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Amazon River exhales virtually all carbon taken up by rain forest
2013-05-20 11:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: The Amazon rain forest, popularly known as the lungs of the planet, inhales carbon dioxide as it exudes oxygen. Plants use carbon dioxide from the air to grow parts that eventually fall to the ground to decompose or get washed away by the region's plentiful rainfall. Until recently people believed much of the rain forest's carbon floated down the Amazon River and ended up deep in the ocean. University of Washington research showed a decade ago that rivers exhale huge amounts of carbon dioxide...
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In landmark ruling, Indonesia's indigenous people win right to millions of hectares of forest
2013-05-17 22:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: In a landmark ruling, Indonesia's Constitutional Court has invalidated the Indonesian government's claim to millions of hectares of forest land, potentially giving indigenous and local communities the right to manage their customary forests, reports Mongabay-Indonesia. In a review of a 1999 forestry law, Indonesia's Constitutional Court ruled [PDF - Indonesian] that customary forests should not be classified as "State Forest Areas". The move is significant because Indonesia's central government...
Artificial Forest Nanosystem Mimics Photosynthesis, Researchers Say
2013-05-17 19:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: U.S. scientists have developed what they say is the first integrated nanosystem capable of replicating the process of photosynthesis, a sort of artificial forest that could one day lead to the production of hydrogen that could be used to power fuel cells. Composed of nanowire structures -- including silicon trunks and titanium oxide branches -- the system mimics the role played by chloroplasts in promoting photosynthesis in green plants. By assembling the trees in a dense array, resembling...
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Researchers develop highest-resolution global forest cover dataset to date
2013-05-17 06:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Researchers at the University of Maryland have developed a 30-meter resolution forest cover data set that could boost efforts to track deforestation and forest degradation. The dataset, which is published in the International Journal of Digital Earth, is based on combining data from two satellite sensor systems: 250-meter resolution MOderate-resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) and 30-meter Landsat imagery. The result is a tree cover layer that is more accurate than the industry standard for...
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Traffic at Lee Street and E. Forest Avenue in Des Plaines on Video
2013-05-15 08:21:29| Auto Parts - Topix.net
At the direction of Des Plaines aldermen, public works and engineering workers conducted a traffic volume study at Lee Street and E. Forest Avenue last week.
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