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Californias cap-and-trade program pays loggers clearcut old-growth forests
2014-04-03 17:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Timber industry lobbyists clinched a nice little victory in Sacramento four years ago, and now forests and the climate are paying the price. Under Californias cap-and-trade program, which began in late 2012, timber companies can earn carbon credits by felling forests and chopping down old-growth trees and then replanting the razed earth with younger trees. Which they will eventually chop down, again, after they have grown. The idea was that the younger trees would suck up a lot of carbon dioxide...
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Climate change could wipe out wildlife and is major risk to UK forests
2014-03-30 01:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Climate change poses a major risk to forests all over the world, threatening widespread tree deaths that could wipe out wildlife, exacerbate global warming and hurt the economy, a major new UN report will warn today. According to a leaked final draft of the latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, tree mortality and associated forest dieback will become apparent in many regions sooner than previously anticipated. Forest dieback is a major environmental risk with potentially...
Fiji: Critical role of forests
2014-03-28 15:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Fiji Times: FORESTS play a critical role in climate change. This is the message rendered by Inoke Ratukalou, the director of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community's (SPC) Land Resources Division, marking International Day of Forests. He said the event, which celebrated and raised awareness of the importance of all types of forests as well as trees outside forests, had particular importance for the Pacific region with deforestation contributing 12 per cent to 18 per cent of the world's carbon emissions....
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Leftover trees enhance the biodiversity of new forests
2014-03-18 21:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Trees left standing after deforestation have a discernible impact on the composition of local biodiversity in secondary growth forests, according to a new study published in PLOS ONE. Researchers working on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica discovered that remnant trees could affect species composition of regenerated forests up to 20 years after being logged. When land that was once forest is abandoned after being cleared for timber or agricultural purposes, what emerges is known as a second-growth...
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Planting forests may ease Beijing pollution crisis
2014-03-18 12:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Planting an army of trees in the Chinese capital Beijing could help combat the citys severe air pollution crisis, but such a strategy should not be seen as an easy way out, a scientist has said. Writing for the Conversation, Jun Yang, an associate professor at Tsinghua University`s Centre for Earth System Science, says that Beijing has been affected as much as the next city by polluted air. The capital recently introduced a new pollution-monitoring plan in response to growing concern over...
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