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Impacts of deforestation on Amazonian river ecosystems could be far-reaching
2014-12-18 21:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Vast areas of the Amazon forest are being destroyed for agricultural uses, mainly industrial-scale soybean crops, and turned into pasture land for livestock. The riparian forests surrounding streams have not been exempt from this trend. And though headwater streams in the Brazilian Amazon are valuable aquatic ecosystems, little research has been done to determine how deforestation is impacting the streams environmental integrity and ability to function as natural habitats. That is, until now....
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Initiative restore 50M acres degraded Latin American ecosystems by 2020
2014-12-08 17:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A coalition of governments and organizations today pledged to restore 20 million hectares (50 million acres) of degraded forests and ecosystems across Latin America by 2020 under an initiative that aims to curb boost rural incomes, fight climate change, and increase agricultural production. The effort is backed by $365 million from five impact investors. Five NGOs - World Resources Institute (WRI), International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación...
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World governments failing Earth's ecosystems, says top conservationist
2014-11-09 14:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Governments are lagging behind on international commitments to safeguard the planets ecosystems, with politicians failing to grasp that economic growth depends upon environmental protection, the head of the worlds leading conservation organisation has warned. Julia Marton-Lefvre, director general of the IUCN, the body that advises the United Nations on environmental matters, told Guardian Australia that conservation needed to be properly embraced by political leaders. I think world leaders...
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Israeli ecosystems appear too tough for climate change
2014-10-26 01:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of Israel: Climate change may not pose a serious risk to plants in parts of Israel in the coming decades, according to an ecological study based on years of induced drought. The conclusion - the plants are tougher than the changes - runs counter to the current scientific consensus. Semi-arid and Mediterranean ecosystems are thought to be among the most vulnerable to climate change, but in the study, conducted by an international team of scientists, a nine-year climate change rainfall simulation had almost...
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Renault and Eco2charge developing energy ecosystems for EV charging at commercial buildings; second-life battery packs
2014-09-25 16:30:38| Green Car Congress
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