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Timber titan: Buyer of MeadWestvaco tracts sees the forests - and the trees
2013-12-23 13:00:02| Paper - Topix.net
A publicly traded company with deep pockets and extensive ties to the Puget Sound area is making a splash in the Charleston region by acquiring gobs of land.
Natural sponges: forests help moderate floods, droughts
2013-12-20 02:54:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A new study adds further evidence for the "sponge effect" of forests. Research published in the journal Water Resources Research by scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) and other institutions finds that forests in Panama help moderate extreme weather events by reducing peak runoff during storms and releasing stored water during droughts. The findings are based on measurements taken during nearly 450 tropical storms in forests and pastures. We measured large differences...
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In Imperiled Forests of Borneo, Rich Tropical Eden Endures
2013-12-19 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: After three decades of studying the worlds great rainforests, including the Amazon and Congo Basin, I thought Id seen the best nature has to offer. But that was before I visited a small pocket of forest in northern Borneo known as the Danum Valley. There, I found a dedicated band of international and Malaysian scientists fighting to save a true biological Eden. In just three days at Danum, I saw a stunning assortment of creatures. Dense rainforests are notoriously difficult places to spot wildlife,...
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Forests Flatline On Trapping Carbon Dioxide With Temperature Rise, Study Shows
2013-12-19 04:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: A four-degree-Celsius rise in the Earths surface temperature could max out the amount of carbon dioxide that forests can trap from the atmosphere, according to new research by a team of European researchers. Rainforests, such as the Amazon, act as natural carbon sinks, using up and storing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air to make food. While humans continue to pump CO2 into the atmosphere, these sinks help maintain a balance by absorbing up to half of the total CO2 emitted globally. The...
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Forests preservation: Pakistan upbeat about World Bank funding
2013-12-15 20:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Business Recorder: As Pakistan pleads its case at Geneva for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD) funds, forest owners, government officials and experts on environment appeared hopeful to preserve forests. The REDD is about getting dollars for the carbon saved in forests by not cutting trees. The tons of carbon emitted from forests and agriculture in Pakistan is massive and for each ton saved the country can get an amount which may be $4-12 billion per annum. ...
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