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China's forests recovering at the expense of other nations, study says

2016-03-18 19:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: After taking a beating from decades of logging, China's forests have begun to regenerate, but the problem of deforestation may have shifted to other nations exporting wood to the world's most populous country, researchers said on Friday. Between 2000 and 2010, about 1.2 percent of China's territory - an area larger than Portugal - experienced a significant net gain in tree cover, said the study from researchers at Michigan State University in the United States. Instead of cutting down its own...

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Households' spending power 'recovering'

2016-02-23 12:16:51| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

The typical level of disposable income available to households in the UK was 25,700 in 2014-15, official figures show.

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Recovering tropical forests a sponge for CO2: study

2016-02-05 05:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Agence France-Presse: Tropical forests reclaiming land cleared for agriculture or livestock not only grow quickly, but absorb far more CO2 from the atmosphere than old-growth trees, according to a study released. The research, published in the journal Nature, challenges long-standing assumptions that virgin tropical forests untouched by logging or industry do a better job of sopping up carbon dioxide and, in so doing, slowing the pace of global warming. It is also good news because it means regenerating tropic forests...

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