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Battle for Survival May Yield the Rain Forests Diversity
2014-01-02 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The diversity of a tropical rain forest can be hard to fathom for people who have not seen one. Three acres of jungle may be home to more than 650 species of trees more species than grow in the entire continental United States and Canada combined. Its tempting to look at all those species living so close together as a picture of peaceful coexistence. But Phyllis D. Coley and Thomas A. Kursar, a husband-and-wife team of ecologists at the University of Utah, see them as war zones. Hordes of insects...
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Indonesia`s rain forest agency set to be in full swing
2013-12-30 10:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Antara: A new agency to protect Indonesias rainforests is ready to begin work to implement a first of its kind environmental program. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signed Presidential Regulation No. 62/2013 on August 31, 2013, entitled Managing Body for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), concluding a process that took more than two years. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, known as REDD+, is a UN-designed program to ensure that it becomes...
Rain Forest Warriors: How Indigenous Tribes Protect Amazon
2013-12-22 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The destruction of the Amazon in Brazil can be seen by satellite: Where logging roads have spread their tentacles and ranchers have expanded their grazing, all is brown. Beginning in the early 1980s, these photos from space lost more and more green, so that by 2004 the destruction seemed unstoppable. Brazil's deforestation rate had reached an alarming 27,000 square kilometers (nearly 17,000 square miles) per year. But stop it did-not everywhere, but at the borders of what appears from space...
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The Oregon Rain Garden Guide
2013-12-18 22:07:31| PortlandOnline
A step-by-step guide to landscaping for clean water and healthy streams PDF Document, 12,430kbCategory: Calendar, Newsletter, Fact Sheet and Other Resources
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St. Bernard air quality issues discussed by DEQ and Rain CII officials
2013-12-18 14:05:25| Waste Management - Topix.net
The Chalmette Vista monitoring station, which has picked up the majority of the sulfur dioxide overages.
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