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Middle East wars could put worlds food security at risk
2014-09-08 01:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Millions of people could in future face starvation as an indirect result of the violent turmoil in the Middle East which has the highest concentration of wild crop plants needed to produce new food varieties, scientists said. Civil wars raging in Syria and Iraq threaten future food resources because of the crucial role the region plays as the home of the wild plants continually needed to improve the genetic quality of domesticated crops. The region, part of the Fertile Crescent, an ancient...
Worlds biggest carbon trading market?
2014-09-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Living on Earth: China recently announced plans to launch a national carbon trading market, to help reduce its 30% contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions. Host Steve Curwood discusses the importance and ambition of this plan with Barbara Finamore, the Natural Resources Defense Council's Asia Director. Transcript CURWOOD: From the Jennifer and Ted Stanley Studios in Boston and PRI, this is Living on Earth. I'm Steve Curwood. In a couple of weeks, the UN will hold a high-profile, one-day climate summit...
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World's rainforests could be mapped in 3D at high resolution by 2020 for under $250M
2014-09-05 23:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Mapping the world's tropical forests with a fleet of airplanes outfitted with advanced LiDAR could rapidly and accurately assess global forest carbon stocks for a fraction of the cost of a typical Earth observation satellite mission - and far less than field-based sampling - argues a new paper published in Carbon Balance and Management. The commentary, authored by a group of prominent scientists from several institutions, reviews recent progress in applying laser ranging technology (LiDAR) to...
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Out of Fashion Campaign: Preserving Worlds Endangered Forests
2014-09-05 22:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: As the lavish display of Fall Fashion Week gets under way this week in New York City, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) announced Out of Fashion: a campaign promoting forest friendly fabric. Out of Fashion is RAN`s latest major effort to preserve the worlds endangered forests. With this campaign, RAN is bringing attention to a growing global threat to forests, animals and Indigenous communities--a threat that has been hiding in plain sight for years: dissolving pulp. Dissolving pulp is a little-discussed...
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How climate change is affecting world's biggest food company
2014-09-05 17:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Food is a necessity, but it's also a big business. That duality has often pitted consumers against the powerful food corporations that farm, produce, and ultimately feed large swaths of the global population, especially on questions of health and sustainability. But with national diets in this country leading to obesity and diabetes epidemics and global issues around poverty, food waste and climate change, consumers and producers are having new discussions about their relationship to one another....
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