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Europes Forests Suffer Effects of Climate Change
2014-08-16 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Climate change is here, it's happening now, and for the last few decades it has been demonstrably bad news for many of Europe's forests. A report published in the journal Nature Climate Change shows that damage from wind, bark beetles, and wildfires has increased significantly in Europe's forests in recent years. An international team of researchers say in a report from the European Forest Institute that climate change is altering the environment, and it is long-lived ecosystems like forests...
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Nothing else left to log: is eco-certified logging stripping Russia last old growth forests?
2014-08-15 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Russias trees fuel our increasing demand for wood-based products. The countrys vast forests, which cover over 800 million hectares or almost half its land area, are a major source of wood for global timber, paper and pulp industries. They are also home to some of the worlds most threatened wildlife species such as Siberian tigers and Amur leopards, as well as others like bears and lynx, and act as major carbon sinks. Among Russias forested lands lie intact forest landscapes (or IFLs). These...
Forests for the future: Kenya's carbon credit scheme
2014-08-10 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: When 61-year old Mercy Joshua was young, the vast forests of southeastern Kenya teemed with wildlife, but decades of unchecked deforestation by locals have devastated the land. She watched forests dwindle and rivers dry up across her homeland of Kasigau -- a semi-arid savanna grassland dotted with shrubs, woodland and small rugged hills -- as people cut down the trees to scratch a living by selling them for firewood. But now, after decades of degradation, a local project has found a way to...
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We Are Making Ebola Outbreaks Worse by Cutting Down Forests
2014-08-09 13:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: In a relentless sweep across Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, the largest outbreak of Ebola, a virus that causes dramatic internal bleeding and often a hasty death, has now claimed 467 lives, from 759 infections, since February this year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). With victims identified across more than 60 different locations, there's now a very real risk the outbreak will spread to even more countries, says Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which calls the epidemic...
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Climate Change Damages Europes Forests
2014-08-07 02:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Climate change is here, its happening now, and for the last few decades it has been demonstrably bad news for many of Europes forests. An international team of researchers say in a report from the European Forest Institute that climate change is altering the environment, and it is long-lived ecosystems like forests that are particularly vulnerable to the comparatively rapid changes occurring in the climate system. The report, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, shows that damage...
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