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Rainforests May Store Less Carbon As Climate Changes
2016-02-22 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Humans appear to be delivering one-two punches to tropical rainforests, with new research projecting that climate change will reshape how the ecosystems recover following logging. Scientists simulated how different trees in tropical rainforests will respond to prolonged droughts triggered by climate change, based on 14 years of data from Costa Rica study plots. Their findings suggest that profound changes lay ahead for these important ecosystems around the world, and that the changes may accelerate...
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Jane Goodall: Power of Corporations Is Destroying Worlds Rainforests
2016-01-15 16:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Jane Goodall is one of the worlds leading voices on climate change and environmental conservation. Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! had the chance to catch up with Goodall at the Paris climate summit last month. A renowned primatologist, best known for her groundbreaking work with chimpanzees and baboons, Goodall was at the summit to talk about saving the rainforest as a way to mitigate climate change. She shared with Goodman her thoughts on climate denial among the GOP presidential candidates, particularly...
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Deep ties between diverse tropical rainforests revealed
2016-01-08 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Tropical rainforests play a vital role in the well-being of our planet, soaking up carbon dioxide and helping stabilize the global climate. Understanding the science of rainforests--the "lungs" of the planet--is critical to maintaining the fragile balance of Earth's ecosystems. A study from a team of researchers at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, Princeton University, and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute reveals striking new findings about the structure...
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$135 Billion Export Trade in Forest Risk Commodities Continues to Destroy Rainforests
2015-11-18 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: The Global Canopy Programmes Forest 500, the worlds first rainforest ratings agency that analyses the most influential companies, investors and governments in the race towards a deforestation-free global economy, today launched its annual results. It revealed that while the corporate sector improved marginally overall, many laggards are yet to make public sustainability commitments. Commercial agriculture drives at least two thirds of tropical deforestation yet only 8% of all the 250 powerbroker...
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Save rainforests or will worsen climate change
2015-05-21 17:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A top conservationist has called on world leaders and environmentalists to urgently renew their focus on the state of tropical rainforests, arguing that the issue has dropped off the political agenda even though the world is not far away from a dangerous tipping point. Claude Martin, the author of a report on the precarious health of tropical forests and a former head of the WWF, said the world ignored the plight of forests at its peril, calling them vital to the future of humanity and stressing...
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