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Scientific American
August 2008
Keren Blankfeld Schultz |
Wildfires May Improve Forests' Ability to Sequester Carbon When saving trees means less carbon storage.   |
Geotimes
February 2006
Naomi Lubick |
Trees Confound Global Warming The potential canceling-out effects of trees' low reflectivity for carbon sequestration raise questions as to whether tree planters should get carbon credits in North America, as outlined in the Kyoto Protocol. |
Geotimes
October 2005
Megan Sever |
Carbon's Complicated River Ride Researchers recently found that carbon moves from the atmosphere, through trees, soil and water, and back into the atmosphere in fewer than five years, indicating that the landscape is not providing as much long-term storage of carbon dioxide as hoped. |
Popular Mechanics
January 26, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Scientists Use Massive Crane to Study Troubled Forests From Above In a study released in last week's Science researchers surveying forests of the American West found that trees are dying at an ever-increasing rate. |
Geotimes
April 2005
Michael Glantz |
What Makes Good Climates Go Bad? Climates are constantly changing in both linear and nonlinear ways and over the course of life on Earth, organisms have either adjusted to those changes or perished. |
BusinessWeek
July 17, 2006
John Carey |
Business On A Warmer Planet Rising temperatures and later winters are already costing millions. Here's how some companies are adapting to the new reality. |
Smithsonian
December 2006
Marian Smith Holmes |
Interview: Margaret Lowman Bugs in trees and kids in labs get their due in the new book, It's a Jungle Up There, by pioneering forest ecologist "Canopy Meg." |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2006
Paul McFedries |
Changing Climate, Changing Language That humans are having a negative effect on the world's climate is almost universally regarded as a fact in scientific circles, but global warming stubbornly remains in the realm of fantasy in some political and business circles. |
Finance & Development
March 2008
William R. Cline |
Global Warming and Agriculture If steps are not taken to curb carbon emissions, agricultural productivity could fall dramatically, especially in developing countries. |
Geotimes
September 2003
Greg Peterson |
Weathering climate change Policy-makers looking to curb future increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide, could turn to a simple plan: Plant trees. |
Geotimes
April 2007
Carolyn Gramling |
Wallace Broecker: Changes in the Atmosphere An interview with an expert on issues of climate change about his experiences advising politicians about the consequences of climate change and his hopes for new technologies of carbon sequestration. |
Smithsonian
March 2004
Lawrence M. Small |
From the Secretary - World View Panama offers an ideal vantage point for scientists to see the big picture of life on earth. The forests and coral reefs of the tropics are the world's most biologically diverse ecosystems. |
Wired
May 19, 2008
Matt Power |
Old-Growth Forests Can Actually Contribute to Global Warming Forests actually give up more carbon from decomposing wood than they lock down in new growth. |
Geotimes
September 2004
Megan Sever |
Slower Cooling in Oregon New research suggests that the climate in Oregon slowly cooled over 6 million years as a result of evolving grasslands pulling carbon dioxide out of the air and locking the carbon into the soil. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2007
William B. Gail |
Climate Control We will be able to engineer the Earth to our liking -- but we'd better start now. Before we picked a climate, we would need to evolve the political, commercial, and academic institutions to get us there. |
Geotimes
August 2003
Greg Peterson |
Hubbard Brook: Making Watershed Links The wollastonite addition at Hubbard Brook is the latest chapter in a rich history of large scale manipulations aimed at understanding how human disturbances impact forests. |
Fast Company
November 2000
Ian Wylie |
'We Recycle Your Air.' Social entrepreneur Dan Morrell is targetting a massive and complex environmental problem: global warming. But his solution is deceptively simple: The way to save the planet is one tree at a time... |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2008
Sandra Upson |
Loser: Algae Bloom Climate-Change Scheme Doomed Planktos's ploy to combat global warming by sequestering carbon in the oceans holds no water. |
Geotimes
November 2004
Naomi Lubick |
Past warming for the future As the Bush administration prepares for a second term, only time will tell how its climate change policy will change in the next four years. In the meantime, discussions of the science behind climate changes abound in the journals and within the scientific community. |
Smithsonian
August 2006
Michael Tennesen |
Uphill Battle As the climate warms in the cloud forests of the Andes, plants and animals must climb to higher, cooler elevations or die. |
Popular Mechanics
June 12, 2009
Jerry Beilinson |
Climate Change Solutions: Live From World Science Festival 2009 The roundtable session, called "Carbon Conundrum," took place in front of an audience of about 150 on day two of the World Science Festival. |
Geotimes
September 2006
Lee Gerhard |
Testing Global Warming Hypotheses Global climate change has been a natural phenomenon driven by natural processes for 4.5 billion years. Nevertheless, cultural pressures exist to identify a human cause for current global climate change. |
Chemistry World
February 2007
Helen Pilcher |
Living on Credits Carbon rationing isn't just a personal fancy. A growing band of UK politicians and scientists are touting it as the fairest and most practical way to cut emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane. |
Outside
June 2003
Douglas Gantenbein |
We're Toast Last summer, U.S. wildfires cost $1.6 billion to stop and claimed the lives of 23 firefighters. The expense and sacrifice did nothing to solve the problems of overgrown forests, misguided policies, and misspent resources. We need to get serious about rethinking the role of flame in the woods. |
Mother Jones
June 2000
Ted Williams |
False Forests What's green, full of trees, and worse than a clearcut? Vast pine farms, which are rapidly replacing the woods with a new kind of Southern plantation. |
Finance & Development
December 2009
Hamilton & Fay |
A Changing Climate for Development Climate finance can provide the resources developing countries need to mitigate and adapt |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2010
Paul McFedries |
Technically Speaking: Hacking the Planet There's plenty of controversy swirling around the idea of climate intervention -- and no shortage of new words |
TIME Asia
June 20, 2011
Brendan Brady |
Battle of the Jungle Sorng Rukavorn is one of 13 community forests in Cambodia's Oddar Meanchey province -- spread over a total of 68,000 hectares -- being registered with climate-change groups as a bank of carbon credits. |
Wired
May 19, 2008
Alex Steffen |
Counterpoint: Dangers of Focusing Solely on Climate Change To have any hope of staving off collapse, we need to move forward with measures that address many interrelated problems and not just focus on carbon. |
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