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Brazil: Experiment aims to steep rainforest in carbon dioxide
2013-04-23 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature: One of the wild cards in climate change is the fate of the Amazon rainforest. Will it shrivel as the region dries in a warming climate? Or will it grow even faster as the added carbon dioxide in the atmosphere spurs photosynthesis and allows plants to use water more efficiently? A dying rainforest could release gigatonnes of carbon into the atmosphere, accelerating warming; a CO2-fertilized forest could have the opposite effect, sucking up carbon and putting the brakes on climate change. Climate...
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Peru declares environmental state of emergency in its rainforest
2013-03-26 19:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Peru has declared an environmental state of emergency in a remote part of its northern Amazon rainforest, home for decades to one of the country's biggest oil fields, currently operated by the Argentinian company Pluspetrol. Achuar and Kichwa indigenous people living in the Pastaza river basin near Peru's border with Ecuador have complained for decades about the pollution, while successive governments have failed to deal with it. Officials indicate that for years the state lacked the required...
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Disney buys $3.5M in REDD credits from rainforest conservation project in Peru
2013-03-20 06:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The Walt Disney Company has purchased $3.5 million dollars' worth of carbon credits generated via rainforest conservation in Peru, reports Point Carbon. Disney bought 437,000 VCUs (verified carbon units) issued by the Alto Mayo Initiative, a project that aims to protect 2.8 million hectares of tropical forest in northeastern Peru. Alto Mayo is a joint initiative run by the Peruvian government and Conservation International. The credits are generated by reducing emissions from deforestation...
Protected areas successfully prevent deforestation in Amazon rainforest
2013-03-11 22:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Strictly protected areas such as national parks and biological reserves have been more effective at reducing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest than so-called sustainable-use areas that allow for controlled resource extraction, two University of Michigan researchers and their colleagues have found. In addition, protected areas established primarily to safeguard the rights and livelihoods of indigenous people performed especially well in places where deforestation pressures are high. The U-M-led...
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Evidence grows of rainforest resilience to global warming
2013-03-10 19:07:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The world's tropical forests are less likely to lose biomass, or plant material, this century due to the effects of global warming than previously thought, scientists said in a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience on Sunday. This adds to growing evidence that rainforests might be more resilient to the effects of climate change than feared. Tropical forests play an important role in the world's climate system because they soak up carbon dioxide and use it to grow leaves, branches...
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