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Our planet is changing - so must our global food system
2014-09-25 22:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jakarta Post: With the world's population predicted to reach 9 billion by 2050, we collectively face a dual challenge: ensuring that everyone will have access to affordable, nutritious food without decimating the earth's natural resources in the process. This is easier said than done. Our current food system is dysfunctional both in its impact on people and the planet. Unless we change course, we will fail to meet this challenge. Today, millions do not have enough to eat and billions lack the right nutrients...
Scientists rebut NYTimes op-ed 'To Save the Planet, Dont Plant Trees'
2014-09-22 10:39:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: One of the biggest near-term opportunities to mitigate climate change is to slow down deforestation and forest degradation in the tropics, where the lions share of the worlds forest loss is taking place. Brazil has reduced deforestation rates in the Amazon region by 70%, for example, keeping 3.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere since 2005 and elevating this nation to global leadership in climate change solutions. In a recent Op-Ed (To Save the Planet, Dont Plant Trees, New...
Converting Forests to Cropland Actually Cooled the Planet
2014-09-11 02:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Researchers have recently discovered that over the last 150 years, the conversion of forests into cropland has actually resulted in a small amount of global cooling. These results underscore the overall complexity of the climate change issue. According to a study recently published in the journal Nature Climate Change, large-scale forest losses that have occurred over the last 150 years have actually reduced global emissions of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) - agents that aid the...
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Rocky Mountain Forests Vanishing as Planet Heats Up
2014-09-10 23:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Climate change could kill up to 90 percent of the forests covering the Rocky Mountains, warned the nonprofit Union of Concerned Scientists today in a new study based in part on projections made by the U.S. Forest Service. Extreme heat and drought, more and larger wildfires over a longer fire season, and beetle infestations have killed tens of millions of trees in the Rocky Mountains over the past 15 years, according to the study, "Rocky Mountain Forests at Risk." Large wildfires, such as the...
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The rebellion to save planet Earth: Why civil disobedience could be our last, best hope
2014-09-07 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Salon: The politics of climate change are shifting. After decades of halfhearted government efforts to stop global warming, and the failure of the Big Green NGOs to do much of anything about it, new voices -- and new strategies -- have taken the lead in the war against fossil fuels. Jeremy Brecher, a freelance writer, historian, organizer and radio host based in Connecticut, has documented the environmental movements turn toward direct action and grass-roots activism. A scholar of American workers...
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