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Does planting trees usefully offset carbon emissions?
26.07.2006 from Climate Change Action blog:
People running forestry offsets are 'well intentioned but, in my opinion, misguided'.
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Related topics/regions: [Climate change]
Image: Does planting trees usefully offset carbon emissions?
Amazonian scene
24.07.2006 from Climate Change blog:
The Amazon is now entering its second year of drought, making it ripe for 'mega-fires'.
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Related topics/regions: [Brazil] [Climate change]
Image: Amazonian scene
17.07.2006 Përkundër shumë kundërshtimeve nga organizatat mjedisore në Kosovë si dhe nga grupet opozitare në të kaluarën edhe në seancën e sotme, Kuvendi i Kosovës, ka vendosur me shumicë votash që të vazhdojnë punimet për ndërtimin e Qendrës Administrative Protokollare në Gërmi.
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Related topics/regions: [Kosovo] [Environment] [Biodiversity] [Pollution] [Soils]
14.07.2006 Metsäpaloja on tänä kesänä syttynyt poikkeuksellisen paljon kuivan ja lämpimän sään takia. Etelä-Suomen metsien monimuotoisuusohjelmalla suojellaan Palaneita metsiä. Palaneen puun myyntiarvo on vähäinen, mutta metsäpaloilla on tärkeä osa luonnon monimuotoisuuden säilymisessä, painottaa WWF-Suomi.
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Related topics/regions: [Finland]
11.07.2006 Luonnonsuojelujärjestö WWF:n aktiivit kunnostavat parhaillaan 50-vuotisjuhlaansa viettävää Linnasaaren kansallispuistoa. Suojelualue koostuu yli 130 saaresta, joissa aktiivit ovat puuhastelleet metsän, luontopolkujen ja niittyjen parantamiseksi. Tänä kesänä WWF järjestää vielä kolme talkooleiriä, Haminassa, Ahvenanmaalla ja Virossa.
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10.07.2006 THERE used to be a dire prediction that Nepal was going to become desert. This seemed quite logical amid a dangerous phenomenon occurring then in which the crucial forest cover was going through a massive clearance for fuelwood, fodder and money-earning timber. But despite the foretelling of the worst, nothing of the dire scale happened. The conservation successes of Nepal proved the dangerous prediction false.
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Related topics/regions: [Nepal] [Population] [Poverty] [Conservation]

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