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Brazil touts progress in reducing deforestation, but fails to note recent jump in clearing
2013-06-06 01:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Today in a press release for the U.N.'s World Environment Day, the Brazilian government highlighted a sharp drop in deforestation since 2012. The trouble is, the South American superpower failed to acknowledge what appears to be a sharp rise in Amazon forest loss since last year, reports Greenpeace. In a post on the government's official blog, Brazil congratulated itself for an 84 percent decline in Amazon deforestation between August 2011 and July 2012 relative to 2004, the year that it enacted...
Legal uncertainty cuts progress against Amazon deforestation
2013-06-05 22:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A year after adopting changes to its long-standing forestry policy, Brazil is struggling to implement the new rules, adding to uncertainty that appears to be fueling an increase in clearing of the Amazon rainforest. Regulators, landowners and farmers say they don't know how long it will take to enact the new "forestry code," a dense law that, among other rules, governs the amount of woodland that must be preserved on farms and other productive property. On Wednesday, President Dilma Rousseff...
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Announcement Progress in Nevada Against DOGS!
2013-06-05 19:32:07| FlowerChat Community - by RKFdomains.com
Forum: -News and Announcements- Posted By: Gina B Kellogg Post Time: 5th June 2013 at 01:18 PM
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Building on momentum: Two ways to make progress at the Bonn climate talks
2013-06-05 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Resources Institute: Delegates at April's U.N. climate talks in Bonn, Germany, made some encouraging progress. As negotiators gather again this week, it's important that they build on this progress and take action on two key topics: raising ambition, and establishing core elements of the 2015 international climate action agreement. Indeed, there's an even greater sense of urgency since delegates met for the April intersessional. The world crossed a perilous and alarming threshold, with atmospheric carbon dioxide levels...
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June 3 Crop Progress: Corn Nearly All Planted, Soybeans Over Half Done
2013-06-04 16:33:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Corn growers are seeing the end of corn planting for 2013, and are close to the five-year average. As of June 2, 91% of the overall corn crop has been planted, just 4 points behind the five-year average of 95%. Nearly three-quarters of the planted crops has emerged overall, 8 points behind the 82% five-year average. read more
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