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Why Burma's forests must be preserved
2013-11-28 01:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: For the first time in more than 50 years, a team of wildlife film-makers has been permitted to venture deep into Burma's barely penetrable jungles. The expedition's insect expert, Ross Piper, explains why the country's forests are special and, in his view, deserve protection. Closed to outsiders for five decades, Burma, also known as Myanmar, is something of an unknown quantity, particularly in terms of its natural riches. The country is right in the centre of the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot,...
Warsaw Climate Talks End With Deals on Forests, Financing
2013-11-25 00:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The UN Climate Change Conference in Warsaw ended on Saturday, 24 hours behind schedule, with organizers declaring that governments are still on track to agree on a universal climate agreement in 2015 that will come into force from 2020. "Warsaw has set a pathway for governments to work on a draft text of a new universal climate agreement so it appears on the table at the next UN Climate change conference in Peru. This is an essential step to reach a final agreement in Paris, in 2015," said Poland`s...
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Where Have All the Forests Gone?
2013-11-23 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Earlier this month, researchers published a report discussing global forest coverage. While that alone might not be eminently noteworthy, these findings were supplemented by a first-of-its-kind interactive mapping tool that was created in partnership with Google. In this TechNewsWorld podcast, we discuss the research with the study's lead author, Matthew Hansen.
World's Forests Show Decrease Photosynthetic Activity
2013-11-23 04:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Softpedia: An international collaboration of scientists argues in a new study that the world's forests have been undergoing a browning process for more than 20 years, and say that this process leads to a significant decrease in overall photosynthetic activity. Photosynthesis is one of the most important natural processes occurring anywhere on Earth. Through it, plants convert carbon dioxide from the atmosphere into oxygen, in the presence of light, water and nutrients from the ground. Without it, we would...
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Satellites reveal browning mountain forests
2013-11-22 18:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: In a dramatic response to global warming, tropical forests in the high elevation areas of five continents have been "browning" since the 1990s. They have been steadily losing foliage, and showing less photosynthetic activity. Scientists analyzed the forest cover by using satellites to measure sunlight bouncing off the surface of the earth, then determining the different surface types via reflection patterns. Areas with lush foliage where photosynthetic rates are high appear green, and areas with...
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