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At UN climate talks African nations pledge to restore forests in fight against climate change
2015-12-05 21:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Tree by tree, more than a dozen African governments pledged to restore the continent's natural forests at the United Nations climate talks on Sunday. The earth has lost more than half its forests over the course of human history, according to the World Resources Institute. The deforestation of the world's tropical forests has contributed to climate change by producing up to 15 percent of global carbon emissions, the organization said. The AFR100 initiative is a pledge by African nations to restore...
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Protecting forests must become norm in supply chains: Prince Charles
2015-12-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Business leaders, environment ministers and even royalty urged companies to eschew raw materials that destroy forests, at the U.N. climate summit in Paris on Tuesday. The CEO of Marks and Spencer, Britain's high-street retail giant, said $150 billion per year of value was at stake, in terms of the resources forests provide for business, including palm oil, soy and timber. Marc Bolland took to the podium on the sidelines of the climate summit, alongside representatives of indigenous Amazon dwellers...
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On forests, UN & indigenous people are worlds apart
2015-12-02 12:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: On the cold tarmac of the UN tent city, indigenous dress clashed with a blur of business attire as Amazonian Indians milled around a mock Eiffel Tower. With facial markings and feather headdresses, these were some of the few to gain accreditation to a climate summit on Paris` heavily-policed margins. They had travelled thousands of miles to have their voices heard. Negotiators from 195 nations are grappling to clinch a new global climate agreement by the end of next week. But the COP21,...
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Rich in energy and with vast forests, Russia pays little attention to climate change
2015-11-28 15:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
U.S. News: When forest fires roared through Siberia this summer, so vast that the smoke blocked vast Lake Baikal from satellite view, Russian officials blamed the blazes on arsonists and disorganized fire crews. Environmentalists say there was another culprit: global warming. As temperatures rise worldwide, areas such as Siberia are suffering increasingly long dry spells. Russia's national weather agency says the country is the fastest-warming part of the world. But Russia has taken little action to reduce...
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Fossil Forests Found In Arctic Circle; Drastic Climate Shifts 380 Million Yrs Ago
2015-11-23 06:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: "It's amazing that we've uncovered one of the very first forests in the very place that is now being used to preserve the Earth's plant diversity," Dr. Chris Berry, a professor in Cardiff University's School of Earth and Ocean Science, said in a news release. "These fossil forests show us what the vegetation and landscape were like on the equator 380 million years ago, as the first trees were beginning to appear on the Earth." During the Devonian period (420-360 million years ago) there was a...
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