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This guy is saving forests using cloning
2013-07-08 20:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Cloning: a great idea for Ryan Gosling, but old-growth trees? American tree conservationist David Milarch thinks that since 1,000-year-old British super-trees have withstood climate change and thousands of carved initials, they can take a little tampering with their genes. He and his nonprofit, Archangel, are on a $3 million mission to reproduce the trees and give away the cloned babies. Pop quiz. Super-trees are super because ... A) They watch over you and protect you while you sleep (but...
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Protecting Forests and Growing REDD+
2013-07-04 13:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Center for Global Development: My guest this week is Frances Seymour, our newest senior fellow at the Center and one of the world's top authorities on the complex issues at the intersection of tropical forests, development and climate change. Before joining CGD, Frances was for six years director general of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), a nonprofit, global organization based in Indonesia that that is one of 15 research centers affiliated with the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research...
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Big Data Goes Green: How Data Analytics Is Saving the Worlds Forests
2013-07-04 12:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Silicon ANGLE: Big Datas going mainstream and at the same time its rewriting the rules of forestry management. Tree farmers, logging companies, plantations and conservation groups tasked with managing forestry assets can use Big Data analytics to dig up all kinds of insights that can help them achieve their goals of sustainability. Predictive modeling is nothing new to the forestry industry. For years, its been used to forecast the impact of controlled burns, harvests and other forest management strategies....
IKEA To Partner With American Forests Disaster ReLeaf To Restore Asbury Park's Urban Forest
2013-07-03 09:00:00| pollutiononline News Articles
IKEA and American Forests Disaster ReLeaf are partnering this month to help restore the urban forest in Asbury Park, N.J., that was ravaged by Hurricane Sandy
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Indonesia: Rights for us mean forests for all
2013-06-30 06:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jakarta Post: Though one of us lives in Central America and the other in Indonesia -- nearly half the Earths circumference away from each other -- we have the same urgent message for the decision makers who are gathered in Indonesia this week to discuss how best to slow climate change. For hundreds of years, we -- the indigenous peoples of the tropical regions of Africa, Asia and Latin America -- have protected the forests that are now of such great interest in the battle against the changing climate. We...
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