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United Kingdom: Labour promises to protect public forests
2015-02-02 07:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Labour will pitch itself as the party that will protect nature and the British countryside this week, with a promise to prevent publicly owned forests from being sold. In a speech at an RSPB nature reserve on Tuesday, shadow environment secretary Maria Eagle is expected to attack the coalition for overseeing a decline in the UKs natural environment and to pledge to give more people access to green space. Former Tory environment secretary, Caroline Spelman, was forced into a u-turn over plans...
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Obama's climate plan threatens US forests
2015-01-30 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Politico: President Obama's signature environmental initiative, his Clean Power Plan, is designed to fight climate change and crack down on America's carbon-emitting power plants. But behind the scenes, a dispute is raging over obscure language that could promote the rapid destruction of America's carbon-storing forests. This highly technical but consequential fight over the Environmental Protection Agency's approach to "bioenergy'--energy derived from trees, crops, or other plants--has gotten lost in the...
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Gov. Tom Wolf Plans to Ban New Fracking in Pennsylvania Parks, Forests
2015-01-29 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Gov. Tom Wolf plans to sign an executive order ending a short-lived effort by his predecessor to expand the extraction of natural gas from rock buried deep below Pennsylvania's state parks and forests, his office said Wednesday. Following through on a campaign pledge, Wolf will sign the order restoring a moratorium on new drilling leases involving public lands on Thursday at Benjamin Rush State Park in northeast Philadelphia. It will supersede an order that Republican Gov. Tom Corbett signed...
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Changing California forests may help us prepare for the future
2015-01-21 03:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A new study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examines how Californias forests have changed since the 1930s--and, according to its authors, can help us understand how forests will respond to the changing global climate in the future. Entitled Twentieth-century shifts in forest structure in California: Denser forests, smaller trees, and increased dominance of oaks, the study looked at tree abundance and size across the state of California and in several different...
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Calif Forests: Where Have All the Big Trees Gone?
2015-01-20 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: California has lost half its big trees since the 1930s, according to a study to be published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences-and climate change seems to be a major factor. The number of trees larger than two feet in diameter has declined by 50 percent on more than 46,000 square miles of California forests, the new study finds. No area was immune, from the foggy northern coast to the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the San Gabriels above Los Angeles. In the Sierra high...
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