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Rainforest Dams Need Rainforests For Water
Deforestation may significantly decrease the hydroelectric potential of tropical rainforest regions, warns a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, reports Rhett Butler at Mongabay. The study used climate, hydrological, and land use models to forecast … Continue reading
Land Reform Key to Saving Forests, Fighting Climate Change – Study
Ensuring that forest dwellers have rights over their land is vital for slowing deforestation that may be causing up to a fifth of the world’s emissions of greenhouse gases, says a new report by the nonprofit organization Rights and Resources … Continue reading
Criminals Are Destroying Important Carbon Storage Systems
Instead of buying illegal wood, we should prevent illegal loggers from destroying the remaining rainforests that function as important climate change buffers by storing carbon, writes William Laurance at the Canberra Times, an Australian newspaper. The 2012 World Bank report, … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, Asia, carbon storage, climate change, climate change solutions, deforestation, environment, global warming
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Micro Chameleons Are Cute — and Threatened: Want to Help Them?
I’ve just published this at the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-ellen-harte/micro-chameleons-are-cute_b_1311949.html Here is the reprinted text (but the links only work when you read it at the huff link): Have you seen those newly described micro Brookesia chameleons from Madagascar? They are … Continue reading
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Tagged Chameleons, Conservation, Contraceptives, Cute Animals, deforestation, Madagascar, overpopulation, Poverty, wildlife
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Ancient Alaska Cedars Freezing to Death From Climate Change
Yellow cedars are beautiful trees that can live to be more than a thousand years old, but something is now killing them by the millions, says scientist Paul Hennon at the Pacific Northwest Research Station in Alaska, on a recent … Continue reading
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Tagged Alaska, Arctic, climate change, deforestation, extreme weather, forests, global warming
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Forests Create Rain – New Biotic Pump Theory
Published in 2007 by two Russian physicists, the still little-known biotic pump theory postulates that forests create and control ocean-to-land winds, bringing moisture to terrestrial life, reports Rhett Butler at Mongabay. How? Winds tend to blow from areas of high … Continue reading
As Rainforest Roads Increase, Carbon Storage Systems Decrease
We live in an era of unprecedented road and highway expansion into many of the world’s last tropical wildernesses, from the Amazon to Borneo to the Congo Basin, reports William Laurance at Environment 360. Brazil is currently building 7,500 … Continue reading
Amazon Basin Becoming Carbon Emitter – Study
The Amazon Basin, traditionally considered a bulwark against global warming, may be becoming a net contributor of carbon dioxide (CO2) as a result of human deforestation, researchers said in a paper recently published in the journal Nature, reports Agence France … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, carbon emissions, carbon emitter, carbon sink, climate change, deforestation, forests, global warming, rainforests
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Climate Change Hitting Latin America with Extreme Weather
From Chile to Colombia to Mexico, Latin America has been battered recently by wildfires, floods and droughts, report Cesar Garcia And Ian James of Associated Press at the Sacramento Bee. While leading climate scientists are unable to pin any single … Continue reading
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Tagged climate change, deforestation, droughts, extreme weather, flooding, global warming, Latin America, Mexico, South America
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