recently by McDowell et al. showed how the forests are becoming younger and shorter,

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Will burning forests be the new normal?

23/04/202029/04/20206 months ago Jonas Sommer 790 Views 0 Comments climate change, climate emergency, Climate Overheating, fire, forest, forest future, Forest loss, forests 4 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

07/04/202007/04/20207 months ago Jonas Sommer 1139 Views 1 Comment Corona, Forest loss 3 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

25/03/202023/03/20207 months ago Jonas Sommer 896 Views 1 Comment Beech forest, climate change, climate emergency, forest, Forest loss, Old growth forests 4 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

02/03/202028/06/20208 months ago Hanna Ollos 1392 Views 2 Comments Forest loss, Logging, Romania 4 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

25/02/202025/02/20208 months ago Vlado Vancura 1245 Views 0 Comments Europe, forest, forest future, Forest loss 2 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

03/02/202002/04/20209 months ago Vlado Vancura 992 Views 0 Comments Forest loss 3 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

18/12/201918/12/201910 months ago Vlado Vancura 1255 Views 0 Comments Europe, Forest loss 4 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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