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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 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 February 2005 Megan Sever	Bugging Out with Warmer Weather If Earth continues to warm, especially in northern latitudes, insect outbreaks are more likely to occur, and potentially harm forests and affect the planet's carbon cycle.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Peter Fairley	Europe Looks to North America's Forests to Meet Renewable Energy Goals Emissions reductions, however, may prove smaller and slower than once expected
Geotimes May 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Yellowstone Fires Leave Microbes Nitrogen-Hungry Researchers hot on the trail of severe fires in Yellow-stone National Park have found that the nitrogen in forest soils can be greatly affected by such fires, which occur within the region once every few hundred years, and kill most of a forest's trees.
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.
Financial Advisor September 2011 Ellie Winninghoff	Go Hug A Forest Impact investors can foster change while earning handsome returns in one of the only asset classes where there's real growth.
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.
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.
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.
Outside August 2005 Peter Stark	The Tree Slayer What does a naive environmentalist discover when he buys his own forest? He's got to log it to save it.
Fast Company November 2008	Updates Texan forest carbon credits... Dirty Jobs reality TV show... Innovation in wine packaging...
IDB America July 2005 Roger Hamilton	Cutting a forest to save it A pioneering experiment in community forestry management in Peten, Guatemala.
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...
Geotimes August 2004 Naomi Lubick	New Explanations for Western Drought Arizona Wildfires Four separate fires raged across Arizona at the end of June and the beginning of July. The potential for fires across the West this summer was normal to above normal, exacerbated by the region's ongoing drought.
Outside July 2007 Amanda Griscom Little	Brain Storm It's not nice to fool Mother Nature, but as the mercury rises, a crop of weather-changing scientists want to try.
BusinessWeek August 26, 2010 Stuart Biggs	New Zealand Farmers Harvest Carbon Credits Growing trees can be more profitable than raising sheep.
Geotimes December 2006 Fred Schwab	Why Fester? Let's Sequester! Instead of looking toward another fossil fuel-based energy choice, scientists need to examine carbon dioxide sequestering, the capture and storage technology that removes anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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.
Geotimes July 2003 Lisa M. Pinsker	Watching the planet green A new generation of satellites is allowing scientists to, every week, watch the grass grow, literally. Combining data of vegetation density with digital data of global weather observations, they can see Earth's metabolism -- the rate at which plants are absorbing carbon out of the atmosphere.
Chemistry World February 7, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Biofuel Carbon Debt May Take Centuries to Repay Most biofuels may increase greenhouse gas emissions because clearing grassland or forest to plant them releases carbon dioxide.
Wired October 2004 Michael Behar	Rendering Inferno Fighting forest fires is increasingly being left to computers, with simulations taking wind, air temperature, humidity, altitude, terrain, and vegetation into account and producing 3-D animations that chart the most probable path of a wildfire.
Smithsonian March 2004 John F. Ross	Monkey in the Middle Blamed for destroying one of North Africa's most important forests, Morocco's Barbary macaques struggle to survive.
BusinessWeek November 19, 2009 Ben Elgin	A Big Loophole in Cap and Trade How companies may be rewarded under the cap-and-trade system for green projects they already had in the works.
Geotimes July 2005 Megan Sever	Carbon Leaching Out of Siberian Peat New research is showing that as temperatures rise across the Arctic, carbon once locked up in permafrost soils may begin escaping into the area's waterways.
Science News May 9, 2009	Science Past From The Issue Of May 9, 1959 Scientists predict 25% increase in carbon dioxide by the year 2000.
Chemistry World January 28, 2009 Nina Notman	Iron helps oceans capture more carbon A team of international scientists studying the role of iron in the storage of carbon under the ocean have confirmed that natural iron fertilisation increases the rate of carbon capture.
Geotimes May 2004 Sara Pratt	Ocean Anoxia Researchers are using microfossils to date ocean anoxic events, or severe oxygen depletion in the ocean, back to 132 million years ago. The findings will open up several new avenues of inquiry including the impact of the global carbon cycle perturbation on the biosphere as a whole.
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.
National Gardening Lance Walheim	How to Buy and Plant Trees Improve the health and longevity of your trees...
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Geotimes February 2005 Sara Pratt	Cicadas Speed Forest Growth The trillions of decomposing insects on forest floors across the eastern U.S. serve to fertilize the forests where they died.
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.
Chemistry World March 1, 2011 Elinor Richards	Chickpeas grow taller with carbon nanotubes Carbon nanotubes can enhance plant growth without damaging plant cells, say scientists from India.
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.
PC Magazine March 6, 2007 Dan Costa	Buy A Dell PC, Plant A Tree Today, you can send any Dell PC back to the company for recycling without paying a penny. If you buy a new Dell, the company actually sends someone to pick up your old PC.
Wired August 21, 2007 David Wolman	Eco-Capitalists Save Mother Nature By Charging for Her Services David Brand, founder and director of a forestry investment business, is buying forests now to make money in the future from their existence.
Chemistry World February 26, 2013 Holly Sheahan	Capturing the potential of carbon dioxide A team of researchers from the University of Bath have opened up the idea of using carbon dioxide as a useful potential feedstock; a useful chemical resource rather than a troublesome waste product.
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	Tomorrow's Amazon In the far western Amazonian state of Acre, a group of idealists is inventing a pragmatic, hard-nosed way to protect the rainforest.
Wired May 19, 2008	Inconvenient Truths: Get Ready to Rethink What It Means to Be Green It's high time for green causes to unite around the urgent need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
Chemistry World December 6, 2011 Jon Cartwright	Atmospheric carbon capture costs underestimated Capturing carbon dioxide from the air to mitigate climate change is likely to be too expensive to be practical, a new study suggests.
Chemistry World November 19, 2014 Rebecca Trager	Watching carbon dioxide's globetrotting New high-resolution simulations depicting how local geography affects the transport of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere have been created by NASA.
Technology Research News August 13, 2003	Carbon wires expand nano toolkit Scientists looking for building blocks to form electronics and machines that are not much bigger than molecules have gained a new tool.
National Defense February 2009 Grace V. Jean	Getting to the Bottom of Global Warming -- From Space The first of several satellites designed to monitor Earth's greenhouse gases has reached orbit and will begin collecting data in the coming months.
Chemistry World January 16, 2012 Yan Yan	China mulls tax on carbon emissions Following more encouraging sounds from the Chinese government at the UN climate change conference in Durban, South Africa, on reducing carbon emissions a proposal to levy a carbon tax is moving up the policy agenda.