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Why climate change pushing Earth boreal forests tipping point
2015-08-22 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Monitor: International policy makers should set their sights on the protection of boreal forests, international forestry experts argued this week in an article published Thursday in the journal Science. The article was part of a special issue on forests released before the World Forestry Congress is held in September. Boreal forests have the potential to hit a tipping point this century, said Anatoly Shvidenko, a researcher scholar with the Ecosystems Services and Management Program at Austria's International...
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Haze chokehold spurring efforts to save Indonesias forests
2015-08-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: This is the first part in a two-part series on fires in Indonesia and what`s being done to stop them. The annual burning of Indonesian rainforests represents an example of the increasing clouding of regional-global divides when it comes to environmental problems. Many Southeast Asians are wondering if they will have to withstand another blanket of haze from rainforest fires as Indonesia enters its annual dry season. Signs of an impending El Nino weather pattern mean the countrys traditional...
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Severe Droughts Affect Forests And CO2 Storage for Years, Study Shows
2015-07-31 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Severe drought can affect a forest's growth for up to four years, a period during which it is less effective at removing carbon from the atmosphere, a new study reports in the journal Science. Standard climate models have assumed that forests and other vegetation bounce back quickly from extreme drought, but that assumption is far off the mark, the researchers say. Looking at data from more than 1,300 forest sites dating back to 1948, they found that living trees took an average of two to four years...
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Africa: Forests May Be Our Last Chance to Slow Climate Change
2015-07-27 09:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: Deforestation is now the second leading cause of global climate change. Debates on this topic often centre on the Amazon, given the high-profile destruction of its forest biodiversity. However, a troubling rise in deforestation in Central Africa - home to the world's second largest tropical forest - has received surprisingly little attention. Two-thirds of Africa's remaining forests are located in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). These forests span 1.7 million km, which is equivalent to...
Family of 5 Primary Forests: A Snapshot What Remains
2015-07-23 20:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Heres a fact that should be disturbing to anyone concerned about our imperiled forests: The pace of deforestation has accelerated so rapidly over the past 200 years that today our planet harbors only one-quarter of its original old-growth forest--i.e., forest that has never been logged or cleared. Using detailed satellite imagery and geographic information system technology, scientists have produced moment-in-time snapshots of these remaining forested regions. The pictures are not pretty....
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