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Forest For The Trees NW brings mural artists from around the world to Portland
2014-08-28 19:20:20| PortlandOnline
Beth Nakamura in The Oregonian, August 22, 2014
Russia warms faster than rest of planet and sees disease, drought, and forest fires as a result
2014-08-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Quartz: When Vladimir Putin declined to support the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty to limit carbon emissions, he famously quipped that higher temperatures might actually benefit Russia since its people would have to spend less on fur coats. Well, he`s getting his wish. Changes in wind and ocean currents caused by global warming shift heat around unevenly, causing some areas to heat up dramatically even as other regions cool. Russia, it turns out, is in the unusually hot category. Between 1976 and 2012, average...
Forest Park Neighborhood Facebook page
2014-08-25 23:31:42| PortlandOnline
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Reason Climate Change Optimism as Forest Strategy Validated
2014-08-19 00:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Finally there's good news on climate change: We have part of the solution, and it's already working. For a long time, experts have theorized that indigenous people in forest communities and their management of these forests are critical to controlling and eventually diminishing carbon emissions in the atmosphere -- and now a new study shows that this is true. The report, called "Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change: How Strengthening Community Forest Rights Mitigates Climate Change" and released...
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One Year After Calif. Rim Fire, Debate Simmers Over Forest Recovery
2014-08-18 23:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Eric Knapp breaks apart a burnt pine cone, looking for seeds - in his line of work this is considered a clue. "Going into an area after a fire, you almost feel like CSI, you know, sleuthing," Knapp says. He is standing in a part of the Stanislaus National Forest that was severely burned by the Rim Fire. Knapp, an ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service, is studying how forests recover. "It's completely dead," he says. "These trees won't be coming back to life." A lot of the forest was charred...
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