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The Amazon Rainforest's Silent Killer, Understory Fires, Outburns Deforestation
2013-06-11 11:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Latinos Post: Researchers for the first time mapped the extent and frequency of understory fires across a study area (green) spanning 1.2 million square miles (3 million square kilometers) in the southern Amazon forest. Fires were widespread across the forest frontier during the study period from 1999-2010. Recurrent fires, however, are concentrated in areas favored by the confluence of climate conditions suitable for burning and ignition sources from humans. Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest may capture...
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Warming May Harm Rainforests Less Than First Thought
2013-03-16 15:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Scientists think they have found some good news for the Amazon and other tropical forests. They say they appear more able to withstand the effects of climate change than previous studies had suggested. The research team, including climate scientists and tropical ecologists from the UK, U.S., Australia and Brazil, concluded that the forests are less likely to lose biomass -- plants and plant material -- in response to greenhouse gas emissions over the rest of this century. What they say is the...
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Improving community healthcare helps protect rainforests in Borneo
2013-03-14 01:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Providing high quality healthcare to communities around a rainforest park in Indonesian Borneo may be helping reduce chronic illegal logging, suggests a new assessment published by a conservation group. The five-year impact assessment published by Indonesia-based Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI) is based on surveys of nearly 1,500 households and 6,345 people living around Gunung Palung National Park in West Kalimantan. The study compares key health, economic, and conservation indicators to a baseline survey...
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UK's Centre for Ecology and Hydrology says rainforests will survive climate change
2013-03-10 12:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: NEW research has challenged "catastrophic" climate change forecasts for the world's tropical rainforests, instead predicting that they will survive even if greenhouse gas emissions aren't cut. An international team of computer climate modelling experts found rainforests in Asia, Africa and the Americas would not dramatically shrink, in contrast to warnings, including those from Australia's Chief Climate Commissioner Professor Tim Flannery, that global warming was a catastrophe for tropical rainforests....
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Carbon release, storage by rainforests may increase by 50b tons
2013-02-08 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Faster plant growth due to higher concentrations of carbon dioxide may offset increased emissions from forest die-off in the tropics, asserts a new study based on climate modeling. The research, published this week in the journal Nature, looks at how year-to-year variations in CO2 levels effect the long-term rate of carbon storage in tropical forests. It found that previous models may have overestimated the likelihood of forest die-back by assuming excessive variability in CO2 levels, while underestimating...
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