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Forests: time to reclaim the 'wastelands'?
2014-02-14 18:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Earlier this month, the UN open working group on the sustainable development goals (SDGs) proposed a framework to replace the millennium development goals (MDGs), which expire in 2015. The SDGs are meant to guide global action on health, poverty, hunger, climate and other development challenges. The key component of the SDGs, as its name indicates, is to help the world deliver food, health and empowerment for all sustainably, without exceeding the Earth's resource limits or contributing to climate...
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Incentivizing keeping primary forests intact
2014-02-07 11:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Much of Dr. Corey Bradshaw's work has a singular aim: to keep primary habitats and functioning ecosystems intact. According to Bradshaw, the existing system of carbon trading rules needs to be changed so that primary forests are given a higher value than other forms of land use. "Nothing," Bradshaw told mongabay.com "can replace primary vegetation, both in terms of biodiversity value and other ecosystem services." He adds that, "while certainly not 'innovative' in terms of concepts, there has...
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Oh rot: Climate change could topple Northwests Douglas fir forests
2014-01-31 20:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Root-rotting fungi have lived among the Douglas firs of the Pacific Northwest for thousands of years - perhaps since the last ice age. They`re an invisible part of the sweeping forest scenery, ready to fell a sick tree or feast on a dead one. But, in case you haven`t noticed, things have been going a tad crazy with the environment lately. Douglas firs in the Pacific Northwest have been dying, costing the timber industry millions of dollars a year. Some have been killed by beetle attacks; others...
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NASA data reveals impact of cyclones on forests in Vietnam, Madagascar
2014-01-30 08:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Forest disturbance in Madagascar and Vietnam increased significantly in the aftermath of cyclones that hit the countries last year, according to a forest tracking tool developed by a team of NASA researchers. NASA's Quarterly Indicator of Cover Change (QUICC), a MODIS satellite-based product that underpins Mongabay.com's Global Forest Disturbance Alert System (GloF-DAS), detected substantial woodland disturbance in the landfall path of Typhoon Haiyan in central Vietnam and Cyclone Haruna in the...
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Next best thing: how well do secondary forests preserve biodiversity?
2014-01-23 18:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Secondary forests, which are areas that were previously cleared of old-growth cover, now comprise the majority of the forested areas in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere. A heavily debated issue is to what extent secondary forests are able to contribute to the preservation of biodiversity. In an article published in PLOS ONE, a group of researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute led by Michiel van Breugel evaluated the biodiversity preservation potential of secondary forests....
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