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Global warming wiped out the first rainforests
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 08, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Spectacular discoveries of fossil forests show that global warming wiped out the first rainforests to evolve on our planet.
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One-fifth of fossil-fuel emissions absorbed by threatened forests
Feb 18, 2009 |
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An international team of scientists have discovered that rainforest trees are getting bigger. They are storing more carbon from the atmosphere in their trunks, which has significantly reduced the rate of climate change.
All the carbon counts
May 28, 2009 |
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Cutting down forests for agriculture vents excess carbon dioxide into the air just as industrial activities and the burning of fossil fuels do. But whether policies to stabilize greenhouse gases in the atmosphere ...
'Living fossil' tree contains genetic imprints of rain forests under climate change
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Oct 30, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A "living fossil" tree species is helping a University of Michigan researcher understand how tropical forests responded to past climate change and how they may react to global warming in the ...
Put the Trees in the Ground: A solution for the global carbon dioxide problem?
May 13, 2008 |
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Of the current global environmental problems, the excessive release of carbon dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels and the related global warming is one of the most pressing.
Biofuel plantations on tropical forestlands are bad for the climate and biodiversity
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Dec 01, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Keeping tropical rain forests intact is a better way to combat climate change than replacing them with biofuel plantations, according to a new in-depth study by an international team of scientists, including ...
New fossil reveals primates lingered in Texas
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Oct 14, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- More than 40 million years ago, primates preferred Texas to northern climates that were significantly cooling, according to new fossil evidence discovered by Chris Kirk, physical anthropologist at The University ...
First-ever 'State of the Carbon Cycle Report' finds troubling imbalance
Nov 14, 2007 |
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The first “State of the Carbon Cycle Report” for North America, released online this week by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, finds the continent’s carbon budget increasingly overwhelmed by human-caused emissions. ...
Pacific Northwest forests could store more carbon, help address greenhouse issues
Jul 02, 2009 |
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The forests of the Pacific Northwest hold significant potential to increase carbon storage and help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in coming years, a recent study concludes, if they are managed primarily for that purpose ...
Canada's forests, once a help on greenhouse gases, now contribute to climate change
Jan 12, 2009 |
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As relentlessly bad as the news about global warming seems to be, with ice at the poles melting faster than scientists had predicted and world temperatures rising higher than expected, there was at least a reservoir of hope ...
Forests could flip from sink to source of CO2: study
Apr 17, 2009 |
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Forests that today soak up a quarter of carbon pollution spewed into the atmosphere could soon become a net source of CO2 if Earth's surface warms by another two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), cautions ...
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