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Malay citizens want govt spend more save native rainforests

2014-06-30 22:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: As developing countries reach upper middle income (UMI) status, their populations are willing to pay increasing amounts toward tropical forest conservation, yet government spending on these programs lags far behind, concludes Jeffrey Vincent of Duke University and colleagues in a study available today in the PNAS Online Early Edition. UMI countries contain some four-fifths of remaining tropical primary forest, and nearly half of the threatened endemic species found in tropical countries. Primary...

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Protecting rainforests could sequester eqivalent of a third of global emissions annually

2014-06-13 23:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Eliminating deforestation, peatlands and forest degradation, and forest fires in the tropics could reduce global carbon emissions by two billion tons a year, or nearly a fifth, argues a new study published in Global Change Biology. The research, authored by John Grace and Edward Mitchard of the University of Edinburgh and Emanuel Gloor of the University of Leeds, analyzed various emissions sources and sinks across the tropics. They found that carbon emissions from activities that damage and destroy...

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Report underestimated loss of carbon from tropical rainforests

2014-05-24 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: A soon-to-be-published report is set to say that the amount of carbon being lost by the degradation of tropical rainforests is underestimated. The new research says the current method of using satellites to assess tree numbers is ineffective at monitoring selective logging and fringe element deforestation. Lead author Dr Erika Berenguer from Lancaster University told the BBC, Its been completely overlooked. When we talk about deforestation, we completely remove the forest and all that carbon...

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Population growth and associated food demand to take heavy toll on rainforests

2014-01-16 02:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Mongabay: Human population growth and associated food demand will likely take a heavy toll on tropical ecosystems unless major shifts occur in how crops are produced and consumed, warns a new review published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution. Noting that projections published by the U.N. now forecast the human population to swell to 11 billion before the end of the century, William F. Laurance, Jeffrey Sayer, and Kenneth Cassman highlight potential impacts of agricultural expansion on biodiversity in the...

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