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Clearing Forests May Transform Local and Global Climate
2013-03-04 12:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: In the last 15 years 200,000 hectares of the Mau Forest in western Kenya have been converted to agricultural land. Previously called a water tower because it supplied water to the Rift Valley and Lake Victoria, the forest region has dried up; in 2009 the rainy seasonfrom August to Novembersaw no rain, and since then precipitation has been modest. Whereas hydropower used to provide the bulk of Kenyas power ongoing droughts have led investors to pull out of hydro projects; power rationing and...
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Saving forests by putting a price on them
2013-03-04 02:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: During the 2013 SuperBowl, the championship game of the US National Football League, a truck company aired an advertisement that likened farmers to Gods favorite assistant. It suggested that when God needs something tough, or gentle, done, he calls a farmer. The narration, taken from a speech given to the Future Farmers of America in 1978 by Paul Harvey, a radio host, plays directly to the near mythical stature of farmers and ranchers in American culture and their deep connection to nature. This...
The challenge of putting Brazils forests in good hands
2013-02-28 06:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: People often associate Brazil with its forests. Its no wonder given that nearly 60% of the countrys territory is covered by forest and it holds about one-third of the worlds remaining tropical rainforests. You might assume that a country like this would care about educating people to sustainably manage this precious heritage. Well, youd be wrong! It is important to recall that Brazil has overcome decades of military intervention that framed the Amazon colonization in sovereignty terms, preaching...
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NASA: Climate change thins forests in eastern US
2013-02-27 00:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Years of drought and high temperatures are thinning forests in the upper Great Lakes and the eastern United States, NASA satellites show. Nearly 40% of the Mid-Atlantic's forests lost tree canopy cover, ranging from 10% to 15% between 2000 and 2010, according to a NASA study released this week. Other afflicted areas include southern Appalachia, the southeastern coast and to a lesser extent, the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada. "There has been a series of summers growing seasons for...
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Indonesia: Aceh Governor Wants to Allow More Logging in Protected Forests: Report
2013-02-13 08:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jakarta Post: Spatial zoning proposals for Aceh indicate that the provinces governor is seeking to open up more than 52,000 hectares of protected forest there to logging, a conservation group warns. In a report published on Tuesday, the group Greenomics Indonesia found that the spatial plans proposed by Governor Zaini Abdullah would change the status of vast tracts of protected forest to production forest. The report reveals that there are five large blocks of [protected] forest each more than 2,000 hectares...
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