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Luxury hotel chain linked to destruction of rainforests
2015-05-19 07:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The Mandarin Oriental hotel chain has landed in environmentalists' crosshairs for the practices of its sister company Astra Agro Lestari, a rapidly expanding palm oil producer with fully developed plantations on an area larger than Singapore. The new She's Not a Fan campaign a play off Mandarin's celebrity-fan endorsement drive launched yesterday with a petition calling on Astra to stop destroying forests and elephant habitat and follow industry titans in pledging to purge its supply chain of...
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Partially Logged Rainforests May Emit More Carbon than Thought
2015-04-28 23:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: It is well known that tropical deforestation is just as costly as carbon pollution when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions. But while research has mostly focused on forests that have been completely mowed down, scientists are now saying that partially logged forests play just as crucial a role, and may emit more carbon than previously thought. That's at least according to a new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, which details how global carbon emissions from forests...
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Partially logged rainforests could be emitting more carbon than previously thought
2015-04-28 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Global carbon emissions from forests could have been underestimated because calculations have not fully accounted for the dead wood from logging. Living trees take in carbon dioxide whereas dead and decaying ones release it. Understanding the proportion of both is important for determining whether a large area of forest is a source of carbon dioxide, or a 'sink' that helps to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Forestry, agriculture and land-use …
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Climate change paradox: Rainforests are being felled... world is getting greener
2015-04-05 22:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The dramatic demise of the worlds rainforests has caused concern for years while they have been chopped down at breakneck speed to grow crops and rear cattle yet the planet has actually become greener in the past decade, with the total amount of plant coverage soaring. The rise in vegetation is the result of a major tree-planting campaign in China and unintentional increases in grasslands and non-tropical forests in former Soviet states, Australia and Africa, as heavy rainfall and abandoned...
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Scientists warn of global warming threat to temperate rainforests
2015-03-13 23:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: If you Google "rainforest," you're almost assured to get a page of search results mostly about the tropics. Yet, another kind of rainforest also exists: temperate rainforests. Far less expansive than the tropical kind, temperate rainforests occur in isolated patches and strips around the world from the coasts of western North America and eastern Siberia, to throughout much of New Zealand and Tasmania. In a new study published recently in Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences, researchers warn...
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