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• PIT Ep 5: Big Foot

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 160
  PIT has wrapped up the asylum investigation and now they head outdoors to the forests of Central California. But it’s no vacation. A hiker has gone missing and there are multiple reports of a killer Big Foot roaming the hills. Art, Deuce, Pam, Lear and Clark are ready for their biggest challenge ever: riding ...
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• Useful Info about College Textbooks

  
  My Personal Finance — Authority: 129
  Are you in college or simply a retired clerk who either has to study or has time to study? All you need are the textbooks for developing your knowledge or scientific research monographs for becoming a specialist in the field. If you are a student you will have a chance to become a processional and build your career, ...
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• Google – the new eye in the sky for protecting forests?

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  Google looks set to play a part in a called-for "new environmental world order" by satellite-monitoring the rates of deforestation of tropical rainforests and pinpointing illegal logging and land misuse, Google’s Northern and Central Europe head Philipp Schindler has revealed. Schindler made the announcement in ...
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• Expert warns of potential conflicts from REDD scheme

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 562
  Adianto P. Simamora, The Jakarta Post 21 Nov 09;An expert has warned that the REDD emissions reduction scheme designed to protect forests could be prone to conflicts between rich and rainforest nations, including Indonesia, which could in turn threaten bilateral relations because of complicated mechanisms involved in ...
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• Google spyware will help vigilantes save rainforests

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 562
  Ben Webster, Times Online 20 Nov 09;Environmentalists across the world are to be enlisted as armchair detectives to monitor satellite images of rainforests and report any illegal logging.The images will be frequently updated and anyone with internet access will be able to make instant comparisons with historical ...
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• Model predicts future deforestation

  
  Carbon-Based — Authority: 486
  Anjali Nayar in Nature News : A computer model that predicts future changes in the worlds forests could strengthen the case of Central African nations that are calling for compensation in exchange for protecting their natural resources. Forest management is expected to be a key point of discussion at the United ...
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• GMs Money Trees

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  The supply of forests for offsetting pollution in developed countries is, potentially, almost infinite. There are an estimated 90 billion tons of carbon in Brazils forests alone, and billions of tons more are sequestered in Indonesia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, and other nations with ...
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• Computer model predicts future deforestation in Congo Basin rainforest

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  London, November 21 (ANI): Scientists have come up with a computer model that predicts future changes in the world’s forests, which has forecasted deforestation in the Congo Basin rainforest in the future.Forest management is expected to be a key point of discussion at the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen ...
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• Greenwash, blackwash: two faces of conservation evil

  
  ConservationBytes.com — Authority: 413
  Beware false prophets, and especially those masquerading as conservationists (or at least ‘green’) when they are not, in fact, doing anything for conservation at all . But this blog site isn’t about typical greenie evil-corporation-making-a-mess-of-the-Earth sermons (there are plenty of those); it’s instead ...
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• Forest Service says trees can slow climate change

  
  The Wilderness Sportsman — Authority: 138
  Lawmakers are looking at the role of forests in climate change, with the goal of including national forests as a key part of a climate change bill being considered by the Senate. “In my view, it is time to manage the nation’s forests to address climate change and unlock their potential,” said Sen. Ron Wyden, ...
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• ELECTOR RESPONSE FORM FOR CITY OF VICTORIA’S ‘JOHNSON STREET BRIDGE REPLACEMENT PROJECT’ Alternative Approval Process pdf

  
  CCC BLOG — Authority: 134
  FORTIN’S SEMI- FINAL 10% SOLUTION An Elector Response Form for the City of Victoria’s ‘Johnson Street Bridge Replacement Project’s alternate approval process,’  (AAP)  or ‘counter petition process’ in pdf format only is found in the Comments section below.   - Gregory Paul Michael Hartnell, ...
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• Forests Affected as Hideouts and Refuges

  
  Random graphic of the day: UNEP/GRID-Arendal Maps and Graphics Library — Authority: 128
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• New Geoengineering Idea: Turning Deserts into Forests

  
  The Dirt — Authority: 513
  Leonard Ornstein, a cell biologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and Igor Aleinov and David Rind, two climate modellers at NASA, argue that foresting the Australian outback and Saharan Desert would “solve climate change.” While numerous geoengineering schemes have been proposed to mitigate ...
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• European Paper Industry Cuts CO2 Emissions by 42% since 1990

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 630
  The European paper industry has reduced CO2 emissions per ton of paper produced by 42 percent since 1990, according to the Confederation of European Paper Industries’ (CEPI) fourth Sustainability Report (PDF).The paper industry was the only industrial sector to reduce emissions under the EU Emissions Trading System ...
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• U.S. pledges $275M to rainforest conservation

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 141
  The U.S. pledged $275 million to efforts to reduce deforestation in developing countries, reports Reuters.
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• Jungle Adventure part 2

  
  CERCOPAN — Authority: 110
  The third day was supposed to be the last and we looked forward to a shower and a tastier meal, but a lot of surprises and events were waiting for us in the hours that followed.   We left early, carrying our loads, which were thankfully lighter than the first day.  My shoes were dry from the fire, but this became ...
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• Dr. Elaine Oneil On Forest Management to Reduce Risks of Climate Change

  
  SOS Forests — Authority: 128
  On Wednesday, November 18, 2009, the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests, held a hearing regarding managing Federal forests in response to climate change, including for natural resource adaptation and carbon sequestration [ here ]. Witnesses ...
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• India questions climate change impacts on the Himalayan Glaciers: Nepal Silent

  
  Art Institute — Authority: 164
  On 9 November, "Himalayan Glaciers: A State-of-Art Review of Glacial Studies, Glacial Retreat and Climate Change," a report challenging climate changes impact on glacier retreat, was published by Indias Ministry of Environment and Forests on its website.
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• Jakarta halts deforestation in Sumatras Kampar Peninsula

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 562
  Yahoo News 19 Nov 09;JAKARTA (AFP) – Environmentalists claimed a small victory on Thursday after Indonesia ordered one of the countrys biggest pulp and paper companies to halt forest clearing in the Kampar Peninsula.Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan told reporters he had ordered Asia Pacific Resources International ...
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• Deforestation Rate Slows In Southeast Asia

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 562
  Sally Piri Brunei Direct 20 Nov 09;Bandar Seri Begawan - Southeast Asias average deforestation rate is likely to drop by 2.3 million hectare a year from 2000, an environmental activist said yesterday.And environmental group Greenpeace is urging governments to help bring the rate down to zero level by 2020, said ...
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