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Rocky Mountain Forests Vanishing as Planet Heats Up
2014-09-10 23:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Climate change could kill up to 90 percent of the forests covering the Rocky Mountains, warned the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists today in a new study based in part on projections made by the U.S. Forest Service. Extreme heat and drought, more and larger wildfires over a longer fire season, and beetle infestations have killed tens of millions of trees in the Rocky Mountains over the past 15 years, according to the study, "Rocky Mountain Forests at Risk." Large wildfires, such as the...
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Climate change accelerating death Western forests
2014-09-10 23:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: The iconic pine and aspen forests of the Rocky Mountains are dying off at an alarming rate thanks to conditions exacerbated by climate change - drought, insect infestations and wildfires - a new report says. Colorado alone could lose 45% of its aspen stands over the next 45 years, says the report released Thursday by the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization. Pine bark beetles alone have killed 46 million acres of trees across the west, an area nearly the size...
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Report: Climate change transforming Rocky Mountain forests
2014-09-10 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Denver Channel: Climate change is forever altering forests in the Rocky Mountain region with wildfires, insects and unexplained tree die-off, according to a new report. Published Wednesday by the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization, the report is titled "Rocky Mountain Forests at Risk." It finds that climate changes are driving the "triple assault" that is threatening the landscapes of Rocky Mountain, Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks. Temperatures in the region have...
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How conversion of forests to cropland affects climate
2014-09-09 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The conversion of forests into cropland worldwide has triggered an atmospheric change that, while seldom considered in climate models, has had a net cooling effect on global temperatures, according to a new Yale study. Writing in the journal Nature Climate Change, Professor Nadine Unger of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) reports that large-scale forest losses during the last 150 years have reduced global emissions of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs), which...
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Out of Fashion Campaign: Preserving Worlds Endangered Forests
2014-09-05 22:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: As the lavish display of Fall Fashion Week gets under way this week in New York City, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) announced Out of Fashion: a campaign promoting forest friendly fabric. Out of Fashion is RAN`s latest major effort to preserve the worlds endangered forests. With this campaign, RAN is bringing attention to a growing global threat to forests, animals and Indigenous communities--a threat that has been hiding in plain sight for years: dissolving pulp. Dissolving pulp is a little-discussed...
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