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Did Mayan deforestation change the climate?
2015-09-03 23:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The pre-Columbian Mayans are known for many things: El Castillo at Chichen Itza, stucco masks and hieroglyphics, and a Long Count calendar that had nothing to do with a 2012 apocalypse, to name a few. But contemporary thinkers tend not to associate the Mayans with environmental degradation and climate change. A team of geoarchaelogists, led by researchers from the University of Texas-Austin, is here to change that. The group`s new review claims that we should look to the "Mayacene" era (c. 1050...
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Increase in rate of Brazilian Amazon deforestation raises alarm
2015-09-03 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Figures released this week point to an apparent rise in deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon over the last year, an ominous development that one researcher attributed to an increase in cattle ranching aimed at the U.S. market. The newly lost forest, nearly 2,000 square miles, amounts to an area about the size of Delaware. The report was published by Brazil's National Institute for Space Research and is based on satellite data used to monitor day-to-day changes in Amazon forest cover. The figures...
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Google-powered map shows deforestation isnt just about the Amazon
2015-09-03 00:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: When you hear deforestation, you might think Brazil. It`s a fair association: Over the past four decades, upwards of 20 percent of the Amazon rainforest has been cut down. But Brazil also boasts a relative success story, having reduced deforestation in the Amazon by 70 percent over the past ten years. Instead, new data from a collaboration between Google and the University of Maryland illustrate unprecedented -- and until now, largely overlooked -- forest loss in Southeast Asia and West Africa, among...
Agrarian settlements drive severe tropical deforestation across the Amazon
2015-08-01 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Resettlement projects in the Amazon are driving severe tropical deforestation -- according to new research from the University of East Anglia and Cāmara dos Deputados (the Brazilian Lower House). Widely hailed as a socially responsible and 'innocuous' strategy of land redistribution, agrarian reform settlements have been created throughout the Brazilian Amazon since the early 1970s at an unprecedented scale. But a study published in PLOS ONE reveals that these farmer resettlement projects are far...
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Starbucks food: May contain deforestation palm oil
2015-07-30 00:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Concerned about palm oil, but still grabbing your morning breakfast at Starbucks? You might want to skip that scone. According to environmental protection advocate Forest Heroes, the coffee giant, which recently created stricter sourcing policies for its coffee, tea, and cocoa, has yet to take meaningful action on palm oil, which it uses in its baked goods. Additionally, Starbucks only scored 10 out of 100 points on the Union of Concerned Scientists 2015 Palm Oil Scorecard. Why the low marks? Forest...
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