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In The News

Source:
Institut de Recherche Pour le Développement

Date:
September 10, 2007

More on:
Rainforests, Ecology Research, Forest, Ecology, Nature, Trees

Refugia Of Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest Could Be Basis For Its Regeneration

Science Daily — During the last glaciation, which ended about 10 000 years Before Present (BP), the Brazilian Atlantic forest extended over all the eastern side of the country, covering more [...]

Ocean Conservancy Scientist Appears In The 11th Hour

Ocean Conservancy
Leonardo DiCaprio’s film explores environmental crises we face on Earth as seen through the eyes of prominent thinkers and activists
August 8th, 2007
Washington DC — Ocean Conservancy’s Senior Research Scientist, Wallace J. Nichols, appears in Leonardo DiCaprio’s environmental documentary film, “The 11th Hour,” to inform the film’s content on the issues of climate change and [...]

Missing Carbon Mystery: Case Solved?

Climate Crisis Coalition
Missing Carbon Mystery: Case Solved?
By Jane Burgermeister, Nature Magazine, August, 2007 Issue
“[Scientists have long been vexed by] the ‘missing carbon sink’, a billion tonnes of human-generated carbon assumed to be absorbed by northern forests, but unaccounted for in field studies. Scientists now say they have located the missing carbon in tropical forests that [...]

WWF Climate Change Overview

World Wildlife Fund Overview

Polar bear habitat is at risk
from the effects of climate change.
© WWF-Canon / Wim VAN PASSEL

Around the world, climate change is threatening not only individual species such as polar bears, tigers, salmon, penguins and corals, but it is also posing potentially catastrophic and long-term changes to the environment and people’s lives around [...]

Source: Climate Crisis Coalition The New Forest o…

Source: Climate Crisis Coalition
The New Forest of Indonesia - Oil Palm

This is the nursery for a new oil palm plantation. In the distance you can see the forest still standing. This nursery is smack in the middle of 30,000 hectares of primary forest that has been given as a concession to a PT Oil Palm [...]