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Disturbed Tropical Forests Store Carbon But Are Slow to Regain Plant Biodiversity, Study Says
2013-11-06 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: In tropical forests that are regrowing after major disturbances, the ability to store carbon recovers more quickly than plant biodiversity, researchers from the U.K. have found. However, even after 80 years, recovering forests store less carbon than old-growth forests, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. This is likely because regenerating forests are often dominated by small, fast-growing trees and it may take centuries for larger trees, which hold more carbon,...
False Solutions for Forests: Biomass Energy, Sustainable Timber, and Carbon Markets
2013-11-06 11:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Friends of Earth: The global convergence Reclaim Power, along with the No REDD in Africa Network, have named this week a week of action against false solutions. We offer this blog post as a contribution to that effort. In the landscape of global deforestation, a tension exists between policies and practices aimed at drawing a sharp halt to the exploitation of forests and forest peoples and those designed to stimulate a vaguely promised market shift toward more 'sustainable' extraction of an ever-dwindling resource....
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East Himalayan forests turning brown: Study
2013-10-20 17:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times of India: In what appears to be another grim outcome of climate change, a study has found that forests in eastern Himalayas are gradually 'browning', with trees withering and foliage declining even during productive seasons. Similar changes were noted in tropical mountain forests across the world. Among the 47 protected areas across five biodiversity hotspots selected for the study, were Kangchendzonga national park in Sikkim and Namdapha national park in Arunachal Pradesh. It used satellite images from 1982...
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Climate Change Has Complicated Effects on Forests
2013-10-15 21:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: The most comprehensive review to-date of scientific papers on climate change effects on forests reveals a diverse set of consequences for forests across North America, according to researchers from Dartmouth University. Writing in the journal Ecological Monographs, the authors say their analysis of 500 scientific papers reveals that climate change is the source of insect outbreaks in forests, plant diseases, wildfires and other problems in forests, but also that warmer temperatures are making...
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New study forecasts over 25 percent depletion of world's forests
2013-10-10 09:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
All Voices: Forests worldwide will continue to slowly shrink before leveling out at a lower level, say researchers based at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, in a new study. Varied trends, mostly downwards in terms of forest cover, affect the world's forest from illegal logging in Indonesia, associated with palm oil production, causing horrendous smog hundreds of miles away in Singapore to natural phenomena like ash-dieback disease, currently affecting many established hardwoods in Western Europe....
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