The Green Files > Climate Change in the News, Week of September 27, 2008
[Fresh Air. The Scent of Pine.] Assessing risks of climate change - Age, The (AU) (Sep 25, 2008); Climate-Change Program Gets New Funds and Home - NY Times (Sep 25, 2008); Cutting deforestation can fight climate change, reduce poverty and conflict - Mongabay (Sep 24, ...
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[Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed] Future threats to the Amazon rainforest: Mongabay: Between June 2000 and June 2008, more than 150000 square kilometers of rainforest were cleared in the Brazilian Amazon. While deforestation rates have slowed since 2004, forest loss is expected to continue for the foreseeable ...
[SolveClimate.com: Today's Climate Headlines] September 4, 2008: Solar companies' success in ramping up new production lines and factories could leave the fast-growing renewable energy market awash in solar panels next year, driving down prices and profit margins in the nascent industry. The recent move by this year's hottest solar market, Spain, to cut its cap on subsidies for new solar panels has sparked fears that big producers may see their selling prices drop by as much as 20 percent as they scramble to sell out their production.
[olyecology weblog] 406 - North American Tree News: 27) JOPLIN ” Models used to predict the impact of climate change suggest that the Ozark forest will change in the future, but they don't agree on what those changes will be. One forecast suggests the oak and hickory that dominate the .
[Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed] Britain, Norway commit $210 million towards Congo rainforest ...: added Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg "We believe that The Congo Basin Forest Fund is a good example of a mechanism by which developed countries can help shoulder the financial burden of developing countries making significant emissions reductions."
[olyecology weblog] 404 - Latin America / Forest-Type / World-wide Tree News: --World-wide: 28) Forests of the future is all about clean water instead fiber, 29) International Day Against Tree Monocultures, 30) “New” blueprint hammered out at a series of World Bank meetings, 31) World Rainforest Movement Bulletin, 32) Difficult to guarantee longevity of planted forests, therefore their expected carbon benefits, 33) Deforestation associated with plantation development is the biggest ecological impact, 34) How a green leaf makes UV shielding, 35) 20 Visually Arresting but Threatened Forests, 36) Extinction of ecosystem soundscapes: Human impacts on sonic ecosystems, 37) Study of symbiosis is the quintessential systems biology,
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