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The solution for melting polar ice caps may be hiding in rainforest
2016-01-11 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: There was already dramatic evidence that our planet is undeniably warming before 30 December 2015, when the world heard that the ice at the North Pole was melting. (The temperature on 30 December 2015 was, by some reports, 33F [0.7C], 50F above average). And yet one immediate, effective way to fight climate change and save polar ice caps is half a world away, in the tropics. Tropical forest conservation and restoration could constitute half of the global warming solution, according to a recent...
Christmas gift to the planet: massive rainforest reserve created in Borneo
2015-12-24 07:06:22| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Christmas has come early for some of the planets most endangered animals: the Malaysian state of Sabah has established a 68,000-hectare rainforest reserve that houses orangutans, elephants, and clouded leopards, among countless other species. The decision was announced today by the Rainforest Trust, an NGO that raised money to support the designation of a logging concession as a Class I Forest Reserve. Although the area was heavily exploited for timber, Kuamut Forest Reserve nonetheless serves...
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Fires rage in Amazon Rainforest
2015-12-07 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Ecologist: As world leaders meet in Paris to tackle carbon emissions, here in the Amazon we are watching forests burning unchecked, releasing carbon into the atmosphere, destroying sensitive ecosystems and making breathing difficult. There are forests fires in the Amazon every year, but 2015 is exceptional. We've been investigating the issue in the rainforest around Santarém, a city on the south bank of the Amazon, 800km from the sea. For the past five weeks we have woken up under a thick veil of smoke....
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These Shocking Photos Disappearing Amazon Rainforest Result One Unnecessary Choice
2015-11-28 18:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
One Green Planet: The Amazon rainforest is disappearing right before our eyes. In the past 20 years alone, an area the size of two Germanys has been clear cut from this ancient tropical rainforest and this is hardly the full extent of the damage. As the Amazon loses trees, it is also losing its ability to regulate weather patterns which is causing massive droughts in So Paulo, Brazil. To make matters worse, all of the animals native to the Amazon are being put in grave danger as their home is destroyed right in front...
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'Half a million ants march in Germany' for protection of Amazon rainforest
2015-08-18 18:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Half a million ants were enlisted at a German zoo Tuesday by ecologists from the conservation group WWF to call for the protection of the Amazon rainforest, ahead of a trip by Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel to Brazil. At what the group described as a demonstration, leafcutter ants -- a species indigenous to the world's biggest forest -- were seen carrying leaves bearing slogans cut out by WWF activists such as "Save the Amazon" and "Help, Merkel". The action organised by the zoo in Cologne...
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