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In Brazil, Deforestation Is Up, And So Is The Risk Of Tree Extinction
2015-11-27 18:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The rate of deforestation in Brazil has increased by 16 percent over the past year, the country's Environment Ministry announced. Brazil has often declared progress in reducing the rate of deforestation in the Amazon, but the government's own figures, released Thursday, show the challenges still facing the country. Satellite imagery showed that 2,251 square miles were destroyed in Brazil's Amazon from August 2014 to July 2015, compared with 1,935 square miles destroyed in the same period a...
New Forest 500 report finds both public and private sector long way go on deforestation
2015-11-20 12:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Just 31 companies adopted new deforestation policies or strengthened existing policies in the past year, though two titans of their respective industries, McDonalds and Bunge, did commit to zero net deforestation across all of their commodities supply chains. Just 1 percent of the financial institutions among the Global Canopy Programme's "Forest 500" have pledged to eliminate deforestation from their lending portfolios. Financial institutions and governments play a vital role in creating the...
Deforestation 'might have started west Africa's Ebola outbreak'
2015-10-29 17:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Deforestation may have triggered the recent Ebola outbreak in west Africa, Frances environment minister Ségolène Royal told a London summit hosted by the Prince of Wales ahead of next months Cop21 conference. Addressing the British energy and climate change secretary, Amber Rudd, representatives from forest nation governments and global companies, Royal said researchers believe the destruction of forest habitat brought bats, known to carry the virus, into greater contact with humans....
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Prince Charles calls for focus on deforestation ahead of Paris climate talks
2015-10-29 17:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Prince of Wales has said tackling deforestation will be central to combating global warming as he confirmed he will attend next months crucial climate change summit. World leaders will gather in Paris in four weeks time to attend the COP21 conference and attempt to reach a new international agreement to help limit global warming to no more than 2C. Charles will address the delegates at the opening of the summit. But at a London meeting of foreign environment ministers, private firms and...
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Researchers project long-term effects of climate change, deforestation on Himalayan mountain basins
2015-10-20 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: As part of an multi-disciplinary study, a team of Baylor researchers found that climatic changes, an increase in agricultural land use and population growth in the Himalaya Mountain basins could have negative impacts on water availability, further stressing a region plagued by natural disasters and food insecurity. The study--"Projected hydrologic changes in monsoon-dominated Himalaya Mountain basins with changing climate and deforestation"--is published in the Journal of Hydrology. Using a sophisticated...
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