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TROPICAL RAINFORESTS: Disappearing Opportunities
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Providing tropical forest news, statistics, photos, and information, rainforests.mongabay.com is the world's most popular rainforest site. [more] |
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A "tippy" climate - 1°F Warming per year at the Poles?
While a 3.6-5.4°F (2-3°C) increase in global temperature does not sound like much, such an increase would
have profound effects on sea levels, largely because most of the temperature increase would occur at the poles.
While equatorial temperatures would change little, if at all, Arctic and Antarctic temperatures could rise steeply.
In the past, the magnitude and rate of the increase in temperature change at the poles was staggering: ice cores
from Greenland suggest that 12,500 years ago temperatures increased 59°F (33°C) in 50 years.
Continued: Extinction
Unless otherwise specified, this article was written by Rhett A. Butler [Bibliographic citation for this page]
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Recent news
Amazon deforestation rate falls to lowest on record
(8/10/2007) Deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon for the previous year were the lowest on record, according to preliminary figures released by INPE, Brazil's National Institute of Space Research.
Lowland rainforest less diverse than previously thought
(8/9/2007) While rainforests are the world's libraries of biodiversity, species richness may be more evenly distributed in some forests than in others, reports an extensive new study by an international team of entomologists and botanists. The work, published in the current issue of the journal Nature, has important implications for forest management and conservation strategies.
Experts: parks effectively protect rainforest in Peru
(8/9/2007) High-resolution satellite monitoring of the Amazon rainforest in Peru shows that land-use and conservation policies have had a measurable impact on deforestation rates. The research is published in the August 9, 2007, on-line edition of Science Express.
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