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Indonesia: Environmental Activism at its Best: Greenpeace's Push to Stop the Pulping of Rain Forests
2013-02-08 18:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: There`s much about 20th-century-style environmentalism that doesn`t work in this era. Demonizing Big Coal or Big Oil in climate campaigns gives a pass to those of us filling up our gas tanks or relying on electricity at home. But there are plenty of situations where in-your-face activism has a role. A case in point has been environmental campaigns against companies pressing into Asia`s last rain forest frontiers. A headline is sometimes enough to convey a big development, and that was the case...
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Global warming bringing big changes to U.S. forests
2013-02-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Big changes are in store for the nation`s forests as global warming increases wildfires and insect infestations, and generates more frequent floods and droughts, the U.S. Department of Agriculture warns in a report released this week. The compilation of more than 1,000 scientific studies is part of the National Climate Assessment and will serve as a roadmap for managing national forests across the country in coming years. It says the area burned by wildfires is expected to at least double over...
Climate Change Set to Batter U.S. Agriculture, Forests
2013-02-07 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Climate change is likely to transform U.S. agriculture by mid-century, reducing yields of many staple crops and the productivity of livestock operations, according to a new government analysis. Rising temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns will also harm the nation's forests, increasing their vulnerability to fires, insect infestations and disease. Those are some of the dramatic projections outlined in a pair of analyses released Tuesday by the Agriculture Department. The documents,...
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Forests, Trees and Paul Harvey
2013-02-06 21:57:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Unless you've been under a rock, you've likely seen - or at the very least, heard about - the Dodge Ram advertisement heralding farmers during Sunday night's Super Bowl. It featured a powerful and nostalgic reading of the poem, "So God Made a Farmer," as delivered by Paul Harvey to the 1978 FFA Convention. read more
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Report: Warming bringing big changes to forests
2013-02-05 22:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Big changes are in store for the nation's forests as global warming increases wildfires and insect infestations, and generates more frequent floods and droughts, the U.S. Department of Agriculture warns in a new report. The study released Tuesday is part of the National Climate Assessment and will serve as a roadmap for managing national forests across the country in coming years. It says the area burned by wildfires is expected to at least double over the next 25 years, and insect infestations...
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