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Political posturing while Asian forests keep burning
2015-09-18 13:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The Indonesian government appears to be taking a tougher line on forest fires, but the haze is worse than ever. Southeast Asias haze is back. Forest and peatland fires in western Indonesia are causing clouds of thick smoke full of unhealthy particles, which blow north across Malaysia and Singapore, disrupting daily life and causing a health hazard. The Pollutant Standards Index reading in Singapore reached 249 on 14-15 September, far exceeding the safe level of 100. Indonesias government is under...
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Chaotic Illegal Timber Trade Threatens Crucial Forests in Southeastern Asia
2015-09-17 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: A murky, illegal timber trade enabled by systemic corruption exists between China and Myanmar and is worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually, making it one of the world's largest illegal timber schemes, according to a new analysis by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). At stake are some of the most ecologically important remaining forests in Southeast Asia, EIA says. The report documents how Chinese businesses pay in gold bars for the rights to log entire mountains and smuggle timber...
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Global Deforestation Slows But Forests Still Shrinking
2015-09-16 07:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Over the past 25 years the rate of global deforestation has slowed by more than 50 percent, even though the world`s forests continue to shrink as populations increase and forested land is developed, the UN`s Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, reports. Some 129 million hectares of forest -- an area almost equivalent in size to South Africa -- have been lost since 1990, according to FAO`s most comprehensive forest review to date, "The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015." "Forests play...
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Increasingly severe disturbances weaken world's temperate forests
2015-08-28 15:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Physorg: Longer, more severe, and hotter droughts and a myriad of other threats, including diseases and more extensive and severe wildfires, are threatening to transform some of the world's temperate forests, a new study published in Science has found. Without informed management, some forests could convert to shrublands or grasslands within the coming decades. "While we have been trying to manage for resilience of 20th century conditions, we realize now that we must prepare for transformations and attempt...
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Tropical Forests Will Still Exist In 2100 But Will Be A Sorry Sight
2015-08-24 19:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: By the end of the century, the world's remaining tropical forests will be left in a fragmented, simplified, and degraded state. No patch will remain untouched - most remnants will be overrun by species that disperse well, which often means "weedy" plants like fast-growing pioneer trees and small rodents that thrive in disturbed areas. Most of the rest will be "the living dead" - tiny remnant populations of plants and animals hanging on with no future. There is no cast-iron law that dictates this...
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