Tag: deforestation
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Carbon Offsets Could Create Loophole for Industry to Pollute as Usual
The denuded clearing is on a tract of private forestland owned by timber giant Sierra Pacific Industries that is close to being approved as a sort of carbon bank under California’s new cap-and-trade scheme. It will soon grow into a plantation …
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No-Win Situation for Agricultural Expansion in Amazon
Published today, 10 May, in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters, it shows that deforestation will not only reduce the capacity of the Amazon’s natural carbon sink, but will also inflict climate feedbacks that will decrease the productivity of pasture and soybeans.
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Ecology and Economy and Management of an Agro-Industrial Amazon Frontier
According to Michael T. Coe, Senior Scientist at The Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) and one of the issue’s co-editors, “One important finding presented in these papers is that landowners respond quickly to external and internal forces, particularly signals from government and market forces to be better land stewards.”
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Bioenergy From Cleared Forests A Climate Killer
When wood from cleared forests is used to produce bioenergy, the climate impacts are more dire than if the wood is used for lumber, UC Davis researchers say. Thank you for your interest in this story. To read the rest of it, please visit EarthTechling…