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Paper industry spends $170 million to convince you to kill more trees
2015-09-16 22:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: I recently received an email from a publicist with a small note below the signature: Save a tree, it said. Please don`t print this email unless absolutely necessary. LOL, I thought to myself. Why would I print an email promoting a sustainable pee funnel? Why would I print any email? Her note seemed like a relic from the early 2000s, when we weren`t yet used to reading everything on screens and people still owned printers. Now, however, most of us write on paper so rarely that our hands start to...
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More than trees why addressing poverty is critical to reforestation of the Amazon
2015-09-14 08:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: "Each year the Amazon rainforest is disappearing at the rate of an area equivalent to Belgium, Wales, ... so ran the headlines 20 years ago. Today, tropical deforestation is less of a headline grabber but the problem remains. Over the last 20 years, climate change has taken centre stage, although carbon sequestration of trees is widely recognised as a critical part of the solution. In Bolivia, the carbon sink of the Amazon continues to be deforested at an alarming rate, chiefly by large scale...
Potential Tools for Preserving Large Trees in Development
2015-09-08 22:16:30| PortlandOnline
PDF Document, 92kbCategory: September 2015
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OAC Preserving Large Trees Recommendations
2015-09-08 22:15:04| PortlandOnline
PDF Document, 97kbCategory: September 2015
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These trees can survive a forest fire
2015-09-08 16:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: When a wildfire ravaged nearly 50,000 acres of forest in Andilla, Spain, in 2012, experts were devastated by the loss. The area had been used for decades to study the effects of a pathogenic fungus on more than 50 types of Mediterranean cypress. However, when researchers arrived, they found that not all of the trees had been consumed. About 946 cypresses, surrounded by the burned remains of thousands of other trees, remained bright and green. "On our way to what we knew would be a Dante-esque scene...
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