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Draft Recommendation Memo On Preservation Of Large Trees
2015-11-30 18:16:26| PortlandOnline
PDF Document, 111kbCategory: November 2015
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Urban Trees Provide Pollution Solution
2015-11-30 03:04:26| pollutiononline Home Page
Urban environments Down Under aren’t all that different than those in the United States. They also struggle with contaminated water running off and causing pollution. In response, cities often use natural landscapes of soil, grasses, and trees. These biofiltration systems capture and filter the runoff.
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Half of Amazon trees 'face extinction'
2015-11-21 00:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: More than half of all tree species in the Amazon face extinction, warn international scientists. According to new data, up to 57% of all Amazonian trees may already fit the criteria of being globally threatened. If confirmed, the estimates would raise the number of threatened plant species on Earth by almost a quarter. Forest cover in the Amazon has been shrinking for decades, but little is known about the impact on individual plant species. The trees at risk include iconic species like...
Amazon Trees Face Extinction Crisis, but There's Hope
2015-11-20 23:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: Deforestation adds up. New research finds that the Amazon region could lose more than half of its tree species by the year 2050 due to a combination of logging, agriculture, dams, fires, mining, climate change and human development. All told, at least 36 percent and as many as 57 percent of the Amazons more than 15,000 tree species should now be considered threatened with extinction, according to a paper published today in Science Advances. The paper, the work of 158 researchers from 21 nations,...
Shrinking Amazon forests may lose thousands of trees species
2015-11-20 20:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A first-of-its-kind examination of the Amazon's trees found that as many as half the species may be threatened with extinction or heading that way because of massive deforestation. Among the more than 5,000 tree species in deep trouble: the ones that produce Brazil nuts and mahogany. An international team of 158 scientists found that depending on the degree to which deforestation comes under control in the next 35 years, between 36 and 57 percent of the 16,000 tree species in the tropical rainforest...
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