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Carbon storage recovers faster than plant biodiversity in re-growing tropical forests
2013-11-07 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A new study of re-growing tropical forests has concluded that plant biodiversity takes longer to recover than carbon storage following major disturbances such as clearance for farming. The findings, published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, have important implications for conservation since there are now many re-growing forests in South and Central America. The new study is the first large-scale analysis of the recovery of both plant biodiversity and carbon pools...
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'Unburnable' carbon fuels investment concerns
2013-11-07 08:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: For the last decade, the energy industry has been convinced that demand for oil, gas and coal will keep growing quickly for the next 20 years; oil prices will remain high, and China will continue to build two coal power stations a week. The profits for oil and mining companies will keep flooding in. The investment community has largely accepted this view and backed companies' investment of hundreds of billions of dollars a year in finding and developing new reserves. Of course, rampant growth...
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U.K. Has No Economic Case to Weaken Carbon Goals: Adviser
2013-11-07 01:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: The U.K. has no economic or scientific cause to weaken its carbon targets, the governments adviser on climate change said, reducing the chance ministers will alter a goal to cut emissions in half by 2027. Britain charts its emissions cuts in five-year carbon budgets. In May 2011, it announced a target for CO2 output during the fourth budget for 2023-2027 to average half the 1990 level. At the same time, it pledged to review the goal in 2014 to make sure its in line with commitments by other...
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Carbon Audio Zooka
2013-11-06 19:34:09| PC Magazine Speakers Product Guide
The Carbon Audio Zooka is a good-looking, colorful portable Bluetooth wireless speaker that can act as a stand for your iPad, but audio performance suffers if you pump up the volume.
Disturbed Tropical Forests Store Carbon But Are Slow to Regain Plant Biodiversity, Study Says
2013-11-06 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: In tropical forests that are regrowing after major disturbances, the ability to store carbon recovers more quickly than plant biodiversity, researchers from the U.K. have found. However, even after 80 years, recovering forests store less carbon than old-growth forests, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. This is likely because regenerating forests are often dominated by small, fast-growing trees and it may take centuries for larger trees, which hold more carbon,...
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