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Forest Industry Lauds Another World First For Canada's Innovative Forest Sector
2013-12-27 09:02:42| pulpandpaperonline News Articles
The Forest Products Association ofCanada(FPAC) applauds the announcement of funding for a new strategic partnership to build and operate the first Cellulose Filament (CF) commercial demonstration plant. The announcement was made by the Federal andQuebecgovernments at a Kruger plant in Trois-Rivières today
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SD utility donates land to Forest Service per pact
2013-12-25 20:07:11| Energy - Topix.net
A San Diego utility has donated more than 500 acres of land to the government as part of a pact that allows a new power line to cross federal land.
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Rain Forest Warriors: How Indigenous Tribes Protect Amazon
2013-12-22 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The destruction of the Amazon in Brazil can be seen by satellite: Where logging roads have spread their tentacles and ranchers have expanded their grazing, all is brown. Beginning in the early 1980s, these photos from space lost more and more green, so that by 2004 the destruction seemed unstoppable. Brazil's deforestation rate had reached an alarming 27,000 square kilometers (nearly 17,000 square miles) per year. But stop it did-not everywhere, but at the borders of what appears from space...
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3rd landmark Pennsylvania forest hit by invasive pest, scientists consider possible climate change link
2013-12-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Invasive insects have been found in a third landmark Pennsylvania forest, and scientists are considering a possible link to global warming. The U.S. Forest Service reported this week that the hemlock wooly adelgid has been discovered in the Tionesta forest near the New York border. Experts said the insect is often deadly to hemlocks, and the loss of those trees can lead to a cascade of environmental changes for some wildlife, fish, and plants that need the cool, deep shade that the old growth trees...
UN forest programme reopens Panama, learns lessons
2013-12-15 20:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A U.N. programme aimed at protecting Panama's forests has been reopened after it was suspended earlier this year due to disagreement between indigenous forest communities and the Central American nation's government over how the scheme was being managed. This week the policy board of the United Nations' Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD) Programme said progress had been made towards resolving the conflict in Panama. It approved an extension of its national initiative,...
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