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Tropical Forests May Inhale Third of Fossil Fuel Emissions
2014-12-31 20:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Plant a tree. Preserve a forest. Save the Earth from climate change? It's of course much more complicated than that, and slowing the tide of climate change will take a lot more than saving trees from chainsaws. But a new study highlights how critical forests may be, especially in the tropics, in absorbing human-caused carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and mitigating climate change. A stream through a tropical forest. Studies show tropical forests may become more efficient at storing carbon as...
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We can feed the world without chopping down more forests
2014-12-08 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Maybe this is obvious, but expanding our agricultural footprint to feed the growing population - cutting down forests, plowing prairies - is a really bad idea. Whats less obvious, and more interesting/troubling, is that farmland expansion is so harmful on so many levels that its worth doing just about anything that helps us avoid opening up new land - even things that have their own environmental costs. Ive been reading back through the papers of David Tilman, an ecologist at the University...
Better policy, finance needed to balance forests & farming - experts
2014-12-07 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Initiatives balancing protection for forests and other natural resources with the interests of farmers need more political and financial support if they are to advance the fight against climate change, experts said on Saturday. A "landscapes approach" that aims to help people think more broadly about how they use ecosystems to boost food security and incomes without harming the planet has gained traction in recent years among researchers and development agencies. But more effort is required...
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Mapping Rain Forests to Fight Climate Change
2014-12-06 12:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Newsweek: Almost a century ago, Russian botanist N.I. Vavilov was traveling the world in search of new species when he identified why equatorial rain forests are so critical to the Earths future: Theyre the source-pool for 90 percent of the planets biodiversity. Rain forests have been the focus of global conservation efforts ever since. Today, as climate negotiators convene for the United Nations Climate Summit 2014 in Lima, Perua country that is dead-center in that genetically rich belt of land around...
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A landmark year for forests
2014-12-05 07:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Glenn Hurowitz is the head of the Forest Heroes campaign, an effort to shift agricultural expansion away from forests and peatlands. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. About one year ago today, I was pretty down. It was Thanksgiving night, and the Forest Heroes campaign, which I chair, had been running a big global campaign to persuade Wilmar International, Asias largest agribusiness company, to eliminate deforestation and human rights abuse throughout its enormous supply chain....
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