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Climate: Amazon forest losing carbon-storing capacity

2015-03-19 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: The Amazonian rainforest has lost much of its ability to absorb climate-altering greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, scientists reported on Wednesday. In the 1990s, the great forest was able to store as much as two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) each year, they said. Now, though, the uptake has halved, and for the first time is being outstripped by fossil-fuel emissions from Latin America. The evidence, reported in the journal Nature, comes from a 30-year survey that brought together...

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Mature forest needed to protect species climate change

2015-03-08 06:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Earth Times: ENSO, otherwise known as the El Nio Southern Oscillation, is one of the most startling examples of climate change. As we have to adjust everywhere to such changes in our everyday concerns, it is useful that research has discovered connections between an animal?s habitat and climate change. Jared D. Wolfe, C. John Ralph of the Klamath Bird Observatory and the US Forest Service, with Pablo Elizondo of the Costa Rican Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio) studied the "Changes in the apparent...

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Palm oil firms in Peru plan to clear 23,000 hectares of primary forest

2015-03-07 22:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Companies in Peru are planning to clear more than 23,000 hectares of primary rainforest in the northern Amazon in order to cultivate oil palm, according to NGOs. Operations on two plantations called Maniti and Santa Cecilia which would involve clearing more than 9,300 hectares of primary forest could start imminently following a recent government decision. Weve done an extensive analysis of satellite images of the project area and conclude that 84.6% of Maniti and Santa Cecilia is primary...

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Zipline Tour Through the Amazon Forest on Google Street View

2015-03-02 19:02:38| PC Magazine Software Product Guide

The Web giant partnered with the Amazonas Sustainable Foundation, a local nonprofit, to add the first zipline tour to the Google Maps Street View Collection.

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