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Neil Young to save the rainforest using solar powered mobile phones
2014-07-29 18:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Neil Youngs concern for the environment shows no sign of abating. 44 years after first singing look at Mother Nature on the run in the 1970s, the Canadian legend is following in Stings footsteps by throwing his weight behind a new project to save the rainforest. The composer of After The Goldrush has teamed up with Rainforest Connection the brainchild of American physicist Topher White to set up a network of solar-powered mobile phones that alert guards to illegal logging activity. The...
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Roads through the rainforest: an overview of South America's 'arc of deforestation'
2014-07-22 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: When a new road centipedes its way across a landscape, the best of intentions may be laid with the pavement. But roads, by their very nature, are indiscriminate pathways, granting access for travel and trade along with deforestation and other forms of environmental degradation. And as the impacts of roads on forest ecosystems become clear, governments and planning agencies reach a moral crossroads. Roads have the potential to greatly cut costs for businesses and farms, grant rural communities...
Clearing of Amazon rainforest for agriculture emits 54 million tons of carbon per year
2014-07-10 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The selective logging and burning of trees carried out to clear land for farming in the Amazon rainforest releases 54 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere every year, according to a new study. While rainforests are invaluable because of their biodiversity and importance to global ecosystems, they also provide an essential service, as trees store significant amounts of carbon. When released, this carbon can be a big contributor to climate change. Such concerns have prompted worries over...
Amazon rainforest once looked more like savannas of Africa than a jungle
2014-07-08 15:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: A series of square, straight and ringlike ditches scattered throughout the Bolivian and Brazilian Amazon were there before the rainforest existed, a new study finds. These human-made structures remain a mystery: They may have been used for defense, drainage, or perhaps ceremonial or religious reasons. But the new research addresses another burning question: whether and how much prehistoric people altered the landscape in the Amazon before the arrival of Europeans. "People have been affecting...
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Unesco blocks Australias proposals to open up Tasmanian rainforest to logging
2014-06-25 12:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The UN has rejected a proposal from the Australian government to revoke the special protection afforded to 74,000 hectares of Tasmanian rainforest, in order to allow logging operations in the region to resume. The controversial request was unanimously rejected within just seven minutes at a meeting of the Unescos world heritage committee in Doha, as delegates from Germany, Colombia and Portugal argued against the delisting. The news agency Reuters reported that members of the Portuguese delegation...
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