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Salamanders in Forest Park

2016-05-31 21:05:47| PortlandOnline

Improving water quality and habitat for Portland's wildlife and people

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Forest Service reminds tourists why Mendenhall glacier is shrinking

2016-05-30 18:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Alaska Public Media: In a wing of the Mendenhall Glacier Visitors Center a small crowd of onlookers is watching a debate between a man and an employee. The tourist is wearing a floppy hat and red shirt. And hes leaning on a silver tipped cane as he listens waiting for a chance to respond. Kat Pratt is a ranger and interpreter. She was delivering talking points on sea level rise when the man who didnt want to give his name challenged her. He thinks rising temperatures are cyclical. Not caused by people. And...

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Poland Begins Logging Ancient Forest Despite Fierce Protests

2016-05-27 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: Renata Krzysciak-Kosinska The Bialowieza Forest in Poland. Despite intense protests from environmentalists and scientists, Poland began logging the Bialowieza Forest this week, the last remaining fragment of Europes ancient woodlands and a World Heritage site. The forest, covering more than 350,000 acres, is home to the continents largest population of European bison and 20,000 other wildlife species. Polish officials said the logging is to remove spruce trees dead or dying from a bark beetle infestation,...

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Fate of primeval forest in balance as Poland plans logging

2016-05-21 07:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Associated Press: It is the last remaining relic of an ancient forest that stretched for millennia across the lowlands of Europe and Russia, a shadowy, mossy woodland where bison and lynx roam beneath towering oak trees up to 600 years old. Conservationists believe the fate of the Bialowieza Forest, which straddles Poland and Belarus, is more threatened that at any time since the communist era due to a new Polish government plan for extensive logging in parts of the forest. The plan has pitted the government against...

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Forest Park Conservancy

2016-05-17 22:59:26| PortlandOnline

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