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Researchers project long-term effects of climate change, deforestation on Himalayan mountain basins
2015-10-20 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: As part of an multi-disciplinary study, a team of Baylor researchers found that climatic changes, an increase in agricultural land use and population growth in the Himalaya Mountain basins could have negative impacts on water availability, further stressing a region plagued by natural disasters and food insecurity. The study--"Projected hydrologic changes in monsoon-dominated Himalaya Mountain basins with changing climate and deforestation"--is published in the Journal of Hydrology. Using a sophisticated...
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Did Mayan deforestation change the climate?
2015-09-03 23:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The pre-Columbian Mayans are known for many things: El Castillo at Chichen Itza, stucco masks and hieroglyphics, and a Long Count calendar that had nothing to do with a 2012 apocalypse, to name a few. But contemporary thinkers tend not to associate the Mayans with environmental degradation and climate change. A team of geoarchaelogists, led by researchers from the University of Texas-Austin, is here to change that. The group`s new review claims that we should look to the "Mayacene" era (c. 1050...
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Deforestation cuts into climate change goals
2014-12-08 11:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Mines, palm oil plantations, large farms and mining projects are contributing to an alarming pace of forest destruction, a new report has found, hampering efforts to curb global warming. Satellite imagery indicates that more than 30,000 hectares of forest are lost daily, said the report "Securing Forests, Securing Rights", launched in Peru on Monday by a coalition of rights groups during international climate change talks. Forests play a key role in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere;...
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Climate change and deforestation increasing forest fire risk in Amazon
2014-04-16 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: A combination of climate change and deforestation is making the Amazon rainforest increasingly vulnerable to devastating forest fires, a new study has said. The Amazon is one of the most important ecosystems on the planet. It is estimated that about 10% of all known species live in the 5.5 million sq km rainforest. The region is also called the lungs of the Earth, because its trees remove considerable amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, therefore lessening climate change. Despite its...
Fire Caused by Climate Change, Deforestation Trouble For Amazon
2014-04-16 08:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Auto World: Fires caused by climate change and deforestation could mean trouble for the trees of the Amazonian rainforest, according to a new study. Biologists from Brazil's Amazon Environmental Research Institute and the Woods Hole Research Center in the U.S. conducted field experiments to figure out how severe drought accelerates forest dieback. Research was published recently in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Traditionally, fires are caused by natural forces in the Amazon....
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