Russia and Brazil have, respectively, the two highest percentages of forest land in the world.  Russia’s forests comprise about 22% of the world’s forests in an area that is equivalent in size to the United States, while Brazil’s forests make about 16% of the world’s forests in its famous Amazon rainforests.  These forests, however, are [...]

Georgia Tech researcher and Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, Brian Stone, has recently suggested that poor land use law can help explain the global warming effect.  He cites information such as the fact that developed land often is created from cleared forest land, thus reducing the amount of absorbed carbon dioxide and replacing [...]

Despite the recent rise in emissions awareness, a number of alarming new reports suggest that states are not doing enough to reduce emissions.  Florida, for instance, has seen a 36% increase in emissions since 1990, while New Jersey has seen a 16% increase.  New Jersey is surrounded by states such as Pennsylvania and New York [...]

The federal government is now working in Jacksonville, Florida to close fishing of red snapper fish.  The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council claims that the red snapper population is at only three percent of the sustainable limit, and is dropping.  Further fishing, they say, could seriously harm the red snapper population permanently.  Right now the [...]

Currently, President Obama is taking a tour of China in order to meet the Chinese president Hu Jintao.  One of their topmost discussion topics will, of course, be reduction of carbon emissions.  So far, President Hu has pledged to cut down on carbon intensity significantly by 2020.  This is in keeping with America’s significant drop [...]