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Australia: Coalition vows to lead G20 in new rainforest protection strategy
2013-08-30 10:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Coalition has pledged to lead the G20 in a new global rainforest protection strategy despite committing itself to taking the unusual step of removing a world heritage listing for parts of Tasmania's forests. Greg Hunt, the Coalition's environment spokesman, told Guardian Australia that, if elected, he wanted to help cut by 50% the 8bn tonnes of annual CO2 emissions caused by deforestation. "This won't be something that happens overnight, of course, but it's certainly something to work...
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Ecuador sparks outcry over plan to drill in rainforest
2013-08-18 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: Environmental groups here and indigenous lawmakers threatened over the weekend to take Ecuador's government to international court over a plan to drill for oil in a protected part of the Amazon rainforest. Late last week, President Rafael Correa said the government was abandoning a plan it announced six years ago to refrain from drilling for oil in the rainforest area if the world came up with $3.6 billion to offset some of the foregone benefits of the oil money. The leftist president said just...
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Brazil sends more inspectors to Amazon rainforest
2013-08-15 21:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Brazil's environment minister says the government has increased the number of its inspectors in the Amazon rainforest to help halt a rise in illegal deforestation. Izabella Teixeira said Thursday at a deforestation seminar that the number of government inspectors in the region was upped to combat a new tactic by loggers, who are stripping smaller areas that are more difficult to detect by satellite. She didn't say how many inspectors have been deployed since the beginning of the year. Teixeira...
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Old-growth trees store half rainforest carbon
2013-08-07 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Large trees store store up to half the above-ground biomass in tropical forests, reiterating their importance in buffering against climate change, finds a study published in Global Ecology and Biogeography. The research, which involved dozens of scientists from more than 40 institutions, is based on data from nearly 200,000 individual trees across 120 lowland rainforest sites in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It found that carbon storage by big trees varies across tropical forest regions, but...
Pope Francis and the Amazon Rainforest
2013-07-31 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: In response to Pope Francis Amazon-themed speech to Brazilian bishops, World Wildlife Funds Dekila Chungyalpa, Director of WWFs Sacred Earth program, issued the following statement: "We're grateful that Pope Francis is adding his influential voice to the growing number of faith leaders around the world who are recognizing the importance of protecting our planet from environmental harm. And we're especially thankful he's urging young people to be problem solvers on behalf of the entire planet...
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