Posts Tagged ‘deforestation’
Amazon basin shows signs of stress
UC SANTA BARBARA (US) — Human land-use activity has begun to change the regional water and energy cycles of parts of the Amazon basin. Continue…
Monday, January 23, 2012 11:52 - 1 Comment
Earth & Environment - Nov 23, 2011 12:40 - 0 Comments
Deforestation’s effects? Location, location
UC DAVIS (US) — The impact of deforestation on global warming varies with latitude, a finding that calls for revised climate-monitoring strategies, a new study shows. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Apr 22, 2011 16:52 - 6 Comments
Gold rush stripping Peruvian Amazon
DUKE (US) — Deforestation in parts of the Peruvian Amazon has increased six-fold in recent years, as small-scale miners, enticed by record gold prices, blast and clear the lowland rainforest. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Feb 7, 2011 15:04 - 1 Comment
Cocaine ravaging rainforest diversity
STONY BROOK (US) — Cultivating coca bushes—the source of cocaine—is accelerating the destruction of Colombian rainforests and further threatening the region’s plant and animal diversity. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Dec 1, 2010 10:55 - 1 Comment
Reforestation efforts a zero sum game?
STANFORD (US) — Forest restoration efforts in developing countries have been largely offset by the population’s growing demand for timber and agricultural products harvested elsewhere. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Aug 6, 2010 10:07 - 0 Comments
Growing exploitation of East Africa forests
U. LEEDS (UK)—Waves of deforestation like ripples in a pond have advanced 120 kilometers across East Africa in the past 14 years, according to new research. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Apr 19, 2010 11:33 - 0 Comments
Changes in Earth’s critical zone
U. PENN (US)—Rising high above the pristine northeast coastline of Puerto Rico, the lush Luquillo Mountains are a natural laboratory for environmentalists and climate scientists. A national forest since the 1930s, large sections of the mountains look much the same today as they would have to European settlers 500 years ago. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Oct 23, 2009 15:33 - 2 Comments
‘Fixable’ error undercuts climate laws
PRINCETON (US)—A group of scientists has issued a report identifying a critical—but correctable—accounting error affecting climate legislation that could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging deforestation. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Sep 22, 2009 11:21 - 2 Comments
In the tropics, outbreak and changing landscape
PENN STATE (US)—An international team of researchers is in Ghana as part of a five-year effort to investigate how changes in the environment affect a deforming tropical disease called Buruli ulcer. (more…)
