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Timber smugglers could make Senegal's last forests disappear soon
2016-05-26 17:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Forests in Senegal's lush Casamance region risk disappearing within two years because of illegal timber smuggling, one of the West African country's foremost environmentalists said on Thursday. Casamance in southern Senegal contains the country's last remaining forests, an area of 30,000 hectares (74,000 acres) that could be depleted by 2018 as smugglers feed the demand for rosewood furniture in China, said former environment minister Haidar El Ali. Exporting timber from Senegal is illegal,...
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Wildfires, Climate Change And Boreal Forests
2016-05-25 14:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Diane Rehm Show: Since the beginning of May, a massive, out-of-control fire has been raging in boreal forest lands in Alberta, Canada. The fire forced the evacuation of more than 80,000 residents of Fort McMurray and halted oil sands production. Scientists say climate change has contributed to the growing number and severity of wildfires in the worlds boreal forests. Hot, dry weather has lengthened fire seasons and created ideal conditions for wildfires. The fires in turn increase emissions of greenhouse gases....
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Young Forests Can Store Enormous Amounts of Carbon
2016-05-20 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Woodland areas that regrow after forest fires, logging operations or other disturbances can sequester huge amounts of carbon dioxide and they play an unexpectedly valuable role in mitigating climate change, according to a study by 60 scientists from across the globe. The research, published Friday in the journal Science Advances, is the first to quantify how much carbon these so-called second-growth forests can sequester, and it turns out it's huge. The scientists found that over the span of 40...
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Hurricanes Boost Carbon Storage in Southeastern Forests
2016-05-20 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Hurricanes hitting the Southeast coast can supercharge the region's forests, spurring them to store more than 100 times the carbon released annually by all vehicles in the U.S., Duke University researchers have found. Rainfall associated with hurricanes acts as fuel for photosynthesis, drastically increasing trees' carbon absorption rates, according to a recent study published in the journal Biogeosciences. Forests hit by tropical cyclones account for 9 percent of the warm season forest carbon...
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Forests re-grown on cleared lands in LatAm key for climate, land rights: study
2016-05-13 20:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Forests re-grown on lands that had been cleared for agriculture in Latin America could play a key role in trapping carbon from the atmosphere and mitigating climate change if they are managed properly, researchers said in a study published on Friday. Over the next 40 years, such second-growth forests have the potential to sequester greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to all fossil fuel and industrial emissions from Latin America in the past two decades, said the study by scientists at the University...
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