Trees are dying left and right this summer. Sprawling canopies of huge oaks turn brown almost overnight. Cypress trees redden and lose leaves months early.
The trees are hard to miss, and arborists, tree services and the Volusia County Cooperative Extension Service say they're fielding "tons of calls."
There are periods in every young person's life that irrevocably cast the template for the future. For some, it's the military; for others, it's law school, a year spent globe-trotting, maybe just the first job.
Land owners are to be given the right to sell "carbon-credits" generated by certain so-called permanent forests.
Tradable carbon-credits are part of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, and create an economic value for the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
The forestry department says at least 100000ha of communally owned land has been identified for forestry development that will benefit rural communities.
This city believes an answer for global warming is growing on trees.
About 375,000 shade trees have been given away to city residents in the past 16 years, and there are plans to plant at least 4 million more. To receive up to 10 free trees, residents simply call the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, a publicly owned power company.
Restoring the forest resources of the depleted areas of the country would curb the problem of flooding in a sustainable manner, a researcher working with the Forum for Social Studies (FSS) said.
Brazil's environment minister Friday unveiled an electronic registry for the transport and storage of all forestry products, which she said would help in the battle against illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest.
"Our goal is stop all illegal logging," Minister Marina Silva told reporters at a conference in Sao Paulo. "This system is more transparent and more efficient."
