maugendre , 3 months ago to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. Humans do not do climate change. Some activities do climate change. #Anthropocene period during which human activities have impacted the environment enough to constitute a distinct geological change. #biomass living organisms, and the energy contained within them. #ecosystem community and interactions of living and nonliving things in an area. #Holocene began at the end of the last glacial period, about 10,000 years ago. https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/age-man-enter-anthropocene/ @anthropocene @technique @climate @climate
Humans do not do climate change. Some activities do climate change.
#Anthropocene period during which human activities have impacted the environment enough to constitute a distinct geological change.
#biomass living organisms, and the energy contained within them.
#ecosystem community and interactions of living and nonliving things in an area.
#Holocene began at the end of the last glacial period, about 10,000 years ago.
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/age-man-enter-anthropocene/ @anthropocene @technique @climate @climate
RichardAshwell , 4 months ago to random Drax: UK power station burns wood from rare forests A power company that has received £6bn in UK green subsidies has kept burning wood from some of the world's most precious #forests, the BBC has found. Papers obtained by Panorama show #Drax took timber from rare forests in Canada it had claimed were "no go areas". It comes as the government decides whether to give the firm's Yorkshire site billions more in environmental #subsidies funded by #energy bill payers. #deforestation #Climate #ClimateChange #AxeDrax #RenewableEnergy #Biomass #Biofuels https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68381160
Drax: UK power station burns wood from rare forests
A power company that has received £6bn in UK green subsidies has kept burning wood from some of the world's most precious #forests, the BBC has found.
Papers obtained by Panorama show #Drax took timber from rare forests in Canada it had claimed were "no go areas".
It comes as the government decides whether to give the firm's Yorkshire site billions more in environmental #subsidies funded by #energy bill payers.
#deforestation #Climate #ClimateChange #AxeDrax #RenewableEnergy #Biomass #Biofuels
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68381160
RichardAshwell OP , 4 months ago Here's a detailed report from biofuelwatch: Logging what’s left - How Drax’s pellet mills are sourcing logs from British Columbia’s rarest Old Growth forests #Forests #Drax #Subsidies #Energy #Deforestation #Climate #ClimateChange #AxeDrax #RenewableEnergy #Biomass #Biofuels https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Drax-in-BC-report.pdf
Here's a detailed report from biofuelwatch:
Logging what’s left - How Drax’s pellet mills are sourcing logs from British Columbia’s rarest Old Growth forests
#Forests #Drax #Subsidies #Energy #Deforestation #Climate #ClimateChange #AxeDrax #RenewableEnergy #Biomass #Biofuels
https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Drax-in-BC-report.pdf
thejapantimes , 5 months ago to random Japan has big plans for biomass as it races to decarbonize the power sector. But experts and activists say it isn't a clean source of energy and comes at the cost of primary forests in places like Canada and Vietnam. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2024/01/14/resources/biomass-canada-japan-imports/?utm_content=bufferf4c91&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #environment #resources #biomass #forests #britishcolumbia #canada #energy #emissions #climatechange
Japan has big plans for biomass as it races to decarbonize the power sector. But experts and activists say it isn't a clean source of energy and comes at the cost of primary forests in places like Canada and Vietnam. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2024/01/14/resources/biomass-canada-japan-imports/?utm_content=bufferf4c91&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #environment #resources #biomass #forests #britishcolumbia #canada #energy #emissions #climatechange