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Showing posts with label forests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label forests. Show all posts
Monday, March 29, 2010

Earth's Biggest Tree Rings Tell Fiery Tales

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The tree rings of 52 fallen giant sequoias, Earth's biggest trees, have revealed a 3,000-year-old history of droughts and fires. Hemera/...
Monday, January 25, 2010

Global Warming: 'Cooling' Forests Can Heat Too

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Pine forest. The simple formula we've learned in recent years -- forests remove the greenhouse gas CO2 from the atmosphere; therefore fo...
Monday, December 7, 2009

Scientists: Northern Forests Need Saving, Too

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From Live Science: When fire destroys forests, or when discarded wood products are burned at the dump, carbon dioxide (CO2) escapes into the...
Saturday, December 5, 2009

Greenhouse Gas Carbon Dioxide Ramps Up Aspen Growth

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Stand of quaking aspen. (Credit: iStockphoto/Doug Sims) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Dec. 4, 2009) — The rising level of atmospheric ca...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

As Farmland Grows, The Trees Fight Back

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A ripening barley field in Bourton on the Water in Gloucestershire, Britain Tim Graham / Getty From Time Magazine: Farms vs. forests — that...
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

World's Last Great Forest Under Threat: New Study

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Canadian evergreen forest. (Credit: iStockphoto/Stacey Newman) From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (Aug. 25, 2009) — The world's last remai...
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