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Actions In Amazon Rain Forest Contradict Brazil's Promise
2016-02-24 11:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Brazil is home to more than half of the rain forest and it contributes to carbon pollution. Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Juliana Barbassa about how plans to put a stop to deforestation are going.
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Burning rain forest raises concern about future
2015-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle Times: Fire crews call them cat faces, deep holes that flames have burned into the trunks of the centuries-old Sitka spruce and hemlock growing here in the Queets River valley. The trees may smolder for days spouting smoke from their bases before finally toppling to the ground with a thunderous crash that sounds like a bomb has gone off. They are falling down regularly, said Dave Felsen, a firefighter from Klamath Falls, Ore. You can hear cracking and you try to move, but its so thick in there...
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14 Million Soccer Fields Of Amazonian Rain Forest Saved From Clearcutting
2014-06-26 11:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CleanTechnica: A research study published in Science this month (June 2014) found that a 70% decline in Brazilian Amazon deforestation could be an indication that effective management of the expanding agricultural sector is possible. One of the leading organizations behind the study was the Earth Innovation Institute in San Francisco, CA. (There were seven others that contributed to the research as well, like Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará, Bairro Fátima.) Some key points from the study paper: 86,000...
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Indonesia`s rain forest agency set to be in full swing
2013-12-30 10:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Antara: A new agency to protect Indonesias rainforests is ready to begin work to implement a first of its kind environmental program. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signed Presidential Regulation No. 62/2013 on August 31, 2013, entitled Managing Body for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), concluding a process that took more than two years. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, known as REDD+, is a UN-designed program to ensure that it becomes...
Rain Forest Warriors: How Indigenous Tribes Protect Amazon
2013-12-22 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The destruction of the Amazon in Brazil can be seen by satellite: Where logging roads have spread their tentacles and ranchers have expanded their grazing, all is brown. Beginning in the early 1980s, these photos from space lost more and more green, so that by 2004 the destruction seemed unstoppable. Brazil's deforestation rate had reached an alarming 27,000 square kilometers (nearly 17,000 square miles) per year. But stop it did-not everywhere, but at the borders of what appears from space...
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