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Forest Oil selling Texas Panhandle assets for $1B
2013-10-04 05:29:52| Energy - Topix.net
Forest Oil Corp. said Thursday that it will sell Templar Energy LLC its Texas Panhandle oil and gas assets for $1 billion as it works to cut its debt.
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Are Sierra Nevada forest fires getting more severe?
2013-10-02 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: A new scientific study finds that fire severity is not increasing in the forests of California's Sierra Nevada. The findings are contrary to claims by those who have tried to use recent fires in the region to justify more logging in the state's forests. The study, by Dr. Chad Hanson of the John Muir Project, and Dr. Dennis Odion of the Earth Research Institute at University of California, Santa Barbara, was published in the International Journal of Wildland Fire. It found no trend of increasing...
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Forest Fragmentation can lead to 'Ecological Armageddon', Researchers Say
2013-09-28 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Tropical forests are hotspots of biological diversity and currently occupy about 6 percent of earth's land surface, which is less than half of the area that they covered a few decades back. Conservationists claim disappearing forests would lead to extinction of many species of birds and animals. The new study shows that we might have underestimated the effects of fragmented forest cover on animal survival. Large developmental projects such as dams, roads, mines and industries are the main reasons...
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As Rim Fire landscape shows signs of new life, scientists begin to assess forest management
2013-09-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: In the midst of a foreboding canyon scorched bare by the Sierra Nevada's most destructive fire in centuries, tiny ferns unfurl along a spring, black oaks push through charred soil normally blanketed with pine needles and a hawk soars above towering dead and denuded trees. Just four weeks after the most intense day of California's Rim Fire -- when wind and extremely arid conditions created a conflagration that turned 30,000 acres of dense conifers and oaks into a moonscape -- life is returning...
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Forest fragmentation triggers 'ecological Armageddon'
2013-09-26 21:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Species affected by rainforest fragmentation are likely to be wiped out more quickly than previously thought, scientists have warned. A study found that some small mammal species on forest islands, created by a hydroelectric reservoir, in Thailand became extinct in just five years. It also showed that populations in the fragmented habitats were also at risk from another threat - invasive species. The findings have been published in the journal Science. Results showed that almost all small...
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