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Africas DRC Could Lose Vast Forests
2015-07-06 17:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: If measures proposed by the Democratic Republic of Congo to protect its tropical forests are not enacted, it could result in a significant uptick in the nation's deforestation rate, according to a recent study. According to the paper, published by the journal PLOS ONE, forests blanket 1.1 million square kilometers (425,000 square miles) of the DRC and contain an estimated 22 billion metric tons of carbon. It's the second-largest forest carbon stock on the planet. The DRC has proposed measures...
Into great unknown: The ability of global forests to store carbon is at risk
2015-06-30 19:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Though scientists are striving hard to discover how the world's forests will respond to climate change whether they will tip from being carbon sinks to being carbon sources much remains clouded in mystery. Photo credit: Rhett Butler. The world's tropical and subtropical forests absorb 1.1 trillion kg. (120 billion tons) of carbon from the atmosphere every year, storing it in soil and living and dead biomass, according to USDA Forest Service researcher John Parrotta. Amazonian forests alone...
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Do we need to move 'beyond certification' to save forests?
2015-06-25 19:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Over the past two years dozens of companies have established "zero-deforestation" or "deforestation-free" policies for the commodities they source, trade, and produce. The pace of adoption has been staggeringly fast for a business that have been historically slow-moving relative to other industries. Some sectors, like the Indonesian palm oil industry and the Brazilian soy industry, even appear to be nearing a critical mass where the majority of international buyers and traders are now bound by such...
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Looking to beat back encroaching desert, Chile preserves forests
2015-06-19 20:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: As part of efforts to counteract desertification and erosion brought about by climate change, Chile will invest $250 million to plant vast tracks of native forest, the national forestry agency said on Friday. Home to the Atacama desert, the world's driest, Chile will plant trees on 100,000 hectares. The forestry agency Conaf will also incorporate a similar amount of forest in the 13 million hectares it already manages as part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. "Some $1.5...
Seedy Business in Portland's Forests!
2015-06-09 23:36:38| PortlandOnline
The Watershed Revegetation Program is experimenting with native plant seeds.
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