je.st
news
Tag: forests
US Forest Service releases findings on the effects of drought for forests, rangelands
2016-02-02 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The U.S. Forest Service has released a new report, Effects of Drought on Forests and Rangelands in the United States: A Comprehensive Science Synthesis, that provides a national assessment of peer-reviewed scientific research on the impacts of drought on U.S. forests and rangelands. This report will help the Forest Service better manage forests and grasslands impacted by climate change. "Our forests and rangelands are national treasures, and because they are threatened, we are threatened," said...
Tags: service
effects
releases
forest
Australia bushfires raze ancient World Heritage-listed forests
2016-01-29 19:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: World Heritage-listed forests whose origins pre-date the age of the dinosaurs are being destroyed by raging Australian bushfires, with conservationists increasingly fearful they could be lost forever. Firefighters in Tasmania -- a state south of the mainland known for its cooler temperatures -- have been battling bushfires for 18 days, with 95,000 hectares (234,750 acres) of land burnt so far, authorities said Friday. While no properties have been destroyed and no one hurt in the infernos --...
Tags: world
australia
ancient
forests
World heritage forests burn as global tragedy unfolds in Tasmania
2016-01-27 04:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A global tragedy is unfolding in Tasmania. World heritage forests are burning; 1,000-year-old trees and the hoary peat beneath are reduced to char. Fires have already taken stands of king billy and pencil pine the last remaining fragments of an ecosystem that once spread across the supercontinent of Gondwana. Pockets of Australias only winter deciduous tree, the beloved nothofagus whose direct kin shade the sides of the South American Andes are now just a wind change away from eternity....
Tags: world
global
heritage
burn
Carbon Storage Shortage? Tropical Forests Are Storing Less Greenhouse Gas Than Thought
2016-01-06 02:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: The world's tropical forests are storing less carbon than has previously been thought, scientists found in a recent study. It's important for us to have pretty solid estimates of carbon storage, as world leaders try to work out mitigation agreements, such as those at the recent United Nations Climate Change talks in Paris. As they do that, they need to know how much deforestation is affecting each region. In these new research findings, the researchers talk about forests where trees have been...
Tags: than
thought
storage
gas
America's family forests: Our climate change solution
2015-12-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Last weekend, 195 nations reached a landmark agreement that will commit the world to limiting its greenhouse gas emissions. Throughout the two weeks of negotiations, we saw significant discussion about how investing in forests can be a low cost climate solution. Unfortunately, these discussions often focused on international forests, and assumed that U.S. forests' ability to sequester carbon will remain the same without any special action. That's why today, the American Forest Foundation and The...
Tags: family
change
solution
climate
Sites : [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] next »