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• Himalayan glaciers not melting: study

  
  Art Institute — Authority: 153
  NEW DELHI: A study released by the Indian Ministry of Envireonment and Forests said on Monday the Himalayan glaciers were not shrinking at the rate that scientists led the world to believe and that global warming was not the cause of the melting of any glacier in the mountain range.
  7 hours ago

• The Genesis of Old-Growth Forests

  
  SOS Forests — Authority: 125
  Note: due to the crush of work I have accepted recently, I do not have time to prepare new posts for the next week or so. The following is a repost from May, 2008 [ here , here , here ]. by Mike Dubrasich Iain Murray, the author of The Really Inconvenient Truths: Seven Environmental Catastrophes Liberals Won’t ...
  14 hours ago

• On Our Radar ...

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 744
  Why the G.O.P. loves nuclear energy and other energy and environment news from around the Web.
  16 hours ago

• Study Finds More Value in Peat CO2 Credits

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  Carbon-rich peatlands may trap more greenhouse gases than first thought, driving up their potential value on the carbon market, according to a new study, reports Reuters.Huge amounts of greenhouse gases are released when peatlands are logged or drained for agriculture, and even more when the dried bogs catch fire and ...
  22 hours ago

• Brazilian Wind Power Gets a Boost

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 744
  The Brazilian government will soon hold its first wind-only energy auction, as the nation tries to diversify its energy portfolio beyond hydropower.
  1 day ago

• Not ready for REDD?

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 583
  Esteve Corbera and Manuel Estrada, Science Alert 9 Nov 09;It is clear that any effective international deal on climate change must decrease emissions from deforestation and land-use change that represent about a fifth of all emissions. An international mechanism to fund such reductions, reducing emissions from ...
  1 day ago

• Nibbles: Forest fires, integration

  
  Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog — Authority: 479
  Fire-fighters should heed forest diversity . Now there’s a thought. “Resilient integration of industrial and organic agriculture.” Now there’s a thought.
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• Hunting across Southeast Asia weakens forests survival, An interview with Richard Corlett

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  A large flying fox eats a fruit ingesting its seeds. Flying over the tropical forests it eventually deposits the seeds at the base of another tree far from the first. One of these seeds takes root, sprouts, and in thirty years time a new tree waits for another flying fox to spread its speed. In the Southeast Asian ...
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• Group Wants Fed Dollars to Buy North Woods Land

  
  As Maine Goes — Authority: 142
  The Great Maine Forest Initiative would include seeking federal funding and targeted public acquisition to conserve property. Read More... read more
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• NYT > World: Ecosystem in Peru Is Losing a Key Ally

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 469
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Peruvians pose what might be a final challenge to the ecosystem supported by the giant huarango tree, which is coveted as a source of charcoal and firewood.
  2 days ago

• Southeast Sulawesi deer population dwindles

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 583
  The Jakarta Post 7 Nov 09;The population of deer (Cervus timorensis) in the Rawa Aopa Watumohai National Park (TNRAW) in Southeast Sulawesi has declined significantly in the last 16 years, a member of park management staff says.The number of deer at the park was now less than 1,000 from around 33,000 in 1993, ...
  2 days ago

• Planting trees can shift water flow

  
  Carbon-Based — Authority: 143
  Ana Belluscio in Nature News : Planting trees, which can significantly help to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide, nevertheless comes with potentially damaging side effects. According to two new studies, planting forests in areas that currently dont have trees — a process called afforestation — can reduce the local ...
  2 days ago

• Ecosystem in Peru Is Losing a Key Ally

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 141
  Peruvians pose what might be a final challenge to the ecosystem supported by the giant huarango tree, which is coveted as a source of charcoal and firewood.
  2 days ago

• Fast targetted traffic required to picture site by picgeezer

  
  Pro Freelance Projects — Authority: 177
  I require fast targeted traffic for one of my websites which is a gallery of different pictures of oceans, sun, sky, forests, etc… (basically just natural environments). This is a 3 month project, if you cannot commit to this, please do not bid… (Budget: $750-1500, Jobs: Advertising, Bulk Marketing, eMarketing, ...
  2 days ago

• Get into national parks, forests free Nov. 11

  
  OC Deals — Authority: 487
  To extend a general “thank you” for those who served our country, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior has announced that all public lands managed by the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management and Bureau of Reclamation will be free of admission charges on Veterans Day, ...
  3 days ago

• Shrinking forests in Johor a threat to ecosystem

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 583
  KC Chan, The Star 7 Nov 09;JOHOR BARU: Shrinking forests due to land clearing for economic activities will not only affect the ecosystem but will also lead to water shortage problems, Malay­sian Nature Society Johor branch chairman Maketab Mohamed said.“If the forest is cut down, it will seriously affect the ...
  3 days ago

• Daytime labourers depleting forest reserve wildlife at night

  
  wildsingapore news — Authority: 583
  Martin Carvalho, The Star 7 Nov 09;MALACCA: Authorities are probing claims that foreign construction workers building the state Wildlife and National Parks Department centre next to the Tanjung Tuan forest reserve are involved in poaching activities.Wildlife and National Parks Department deputy director-general ...
  3 days ago

• USFS Opens Forest Landscape Restoration Website

  
  SOS Forests — Authority: 125
  We reported three days ago [ here ] that Title IV - Forest Landscape Restoration of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 has finally been funded by Congress, to the enormous tune of $10 million (the Act called for $40 million per year). Considering that they spend $2 billion a year on wildfires, and ...
  3 days ago

• Animal Kingdom this is not!

  
  Mom~E~Centric — Authority: 135
  Just a quick note about a new contest…..16 x 20 [...] Animal Kingdom this is not! is a post from: Mom~E~Centric
  3 days ago

• Agriculture, food & climate change

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 133
  Lessons from the Green Revolution ; Green Revolution: Curse or Blessing? ; Agriculture & Food ; (International Food Policy Research Institute) Agriculture and climate change: An agenda for negotiation in Copenhagen ; Global Treaty on Climate Change ; Climate Change (that is, Global Warming) and ...
  3 days ago

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