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Alaskan boreal forest fires release more carbon than trees can absorb
2015-10-19 21:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A new analysis of fire activity in Alaska's Yukon Flats finds that so many forest fires are occurring there that the area has become a net exporter of carbon to the atmosphere. This is worrisome, the researchers say, because arctic and subarctic boreal forests like those of the Yukon Flats contain roughly one-third of Earth's terrestrial carbon stores. The research is reported in the journal Nature Climate Change. Alaska fire records go back only to 1939, and scientists often assume that present-day...
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Climate models may be wrong as fires cancel forest carbon sinks
2015-10-19 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Climate scientists may need to revise their predictions: instead of acting as carbon sinks, Earth`s northern boreal forests could start releasing carbon at a faster rate than they can capture it. Most global climate models treat these forests as storing about one-third of all terrestrial carbon in trees and, especially, in thick layers of peaty soil. Forest fires disrupt this storage temporarily, releasing carbon to the atmosphere until it can be recaptured by regrowth. The net effect of this...
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Grass fires in Caddo Parish threaten homes
2015-10-13 21:55:37| Railroads - Topix.net
The flames broke out around noon Tuesday along a set of train tracks near the 1700 block of Alabama Avenue and Chestnut Street. The fire stretches from Sun Valley Court to Caperton Street.
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Donald Trump Fires Back at Barry Diller: "Sad and Pathetic"
2015-10-11 09:13:47| Apparel - Topix.net
Following billionaire media mogul Diller recently saying that he will "either move out of the country or join the resistance" if Trump is elected president, Trump took to Twitter to share his own opinion of Diller. "Little Barry Diller, who lost a fortune on Newsweek and Daily Beast , only writes badly about me," Trump tweeted Saturday.
Indonesia's forest fires threaten orangutan habitat video
2015-10-07 12:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Shocking drone footage captured by Greenpeace field researchers shows extensive peat and forest fires burning in Indonesia. Greenpeaces footage was shot around the edge of the Gunung Palung national park, a major reservoir of biodiversity in Indonesia. It shows fires burning in the deep peat surrounding the national park and in nearby palm oil concessions the result of decades of illegal logging and deforestation for oil palm and pulp plantations
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