Read more logging stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/21637/logging.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:09:57 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/70155/kick-in-the-butt-soft-toilet-paper-battle-gets-messy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe environmental campaign against soft toilet paper is heating up, as manufacturers keep pushing the fluff factor—"Quilted Northern Ultra Plush is the first big brand to go three-ply and three-adjective," the Washington Post notes—and environmentalists want the industry to go all recycled. The softer rolls US consumers prefer...http://www.newser.com/story/70155/kick-in-the-butt-soft-toilet-paper-battle-gets-messy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 24 Sep 2009 11:29:43 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62292/amazon-indians-win-repeal-of-land-grab-laws.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPeru's Congress has revoked two laws that led to bloody clashes between police and indigenous protesters, CNN reports. Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favor of ditching the laws that opened up the country's Amazon region to mining, logging, and oil companies. Dozens of people died earlier this month when police moved...http://www.newser.com/story/62292/amazon-indians-win-repeal-of-land-grab-laws.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 19 Jun 2009 5:05:43 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60632/calif-branches-into-forests-to-fight-climate-change.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe California government is preparing to enter into the "forest bank" business in a bid to save woodlands and battle carbon pollution and climate change, reports the Los Angeles Times. The state is expected to roll out a California "cabon market" that may be expanded elsewhere in the West if...http://www.newser.com/story/60632/calif-branches-into-forests-to-fight-climate-change.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 01 Jun 2009 3:10:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/47108/the-best-and-worst-jobs-in-america.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHow desirable is your daily grind? A new study aims to answer that question with a list ranking the best and worst jobs according to five factors: “environment, income, employment outlook, physical demands, and stress,” the Wall Street Journal reports. In the end, the CareerCast list suggests, nerds rule. Best...http://www.newser.com/story/47108/the-best-and-worst-jobs-in-america.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 06 Jan 2009 14:55:49 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/34879/doom-looms-for-spotted-owl.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe outlook appears bleak for America's most controversial bird, reports the Seattle Times . Despite logging bans in huge swathes of old-growth forests initiated 14 years ago to protect the northern spotted owl, researchers have discovered its numbers have dropped by nearly half. The decline is blamed on pre-1994 habitat loss...http://www.newser.com/story/34879/doom-looms-for-spotted-owl.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 14 Aug 2008 3:01:55 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/34683/federal-changes-threaten-endangered-species-critics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCritics are raising an alarm over planned White House changes to the Endangered Species Act, reports the Oregonian . The modifications would give federal agencies such as the US Forest Service more leeway to decide whether activities such as logging would harm endangered species—and such determinations would no longer be...http://www.newser.com/story/34683/federal-changes-threaten-endangered-species-critics.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 12 Aug 2008 3:21:46 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/30454/half-of-amazon-could-be-gone-in-20-years.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAn "unprecedented" combination of ills is threatening the Amazon, and if nothing is done to ease the pressure on the world’s largest rainforest, more than half of it could be gone or withered in 20 years, Rhett Butler writes for Yale Environment 360 . After a three-year decline, forest clearing doubled...http://www.newser.com/story/30454/half-of-amazon-could-be-gone-in-20-years.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 19 Jun 2008 18:58:46 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/22146/brazil-targets-amazon-loggers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBrazil is launching a new crackdown against the loggers who are destroying the Amazon rainforest at alarming rates, the Washington Post reports. After several years of decline, deforestation is surging as cattle ranchers clear land and loggers cut down trees for charcoal to fuel steel mills abroad. But Brazil will...http://www.newser.com/story/22146/brazil-targets-amazon-loggers.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 21 Mar 2008 9:33:30 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/17438/greenies-aim-to-stop-bushs-alaska-plan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagGreenies are hoping to stop President Bush from opening Alaskan woodland to logging and road construction, the Washington Post reports. Bush unveiled plans yesterday to let developers tackle 2.4 million acres of Alaska's Tongass National Forest, the nation's largest national woodland. But angry environmentalists and the Alaska Forest Association...http://www.newser.com/story/17438/greenies-aim-to-stop-bushs-alaska-plan.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 26 Jan 2008 17:32:22 CST