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Oil company breaks agreement, builds roads Yasuni rainforest
2014-06-05 15:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: When the Ecuadorian government approved permits for an oil company to drill deep in Yasuni National Park-an area known as Block 31-it was on the condition that the company undertake a roadless design with helicopters doing the majority of the leg-work. However, a new report based on high-resolution satellite imagery has uncovered that the company in question, Petroamazonas, has flouted the agreement's conditions, building a massive access road, at least one permanent bridge, and cutting more forest...
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Logger destroy Indonesian rainforest despite green promises
2014-06-03 13:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Indonesian logging giant Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) is continuing to destroy endangered rainforests on Sumatra despite a high profile commitment to clean up its operations, reveal aerial photos captured by Greenpeace last month. The pictures show excavators leveling forests on carbon-dense peatlands on Pulau Padang, an island where APRIL claims to be restoring forest. Visible in the images are canals dug to drain peatlands to make them suitable for industrial acacia plantations....
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Human Impact on Amazon Rainforest Grossly Underestimated
2014-05-23 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Human impact on the Amazon rainforest has been grossly underestimated, according to an international team of researchers. The report detailed in the journal Global Change Biology says that selective logging and surface wildfires can amount to an annual loss of 54 billion tons of carbon from the Brazilian Amazon - that's equivalent to 40 percent of the yearly carbon loss from deforestation. Researchers estimated both above and below-ground carbon loss from selective logging and ground level...
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Publishing industry reduces reliance rainforest fiber
2014-05-18 00:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The world's largest publishing companies have adopted policies that significantly curtail use of paper sourced from rainforest destruction and social conflict, finds a new assessment published by the Rainforest Action Network (RAN). The report looks at sourcing policies for the ten biggest publishing houses: Candlewick Press, Disney, Hachette, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, MacMillan, Pearson / Penguin, Random House, Scholastic, and Simon and Schuster and compares these with the state...
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Scientists to study Amazon rainforest fate if CO2 levels rise
2014-05-15 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A group of scientists from more than 20 institutions around the world will gauge the impact on the world's largest rainforest if a time comes when the planet has 30 percent more carbon dioxide (CO2) than today, according to a project launched on Wednesday. A large experiment including towers that will pump CO2 into plots of dense forests will be built in a region north of Manaus, in the Brazilian Amazonas state. Sensors and field observation will evaluate the reaction of the trees when subject...
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