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Russia's forests overlooked in climate change fight
2015-01-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Russia's forests may lose their power to help curb global warming without stronger domestic protection and a place in a new global climate change deal, scientists have warned. Russia has 19 percent of world forest reserves by surface area. But experts say the U.N. process drafting the climate change pact, due to be agreed at the end of 2015, has concentrated mainly on tropical forests. "Boreal forests are getting far too little attention in the U.N. climate talks," said Yury Safonov, a senior...
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Tropical forests may reduce global warming rate
2015-01-08 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: A new study led by NASA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) shows that tropical forests may be absorbing far more human-emitted carbon dioxide than many scientists thought. The study estimates that tropical forests absorb 1.4 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide out of a total global absorption of 2.5 billion, in response to rising atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gas. This means, if left undisturbed, the tropical trees should be able to continue reducing the rate of global...
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Commodity boom extracting increasingly heavy toll on Amazon forests
2015-01-06 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A commodity boom has helped pull millions out of poverty across South America over the past decade. It has also unleashed a new scramble for oil, minerals and cropland that is accelerating deforestation and fuelling a new wave of land conflicts from Colombia to Chile. Now, as prices for oil and other commodities slide, economists and environmental researchers warn that the loss of forest cover may be hastened, leading to new clashes as governments in the region try to maintain growth rates and...
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Tropical Forests May Be Giving Climate Extra Help
2015-01-04 18:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Truthdig: Scientists in the US say the worlds tropical forests may be making a much larger contribution to slowing climate change than many of their colleagues have previously recognised. A new study-led by the space agency NASA and the US National Center for Atmospheric Research, and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences -suggests that the forests are absorbing far more carbon dioxide from human sources than they are given credit for. It estimates that the forests are absorbing...
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NASA finds good news on forests & carbon dioxide
2015-01-03 01:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A new NASA-led study shows that tropical forests may be absorbing far more carbon dioxide than many scientists thought, in response to rising atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gas. The study estimates that tropical forests absorb 1.4 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide out of a total global absorption of 2.5 billion -- more than is absorbed by forests in Canada, Siberia and other northern regions, called boreal forests. "This is good news, because uptake in boreal forests is already slowing,...
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