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Could fungi help pine forests withstand climate change?
2016-03-23 12:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Arthur Conan Doyle's famous literary detective Sherlock Holmes once noted that "the little things are infinitely the most important." It's a belief that investigators at the University of Alberta obviously share. Whether they're seeking to understand the tiniest forms of life, taking small steps toward major breakthroughs or influencing students in subtle but profound ways, U of A researchers and educators are proving that little things can make a big impact. The lodgepole pine is one of the most...
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Forests Help Quench Urban Thirst
2016-03-21 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The next time you turn on the tap to fill the kettle, you might want to spare a thought for the forest that made it possible. It may be a hundred kilometres away or more from where you are sitting, but the chances are that you owe your cup of tea, in part at least, to the trees that helped to capture the water, and to filter it on its long journey to you the consumer. The importance of forests to the water cycle cannot be overstated. They slow down the flow of water, percolating it gently through...
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Corruption Threat to Pacific Island Forests
2016-03-21 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: The vast rainforests of Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean are crucial for environmental sustainability, survival of indigenous peoples and the wider goal of containing climate change. But forest degradation, driven primarily by excessive commercial logging, most of which is illegal, is a perpetual threat. PNG is now the world's top exporter of tropical timber, estimated at 3.8 million cubic metres in 2014. But an estimated 90 per cent of the formal trade...
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10 facts about forests for International Forest Day
2016-03-21 07:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Today is International Forest Day, which was launched by the United Nations March 21, 2012 to promote the importance of forests and trees. In recognition of the designation, below are ten facts about forests. Forests cover around 4 billion hectares or 30 percent of Earths land surface Forests cover about four billion four billion hectares (16 million square miles). That represents about 30 percent of Earths land surface or eight percent of its total surface area. Ten countries hold about two-thirds...
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China's forests recovering at the expense of other nations, study says
2016-03-18 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: After taking a beating from decades of logging, China's forests have begun to regenerate, but the problem of deforestation may have shifted to other nations exporting wood to the world's most populous country, researchers said on Friday. Between 2000 and 2010, about 1.2 percent of China's territory - an area larger than Portugal - experienced a significant net gain in tree cover, said the study from researchers at Michigan State University in the United States. Instead of cutting down its own...
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