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Trees of life: tiny beetles turn Californian forests into tinder for energy
2016-06-19 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Californias record four-year drought has primed its coastal forests for a bug invasion. Millions of native bark beetles, which thrive in warm conditions, are burrowing into trees weakened by a lack of water, leaving in their wake dry, dead wood that becomes natural tinder. The beetles and drought have already killed off 29m trees, with tens of millions more expected to become casualties. Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), a California company, decided to turn the serious fire hazard into a source...
Deader Than Ever: California Forests Head Into Fire Season
2016-06-18 20:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
KQED: Roger Coigny has lived in the mountain community of Pinehurst for most of his 75 years. Hes seen a lot of changes, but nothing like the millions of Ponderosa pine trees here in the Southern Sierra Nevada that have died over the past two years. And the ones that die the quickest are the biggest, most beautiful, tallest and strongest, he says. The trees are stressed and dying after more than four years of unprecedented levels of drought, plus an infestation of bark beetles. Last summer,...
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EU politicians say no to forests as easy option for curbing emissions
2016-06-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Seven political groups in the European Parliament on Wednesday called on the European Commission to prevent nations such as a Poland using forests to try to escape from cutting emissions in other areas. Following the Paris climate change agreement in December last year, the European Union is about to begin what is expected to be a fierce debate on how to cut emissions across the 28-member bloc. Poland, which is heavily reliant on coal, has been promoting the idea of climate neutrality, rather...
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10 reasons to be optimistic for forests on World Environment Day
2016-06-05 04:11:04| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Its easy to be pessimistic about the state of the worlds forests. Rates of forest loss remain persistently high, especially in the tropics and boreal regions. Drought, fragmentation, degradation via logging, and climate change are conspiring to make forests more vulnerable to fire: vast areas of forest went up in smoke across Canada, Russia, the United States, Indonesia, Brazil, and the Congo Basin in the past two years alone. Expanding human population and rising meat consumption are fueling a...
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New weapons for Panama tribes in old fight save forests
2016-06-04 12:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Al Jazeera: Under the harsh light of a single bulb, with the jungle night dark behind him, Carlos Gomez held up a small, plastic globe and set it spinning. Thus began his first lesson in GPS, or global positioning system, to eight young Wounaan men in an open-air classroom in the Panamanian rain forest. The indigenous tribesmen had gathered in the village of Platanares in the Chiman district to learn to map illegal forest destruction on their customary land, among the most biodiverse rain forests on the planet....
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