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How Fire, Once a Friend of Forests, Became a Destroyer
2015-11-22 13:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: This summer, eye-watering smoke hung over much of the western United States, and flames threatened homes, towns, and even the giant sequoias of Kings Canyon National Park. By mid-November, wildfires had burned 9.8 million acres across the country, and 2015 was on track to become the biggest fire year in at least a decade. Rising temperatures, drought, and dense forests created by decades of fire suppression are contributing to larger, faster-moving wildfires. And as more people move into the woods,...
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The slow collapse of the worlds forests on The Science Show
2015-11-22 08:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The Earth is one degree warmer than in pre-industrial times. Reese Halter describes how the slow collapse of world forests is underway and evident now.
Shrinking Amazon forests may lose thousands of trees species
2015-11-20 20:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A first-of-its-kind examination of the Amazon's trees found that as many as half the species may be threatened with extinction or heading that way because of massive deforestation. Among the more than 5,000 tree species in deep trouble: the ones that produce Brazil nuts and mahogany. An international team of 158 scientists found that depending on the degree to which deforestation comes under control in the next 35 years, between 36 and 57 percent of the 16,000 tree species in the tropical rainforest...
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Fires rapidly claim more forests and peatland in Arctic
2015-11-20 18:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: David and Kristen Olesen, their two daughters, and 44 sled dogs lived at a homestead at the edge of the boreal forest on a sandy peninsula at a spot where the Hoarfrost River meets the Great Slave Lake near the Arctic Circle. In the wintertime, fog rises off the river and coats spruces in moisture that crystallizes to ice in a phenomenon called "hoarfrost." Their home was 25 miles from the closest settlement of Reliance. That summer afternoon, Kristen watched a rabbit tear out of the woods. A...
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Paris climate pact could leave forests vulnerable
2015-11-13 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Efforts to foster forests and slow deforestation, which is one of the leading causes of global warming, are largely being glossed over by most nations as they prepare for a historic round of climate negotiations. It remains unclear whether any agreement struck during the upcoming U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change session, which begins in Paris at the end of this month, will explicitly mention forestry. But forestry and farming are "implicitly' going to play roles in a climate pact "no...
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