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Latin Americas Forests Need Laws & Much More
2014-06-10 22:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Latin America's parliaments have failed to protect the forests and to guarantee their sustainable use, despite the fact that a number of countries have laws on forests, legislators from the region said at a global summit in the Mexican capital. There are problems in areas such as respect for the rights of local communities, budget allocations for the protection of forests, land tenure guarantees, forest floor carbon ownership, and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from sustainable...
Mountain forests store 40 percent more carbon than expected
2014-06-10 15:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: It's not easy to measure carbon in mountain forest ecosystems. For one thing, climbing into these forests can be difficult, exhausting, and even treacherous. For another, many mountain rainforests are almost constantly blanketed by clouds-hence the term "cloud forest"-making it problematic to measure above-ground carbon storage from the air or satellite. But a new review study in Biogeosciences found that many estimates of carbon storage in montane tropical forests have been largely underestimated....
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Ignoring boreal forests could speed up global warming
2014-06-04 19:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Greenhouse gas emissions from human activity have caused global air and sea surface temperatures to rise approximately 0.8 Celsius (1.4 degrees Fahrenheit) since the beginning of the 20th century, contributing to a plethora of problems worldwide from rising sea levels to desertification. A new study published in Conversation Letters finds that global temperatures may start to increase even faster if more is not done to protect Earths boreal forests. Boreal forests, or taiga, are forests of cold-adapted...
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Intact Amazon forests show possible signs of global warming impact
2014-06-04 04:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Climate change may be taking a hidden toll on intact rainforests in the heart of the Amazon, finds a new study based on 35 years of observations. The research, published in the journal Ecology, focused on the ecological impacts of fragmentation but unexpectedly found changes in the control forests. These shifts, which included faster growth and death rates of trees, increased biomass accumulation, and proliferation in vines, may be linked to rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere,...
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Even more carbon emitted tropical forests
2014-05-26 23:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Earth Times: A journal has an interesting article to challenge current climate change theory and global warming solutions in - Global Change Biology. The underestimate of carbon loss arises from selective logging and set fires which can be grouped together as hidden emissions. The hidden nature of tropical deforestation methodology is part of the main problem too. Satellite assessments are unable to view such slow change, but these depredations cause 40% of Brazilian CO2 emissions from deforestation. The Amazon...
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