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How tree huggers can save forests with science
2013-11-21 20:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: While hugging a tree sounds relaxing, its harder than you might think - especially when the tree is 20 storeys high and 3 metres wide, its hot as hell, and youre swatting away swarms of sweat bugs. But theres a hard-headed reason behind that tree-hugging work: you cant properly manage what you dont measure. Lack of reliable information about so much of the worlds forests is part of why were still losing forests so fast. Deforestation contributes an estimated 10-15% of all human-caused...
Weak rules threaten U.N. climate plan for forests
2013-11-15 10:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Investments in a U.N. plan to halt deforestation could suffer as U.N. climate talks in Warsaw have failed to agree rules to guarantee the rights of indigenous peoples and to protect local biodiversity, observers said. The programme, called REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), help slow climate change since deforestation accounts for nearly a fifth of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. Forests soak up carbon dioxide as they grow and release it when they burn or...
Forests could face threat from biomass power 'gold rush'
2013-11-09 21:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Britain's new generation of biomass power stations will have to source millions of tonnes of wood from thousands of miles away if they are to operate near to their full capacity, raising questions about the claims made for the sustainability of the new technology. Ministers believe biomass technology could provide as much as 11% of the UK's energy by 2020, something that would help it meet its carbon commitments. The Environment Agency estimates that biomass-fired electricity generation, most of...
Work to save black-owned forests garners praise
2013-11-08 06:25:41| Paper - Topix.net
Joe Leonard, left, the U.S. Department of Agriculture assistant secretary for civil rights, listens as Sam Cook explains a new program to help black landowners keep their forest land and realize value from it during a tour near Ridgeville, S.C. on Thursday.
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Carbon storage recovers faster than plant biodiversity in re-growing tropical forests
2013-11-07 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A new study of re-growing tropical forests has concluded that plant biodiversity takes longer to recover than carbon storage following major disturbances such as clearance for farming. The findings, published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, have important implications for conservation since there are now many re-growing forests in South and Central America. The new study is the first large-scale analysis of the recovery of both plant biodiversity and carbon pools...
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