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Ancient forests stabilized Earths CO2 and climate
2014-01-23 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: UK researchers have identified a biological mechanism that could explain how the Earths atmospheric carbon dioxide and climate were stabilised over the past 24 million years. When CO2 levels became too low for plants to grow properly, forests appear to have kept the climate in check by slowing down the removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The results are now published in Biogeosciences, an open access journal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). As CO2 concentrations in...
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Importance of Old Growth Forests: Carbon Capture Potential Grows With Age
2014-01-17 17:38:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: We know that forests are biodiversity-rich, and we know they provide us with essential ecosystem services, such as regulating water flows and influencing weather patterns. One ecosystem service often discussed these days is the role of forests in helping regulate the amount of the greenhouse gas--carbon dioxide (CO2)--in the atmosphere. A new analysis in Nature, one of the top scientific journals, demonstrates that big, mature trees play an important part in this role. Beyond providing essential...
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Louisiana forests being sacrificed to fuel Europe's biomass boom
2014-01-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: The smell of freshly cut wood wafting from a dirt lot along an industrial stretch of road near the state capital might not conjure up an image of green energy, but some say this is the future of sustainability. The smell comes from two white plastic domes rising high along the Mississippi River. Stored inside those domes are millions of wood pellets, which started as trees in the surrounding 50- to 75-mile area, and were converted to easily shippable and burnable material at mammoth factories...
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Christie fails muscle gas pipeline through NJ's protected forests
2014-01-11 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: The George Washington Bridge and the Pinelands are at opposite ends of New Jersey almost in different universes. One is a double-decker of steel and cable, groaning with bumper-to-bumper traffic. The other is a delicate, protected ecosystem, the intersection of pristine aquifers and seven counties of conifers. One is the bailiwick of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the other is the fief of the New Jersey Pinelands Commission. Both these agencies are under the influence of Governor...
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Natural Gas Boom Cuts Into Pennsylvania's State Forests
2014-01-09 23:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: On the side of a mountain road in Pennsylvania's Tiadaghton State Forest, I'm trying to avoid a steady stream of heavy truck traffic. Acres of freshly cut tree stumps stretch out in front of me. Kevin Heatley lives in the area and has come to these woods for years to hike. He's an ecologist by trade and he's concerned about what he's seeing. "Everything from the noise and the traffic to the lighting, to the pad placements, to the pipeline construction to the road expansion - this is all industrial...
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