Comment on this storyComment Invasive pests are wreaking havoc across the planet, destroying crops, disseminating pathogens, depleting fish people rely on for food and driving native plants and animals toward extinction, according to a major report backed by the United Nations. The landmark assessment found more than 3,500 harmful invasive species cost society more than $423 billion a year, a …

Tropical forests can help to mellow the impact of climate change by acting as a carbon sink, sucking up more carbon from the atmosphere than they pump out. However, new research has suggested that a powerful El Niño event managed to “switch off” this ability in the forests in South America, which raises some worrying possibilities for the future.  Forests …

Thousands of invasive species introduced to new ecosystems around the world are causing more than $423 billion in estimated losses to the global economy every year by harming nature, damaging food systems and threatening human health, a wide-ranging scientific report published on Monday has found. The costs have at least quadrupled every decade since 1970, according to the report, which …

Tree City USA Tree Campus High Education and Tree Line USA designations PUBLISHED ON September 4, 2023 The N.C. Forest Service Urban and Community Forestry program has announced that 73 communities, 14 campuses and four utilities have been awarded Tree City USA, Tree Campus Higher Education and Tree Line USA designations for 2022. (Photo by Frames For Your Heart on …

In the coming weeks and months, dozens of Great Bend High School students will be visiting businesses and learning employability skills. Some of them may discover a career they want to pursue after graduation. Some may decide to go into business for themselves. The students are enrolled in a multi-year program called JAG-K – which stands for Jobs for America’s …

Natural England has started work to increase biodiversity on additional land at Wybunbury Moss, one of England’s oldest established national nature reserves, near Crewe, in Cheshire. This follows an agreement with the Church Commissioners for England to lease two fields of 14.94 acres in an effort to protect the moss and restore the fields to a more natural state. Work …

In this edition of the Spotlight we hear from Holmen Iggesund about its ‘renewable and sustainable’ paperboard at ‘the front and centre’ of the future of packaging. Brands that are serious about sustainability need to look for new alternatives to reduce and replace fossil-based materials. Nowhere is this more true than in packaging. With both consumers and governments demanding renewable packaging solutions, premium …

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – The South Dakota Community Foundation announces a recent endowment to the Historic Homestake Opera House to support the organization’s specialized arts outreach program looking to create new beginnings for at-risk teens of the Lawrence County Teen Court system. Through endowment building and generous donors, Beth Massa, SDCF’s Director of Foundation Relations says they have a …

A new study has uncovered intriguing insights into the evolution of plant biology, effectively rewriting the history of how they evolved over the past billion years. The research, published today in Nature Plants, shows plants have gradually developed their range of anatomical designs throughout the passage of time, punctuated by episodic bursts of innovation to overcome and adapt to environmental …

This past June 13, 2023, Presidential Decree 06-2023, “Creating the National Policy to Avoid Deforestation and Degradation of Forests”, was published in La Gaceta, Official Gazette, which is of general application to all entities. State, natural or legal persons, national or foreign, throughout the national territory (the “Forest Policy”). The Forest Policy aims to promote actions that prevent deforestation and …