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  2. Labor and the environment - Wikipedia

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    Logging, Mining and Tourism damage the environment without proper resource management practices. Logging has created such a negative effect on New Zealand in particular, that a 3 year ban had been placed on logging to attempt to preserve the environment and reconstruct it to its original structure. [4] The effects are dated as far back as 1960.

  3. Salvage logging - Wikipedia

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    However, there is little evidence to support such claims, [4] and most evidence supports the view that salvage logging is harmful to forest health and function. [5] As with other logging operations, the harvesting may be either by selection, thinning or clearcutting, and a regeneration plan may be put in place after the logging. Salvage logging ...

  4. Natural risk - Wikipedia

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    They may impact businesses or economies by impacting directly on operations or by negatively affecting society in a way that then creates market risks. The loss of nature can also contribute to systemic geopolitical risk because nature's assets and services, such as clean air, plentiful fresh water, fertile soils, a stable climate, provide ...

  5. Clearcutting - Wikipedia

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    Clearcutting, clearfelling or clearcut logging is a forestry/logging practice in which most or all trees in an area are uniformly cut down. Along with shelterwood and seed tree harvests , it is used by foresters to create certain types of forest ecosystems and to promote select species [ 1 ] that require an abundance of sunlight or grow in ...

  6. Deforestation in Malaysia - Wikipedia

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    In the past 2 decades, Malaysia has moved towards diversifying its economy, but logging still draws in many because of poor regulation and high profit. The most effective way to combat the negative effects of logging would be tighter regulation that still allows high production of palm oil, but in a more sustainable manner. This way, not only ...

  7. Not only a matter of education - HuffPost

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    test, she is judged not to have received a good education from the school. If the school does not make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) on student test scores, the school is considered not providing a good education to its students and is labeled ‘in need of improvement.’ The school then faces serious

  8. Charles Barkley not sure about making move to ESPN: 'I ... - AOL

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    Patrick, who previously worked for ESPN, told Barkley "you're going to be working a lot more than you think you're going to be working." Barkley said he wouldn't be working "like no damn dog" and ...

  9. Deforestation in Papua New Guinea - Wikipedia

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    Satellite images exemplify massive loss of forest cover in New Ireland between 1989 (bottom) and 2000 (top). Deforestation in Papua New Guinea has been extensive and in recent decades from 2001 to 2020, Papua New Guinea (PNG) lost 1.57Mha of tree cover, equivalent to a 3.7% decrease in tree cover since 2000, and 1.15Gt of CO₂e emissions.