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Climate Pact Sees Forest for the Trees

2015-12-11 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Climate Central: Even as climate negotiators labored Friday to finalize a pact to slow global warming, it was becoming clear that any new agreement would also help protect forests. A 27-page draft of a planned United Nations climate deal released late Thursday contained a subsection dedicated to the strategic role that forests and jungles could play as countries seek to reduce their impacts on the climate. Nations should "conserve and enhance' greenhouse gas "sinks and reservoirs,' Thursday's draft stated....

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Trees either hunker down or press on in drying and warming western US climate

2015-12-11 04:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

ScienceDaily: In the face of adverse conditions, people might feel tempted by two radically different options -- hunker down and wait for conditions to improve, or press on and hope for the best. It would seem that trees employ similar options when the climate turns dry and hot. Two University of Washington researchers have uncovered details of the radically divergent strategies that two common tree species employ to cope with drought in southwestern Colorado. As they report in a new paper in the journal Global...

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War on Plastics Will Be Won With Trees, Stora Enso CEO Says

2015-12-03 10:35:58| Paper - Topix.net

Within a decade, packaging made from tree and plant fibers could overtake the petrochemical variety, according to Stora Enso Oyj Chief Executive Officer Karl-Henrik Sundstroem. The Helsinki-based pulp mill operator has already spent billions shifting from the declining paper business to focus on innovative wrappings.

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