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Demand for rubber 'threatens forests'
2015-04-17 14:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The global demand for rubber tyres is threatening protected forests in Southeast Asia, according to a study. Tropical forests are being cleared for rubber plantations, putting endangered birds, bats and primates at risk, say UK researchers. By 2024, up to 8.5 million hectares of new rubber plantations will be needed to meet demand, they report in Conservation Letters. This could have a "catastrophic" impact on wildlife, they warn. Species such as the endangered white-shouldered ibis, yellow-cheeked...
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Bark Beetles Are Decimating Our Forests. That Might Actually Be a Good Thing
2015-04-07 17:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: There is an eerie feel to this grove of lodgepole pines that I can't quite put my finger on as entomologist Diana Six tromps ahead of me, hatchet in hand, scanning the southwestern Montana woods for her target. But as she digs the blade into a towering trunk, it finally hits me: the smell. There's no scent of pine needles, no sharp, minty note wafting through the brisk fall air. Six hacks away hunks of bark until she reveals an inner layer riddled with wormy passageways. "Hey, looky!" she exclaims,...
Archer Daniels Midland to demand suppliers stop chopping down forests
2015-04-01 01:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: While deforestation for soy production in the Brazilian Amazon has slowed since the establishment of a deforestation moratorium in 2006, clearing for soy has increased sharply in recent years in the Bolivian Amazon; Paraguay's Chaco, a dry forest ecosystem; and Brazil's cerrado, a savanna woodland. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. Agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE:ADM) will establish a zero deforestation policy for its global commodity supply chains, potentially forcing its soy, palm oil,...
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Agribusiness giant tells suppliers to stop cutting down forests
2015-03-31 21:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Today, the state of New York announced that, after negotiations with the global agribusiness conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland, ADM will adopt a no-deforestation policy for soy and palm oil. This is really freaking good news, and it comes at a critical time. There is some evidence that, after years of progress, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is increasing again. Meanwhile, people have been cutting down the forests just outside the Brazilian Amazon - in Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, and in...
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Deforestation Slowing, But Forests Are Breaking Down
2015-03-21 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The amount of climate pollution being produced every year by the felling of forests is falling worldwide, but benefits of the heartening decline are being eroded by the worsening conditions of the forests still left standing. The losses of entire stretches of forests, combined with losses of individual trees from forests that remain, pumped an average of 3.2 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year from 2011 to 2015, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization announced...
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