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Indigenous Communitys Fight to Save Canadas Boreal Forest
2015-09-24 21:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: A metal-hulled outboard motorboat took me the last two hours of my three-day journey to one of the last intact forests in North America, in Canadas Boreal forest. In the end, I traveled more than 3,000 miles, including a substantial amount of time in a white van with a poor suspension system, experiencing every bump on some very long and bumpy logging roads. After that long journey--which also included two flights, a 20-hour drive and a helicopter ride--I finally reached the traditional lands...
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Why climate change pushing Earth boreal forests tipping point
2015-08-22 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Monitor: International policy makers should set their sights on the protection of boreal forests, international forestry experts argued this week in an article published Thursday in the journal Science. The article was part of a special issue on forests released before the World Forestry Congress is held in September. Boreal forests have the potential to hit a tipping point this century, said Anatoly Shvidenko, a researcher scholar with the Ecosystems Services and Management Program at Austria's International...
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Climate change forcing boreal forest to a tipping point
2015-08-20 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Budapest Report: "Boreal forests have the potential to hit a tipping point this century," said IIASA Ecosystems Services and Management Program researcher Anatoly Shvidenko. "It is urgent that we place more focus on climate mitigation and adaptation with respect to these forests, and also take a more integrated and balanced view of forests around the world." Boral forests are believed to be among the ecosystems that are most sensitive to climate change. These forests thrive in regions such as Canada, Russia and...
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Changing climate prompts boreal forest shift
2015-06-12 03:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: With warming summer temperatures across Alaska, white spruce tree growth in Interior Alaska has declined to record low levels, while the same species in Western Alaska is growing better than ever measured before. The findings are the result of a study led by University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Natural Resources and Extension researcher Glenn Juday, Claire Alix of the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, and Tom Grant, formerly an adjunct faculty member at UAF. Their findings were recently...
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Conservation groups seek protect North American boreal forests
2015-03-15 22:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vancouver Sun: Leading conservation groups, including Ducks Unlimited and the National Audubon Society, are pressing for a plan to protect North American boreal forests that are home to an estimated 3 billion birds and more than 300 species. Protecting at least 50 per cent of the boreal forest is in line with what modern conservation science contends is needed to preserve the ecological health of the forest and its biodiversity, says Dr. Jeff Wells, senior scientist for the Boreal Songbird Initiative. Climate...
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