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A Barbados Family Tree With \'Sugar In The Blood\'
2013-02-05 06:53:00| Sugar Industry News
In her new book, Sugar in the Blood, Andrea Stuart weaves her family story around the history of slavery and sugar in Barbados. Stuart\'s great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather landed on the island in the 1630s. He had been a blacksmith in England, but became a sugar planter in Barbados, at a time when demand for the crop was exploding worldwide. Stuart is descended from a slave owner who, several generations after the family landed in Barbados, had relations with an unknown slave.
Rate of tree die-off in Amazon higher than conventionally believed
2013-02-01 21:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The rate of tree mortality in the Amazon rainforest due to storm damage and drought is 9-17 percent higher than conventionally believed, reports a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Comparing Landsat satellite images with on-the-ground observations, researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, INPA, Tulane University, and other institutions found that roughly half a million dead trees across a 1000-square-mile plot of Brazilian rainforest...
U-Md. mapping tree DNA in climate-change study
2013-01-30 19:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The University of Maryland is seeking volunteers for a coast-to-coast study of trees and climate change. The university's Center for Environmental Science said Wednesday that the volunteers will monitor seasonal changes in poplar and aspen trees across the northern United States. The National Science Foundation has given the center's Appalachian Laboratory in Frostburg a $1.5 million grant to study climate adaptation in forest trees. The scientists say they hope to identify areas where trees are...
Brazil plans Amazon tree census to assess deforestation
2013-01-27 15:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Brazilian government is to launch a four-year tree census of the Amazon to improve understanding of the impacts of deforestation, climate change and conservation efforts. The study will also help to assess the potential value of the biodiversity under the canopy and the growth of human settlements in the Amazon region, which is home to a number of fast-expanding cities, as well as uncontacted indigenous tribes. The cataloguing operation will be the most detailed study for 40 years a period...
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PSC Hopes Tree Trimming Order Will Cut Back on Outages
2013-01-24 11:44:10| Energy - Topix.net
American Electric Power and FirstEnergy officials need to trim trees near their power lines more often, according to the Public Service Commission of West Virginia.
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