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Study: Drought impedes tree growth, shuts down Amazon carbon sink
2016-07-21 14:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The Amazon rainforest is popularly known as the the planets lungs absorbing and storing 100 billion tons of carbon and preventing it from entering the atmosphere. Maintaining that vast carbon sink is seen as vital to limiting climate change impacts. Now, new research published in the Global Biogeochemical Cycles journal shows that droughts can bring this crucial ecosystem service to a grinding halt. University of Exeter scientist Dr. Ted Feldpausch and an international team of researchers...
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PureCircle to sink US$100m into "year-round" stevia supply
2016-07-19 13:03:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
PureCircle is to expand its stevia footprint outside of China with a US$100m investment.
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Drought stalls tree growth and shuts down Amazon carbon sink, researchers find
2016-07-06 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A recent drought completely shut down the Amazon Basin's carbon sink, by killing trees and slowing their growth, a ground-breaking study led by researchers at the Universities of Exeter and Leeds has found. Previous research has suggested that the Amazon -the most extensive tropical forest on Earth and one of the "green lungs" of the planet -- may be gradually losing its capacity to take carbon from the atmosphere. This new study, the most extensive land-based study of the effect of drought on Amazonian...
Professor inadvertently helped sink fracking rule
2016-06-23 14:05:14| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ClimateWire: Many law professors would be thrilled to have their work cited in a major court decision. Not Hannah Wiseman. The Florida State University law professor, who specializes in energy and environmental law, was dismayed when her 2008 law review article was cited by opponents of an Obama administration hydraulic fracturing rule in their bid to freeze the rule. And yesterday, she was irked again when she was cited in a strongly worded ruling that struck down the administration's regulation. Hannah...
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Watching Worlds Sink -- Witnessing Climate Change In Pacific
2016-05-29 03:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: These pictures are part of a piece called Warm Waters -- a long-term, ongoing photography project documenting how man made global warming is an immediate problem for some of the world's smallest nations and countries. Sokhin first started to think about the effects of climate change while on assignment in Papua New Guinea, where he visited a region known as Manus Island. He had worked on several assignments about deforestation and climate change, but it was a small island off Manus -- half eroded...
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