Tree planting is one of the nature-based solutions being used to offset greenhouse gas emissions. Trees absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide. Many of these tree planting projects target Africa's rangelands (open grasslands or shrublands used by livestock and wild animals).
Now as part of National Pet Month in April, housebuilders Barratt and David Wilson Homes have teamed up with the UK’s leading animal charity, RSPCA, to provide pet owners with advice to make moving home as stress-free as possible for animals. Sam Wood, Sales Director at Barratt and David Wilson Homes, said: “We want our customers’ home moving journey to be as stress-free as possible, and that includes keeping their pets happy! That’s why we’ve teamed up with the RSPCA to ensure a happy move all...
Each night for Mirna Soza was a bit like the last. She worked every day for the last three years as a security guard at Original Tommy's hamburgers in North Hills, clocking in around 7 p.m. and working until 3 or 4 a.m. Then, usually, she would hang around the restaurant until the sun started to rise before taking public transit home, where she would sleep until she had to wake up and do it again. It was safer to ride when the sun came up, she thought. But sometimes she was too tired to wait and...
In the past 10 years the idea that trees communicate with and look after each other has gained widespread currency. But have these claims outstripped the evidence? There are a lot of humans. Teeming is perhaps an unkind word, but when 8 billion people cram themselves on to a planet that, three centuries before, held less than a tenth of that number, it seems apt. Eight billion hot-breathed individuals, downloading apps and piling into buses and shoving their plasticky waste into bins – it is a...
The poignant and permanent display is a bold move to save 'the local'
The firm was paid more than £690,000 in public cash to plant saplings at the Lost Forest as BrewDog boss James Watt once said he was willing to let his company go bust over the venture.
The bridge synonymous with Kurt Cobain in North Aberdeen is reaching a point where there may not be any turning back, so an author from the other side of the country is trying to save it before it’s too late.
In 1998, photographer Sebastião Salgado and his wife Lélia embarked on a remarkable journey to revive the ecosystem in a part of Brazil.
Climate change has taken up a permanent presence in our global discourse. The broad issue is complex, riddled with an assortment of challenges.Yet in the mainstream, the idea of climate change is regularly oversimplified, and the conversation around this multifaceted topic invariably circles back to one element: carbon.As the primary contributor to the greenhouse effect and our changing climate, it’s understandable why carbon – and its capture and removal – has become the central character in...
The incident happened at a North Carolina apartment complex, where people were seen holding the bears and taking photos, according to N.C. Wildlife.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- A man from West Plains charged with illegally harvesting and stealing trees from the Mark Twain National Forest has been sentenced in federal court Tuesday. 40-year-old Justin Lee Massey of West Plains will serve two years and six months in federal prison without parole and will serve that sentence consecutively with his []
It happened Monday evening on San Timoteo Canyon Road.