From 2001 to 2021, Nigeria lost 1.14 million hectares of forest, equivalent to a 11% decrease in tree cover and equal to 587 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions, according to Global Forest Watch, a platform that provides data and monitors forests. Cutting down trees for logging, opening up farmland or to feed energy demand …
Nigeria’s disappearing forests – in pictures Lire la suite »
Entre les constructions modernes, si mal conçues qu’elles ne deviendront jamais des ruines et les constructions écologiques qui se réinventent ou disparaissent, nous pourrions ne plus léguer à nos descendants de ruines de notre temps. « L’écologie radicale et le capitalisme font des ruines des objets honteux, désuets, impossibles »
The trees here tower a hundred feet above the forest floor — a ceiling as high as in prehistory and vanishingly rare today. That’s because no logger’s axe has ever touched these woods. The ‘Lost Forty’: how a mapping error preserved an old-growth forest
The story of Rome’s unlikeliest lake begins with fake maps, an angry community, and a patch of very dry land. In the 1990s, at a construction site just a couple miles east of the storied Colosseum, a crew was digging into the ground, excavating the site of a planned underground parking lot. Lire la suite …
Rome’s Accidental Lake Is an Urban Refuge and Catalyst for Activism Lire la suite »
À la frontière entre la Biélorussie et la Pologne se dresse une vaste forêt de 142 000 hectares, dont les arbres semblent toucher le ciel. Lire la suite ici : Et si on recréait une forêt primaire en France ?
