Viscose-Rayon: Next Big Thing in Sustainable Fashion

... story, about April's sustainable forest management, about the work ... Our goal is to make us less reliant on imports," Cherie ... Program for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC); ensuring that ... quality of our product, the service we give to our customers ...

Giving Hope to the Children of Papua

... mountains are covered with verdant forest. The river that runs ... they did not hurt us, they accepted us," Stephen said. Stephen ... completely sterile of any official service, untouched by the government. ... , should motivate more of us to take concrete steps to ...

Fight Fires With Indigenous Knowledge, Researchers Say

... to the Prisma Foundation. The US Forest Service formed a partnership with the ... the annual budget of the US Forest Service, which is in charge of ... a 2015 report by the US Department of Agriculture. In ... for 16 percent of the Forest Service's yearly budget, and ...

Silent Killer: Sweltering Planet Braces for Deadly Heat Shocks

... , according to the US National Weather Service. And the problem ... harvests and creating more severe forest fires, with choking smoke. ... at the fringes of a forest. Paradoxically, however, it's ... based on property damage," US sociologist Klinenberg said. Extreme ...

Massive Copper Mine Tests Trump's Push to Slash Regulation

... in the Tonto National Forest overlying the copper deposit. ... state regulators. Instead, the US Forest Service is leading the study, ... 2016 public meeting with Forest Service officials at Superior High ... message he believed the US Forest Service was doing "a good ...

Where Jobs Are Plentiful, Trump Supporters Want Better

... states and counties across the US. By his calculation, about ... with customers. His former employer, Forest River Inc, part of Warren ... . The average wage on US factory floors dropped below the ... an hour for all workers. Service workers, meanwhile, pushed ahead of ...

Not-So-Super Pumas: Mysterious Ban on a Life-Saving Chopper

... heads. They drop water on forest fires, rescue islanders after a ... they have come back to service and more have been added ... operation, opting instead for the US-made Sikorsky. Slowly, the 225 ... insisting it stay out of service. This has raised questions within ...

Inside Amazon Reserve, High-End Chocolate Thrives With Forest

... — chocolate. "This is virgin forest," Oliveira, 62, told the Thomson ... source... cocoa helps us protect the forest." Farmers in the ... director of Brazil's forestry service. Brazilian officials say projects ... they are preserving the forest." With help from German ...

Poland's Disappearing Lakes Fuel Battle Over Coal Mining

... and lakes surrounded by dense forest and pretty cottages. But ... -control. WATER DROPS NOT US: COMPANY KWB Konin said ... a specialist with the Miradzskie forest service, an area also part of ... just seven kms from the forest would have "devastating consequences". ...

Locked out of Their Forests, Kenya's Sengwer People Fight Back

... . "If they caught us, they'd arrest us." In the darkness, ... 10 other families fleeing Kenya Forest Service (KFS) guards in the ... "We are calling on Kenya Forest Service to stop this continued harassment ... with KFS and Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) to stop poaching, ...