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Controversial research outlines physics behind how forests may bring rain
2013-01-30 18:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: It took over two-and-a-half-years for the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics to finally accept a paper outlining a new meteorological hypothesis in which condensation, not temperature, drives winds. If proven correct, the hypothesis could have massive ramifications on global policy-not to mention meteorology-as essentially the hypothesis means that the world's forest play a major role in driving precipitation from the coast into a continent's interior. The theory, known as the biotic pump,...
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Spring may come earlier to North American forests, increasing uptake of carbon dioxide
2013-01-30 00:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Trees in the continental U.S. could send out new spring leaves up to 17 days earlier in the coming century than they did before global temperatures started to rise, according to a new study by Princeton University researchers. These climate-driven changes could lead to changes in the composition of northeastern forests and give a boost to their ability to take up carbon dioxide. Trees play an important role in taking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, so researchers...
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Spring may come earlier to North American forests
2013-01-29 11:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Contact: Catherine Zandonella czandone@princeton.edu Princeton University Trees in the continental U.S. could send out new spring leaves up to 17 days earlier in the coming century than they did before global temperatures started to rise, according to a new study by Princeton University researchers. These climate-driven changes could lead to c…
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As China Builds, Cambodia's Forests Fall
2013-01-29 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: China's demand for natural resources is being felt in a big way in Cambodia. Illegal logging and economic land concessions are threatening Cambodia's dwindling forests, which now echo the sound of chainsaws. Prey Lang forest -- an eight-hour journey north and east of the capital, Phnom Penh -- is one of the forests where illegal loggers see money signs on the trees. Supply And Demand "It's just like in the United States in the 1960s, when every single redwood tree was a target for illegal...
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Helping Borneo's indigenous people fight for their forests
2013-01-28 03:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: In the 1980's and 1990's more timber was removed from the rainforests Borneo than from all of Africa and South America combined. This tragic loss of habitat, with its attendant loss of wildlife and indigenous cultures, has gone largely unrecognized in the United States. Joe Lamb, a Berkeley-based writer, activist, and arborist, has worked to change that. In 1991 Lamb founded The Borneo Project to draw attention to the forgotten rainforest and the indigenous peoples who have been fighting to keep...
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