Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Amazon deforestation record low

  • Amazon Deforestation In Brazil Hits Record Low, Says Government

    BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest has dropped to its lowest level in 24 years, the government said Tuesday.

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  • Human Waste Deposits May Aid Understanding Of Climate Change, Scientists Say

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  • UN Climate Change Conference Opens In Doha, Qatar

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  • The growing impact and dangers of global warming

    This is primarily caused by putting more carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels and mass deforestation. The combination of ... In 1998, 2005 and 2007, dry and hot weather led to the Amazon rainforests nearly ...

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  • In Indonesia and Malaysia, as demand for palm oil grows, so do environmental ...

    Long a preferred cooking ingredient in developing countries, palm oil is now in greater demand in Western markets because of its low price and long shelf life. Derived from the fruit of oil palm trees, it can now be ... In 2011, the export of palm oil ...

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  • Soybean and livestock farming behind deforestation

    Using a combination of field surveys and observation by satellite, the INPA is proceeding with a project to accurately measure the amount of carbon held by the Amazon's forests. Through photosynthesis, trees ... Full-scale development at the mine began ...

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  • October 2012 Weather Makes It 5th Warmest Such Month On Record

    After setting a record low in September, sea ice extent doubled during October but still only managed to recover to the second-lowest extent on record for October, ranking just above 2007. In recent years research has shown there ..... Along with <a ...

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  • Global Carbon Dioxide Levels Hit New Record in 2011, Survey Shows

    The WMO, the United Nations' weather agency, said the three gases, which are closely linked to human activities such as fossil fuel use, deforestation and intensive agriculture, had increased the warming effect on the climate by 30 percent between 1990 ...

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  • Cooking Gas Revolution - Stakeholders Take Campaign to Rural Areas

    It is thus not surprising that rural areas record the highest use of traditional and wood fuel stoves. With less than one kilogramme per capita consumption, Nigeria ranks among the lowest liquefied petroleum gas consuming states in Africa despite its ...

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  • Brazil's Amazon rangers battle farmers' burning business logic

    Then comes the burning as fires are set every few hundred metres under the canopy, filling the skies with a haze and reducing the tall green forest to low grey ash. Next is the clearing. Bulldozers push the ash into heaps ... Some believe slower ...

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  • UN Says Growing Emissions Gap Threatens Global Temperature Goals

    The UN said yesterday that the level in the atmosphere of the three main greenhouse gases reached a record, and a Nov. 19 World Bank study ... "The sobering fact remains that a transition to a low carbon, inclusive green economy is happening far too ...

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  • Senate Lawmakers See Opportunity To Revamp Energy Policy

    The Non-.com Amazon. Along with <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/06/brazil-amazon-rainforest-deforestation-levels_n_1130554.html" target="_hplink">deforestation</a>, climate change also poses a serious threat to South America's Amazon ...

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  • Climate Change Threatens Pandas' Bamboo Food, Study Suggests

    The Non-.com Amazon. Along with <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/06/brazil-amazon-rainforest-deforestation-levels_n_1130554.html" target="_hplink">deforestation</a>, climate change also poses a serious threat to South America's Amazon ...

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  • Like a bathtub with the drain pulled

    The next week came the report about Great Lakes record low levels. As someone who ... It was published before Haiti was devastated by an earthquake, but made mention of its deforestation having an effect on possible future disasters. The climate map ...

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  • New Zealand's Green Tourism Push Clashes With Realities

    The report compares international data on criteria like habitat loss, greenhouse gas emissions, deforestation and protected marine areas.

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  • Hurricane Sandy Shows We Need To Prepare For Climate Change, Cuomo And ...

    NEW YORK -- A day after New York City experienced its worst storm surges in recorded history, Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the city may need to respond to climate change with steps like storm barriers.

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  • Climate Science in Lieu of Climate Action Is Unconscionable

    And beyond science, this is also what we see before our own eyes -- more frequent and more intense storms, flooding, sea level rise, record heat waves, drought, loss of sea ice and glaciers, crop failure, water shortages, wildfires, coral bleaching ...

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  • Mitt Romney Heckled: 'End Climate Silence!'

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  • A Climate Change To-Do List for the Next President

    If we needed any reminder of that fact, Hurricane Sandy should have provided it—especially coming on the heels of devastating drought, record-breaking temperatures through the spring and summer, and a record low in the extent of Arctic sea ice. What ...

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  • Weather Journal: Another Storm Possible Next Week

    As a footnote: Driven by a warmer-than-average June, the hottest ever July, and a warmer-than-average August, the summer of 2012 will go down in the history books as the third-warmest summer on record for the lower 48 states, the nation's second ...

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