sciencedaily.com - 3/8/2009
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ScienceDaily: The Amazon is surprisingly sensitive to drought, according to new research conducted throughout the world's largest tropical forest. The 30-year study, published in Science, provides the first solid evidence that drought causes massive carbon loss in tropical forests, mainly ...
News tagged with carbon
physorg.com 4/14/2009 — results timeline Amazon carbon sink threatened by drought Space & Earth / Environment created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 The Amazon is surprisingly sensitive to drought, according to new research conducted throughout the ...
Human Banner Formed to Defend Amazon Rainforest
ens-newswire.com 1/30/2009 — Quantcast Human Banner Formed to Defend Amazon Rainforest BELEM, Brazil , January 29, 2009 (ENS) - Indigenous people from across Latin America led more than 1,000 World Social Forum participants to form a human banner Tuesday, using their bodies to ...
Offset your carbon footprint by preserving the Amazon Rainforest
marriott.com 2/18/2009 — Why Preserve the Rainforest? Climate change — caused by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions — threatens species, biodiversity and life on Earth as we know it. According to Conservation International and other environmental experts, the ...
First look - Amazon Kindle 2.0
1greenproduct.com 2/13/2009 — In case you haven't heard, Amazon.com recently announced the upcoming February 24 release of its second-generation e-book reader: Kindle 2.What makes the Kindle 2 such an eco-friendly product? After all, isn't this just another electronic gadget that place additional demands on the electrical ...
How green is your in-sink garbage disposal?
supereco.com 2/23/2009 —
Insinkerator. Garburetor. The noisy chopping thing under your kitchen sink that eats food waste and (sometimes) wayward spoons. Is it green?
One word: not really. Okay, that's two words. But no, not green. The greenest thing you can do with your food waste is to compost it . Not the ...
Eco Friendly Books For Bringing in the New Year
greatgreengoods.com 12/30/2008 —
“Making a Living While Making a Difference: Conscious Careers in an Era of Interdependance, Revised Edition” by Melissa Everett gets lots of 5 star reviews over at Amazon for its usefulness as an informative guide to a working life built on principled choices.
$17.99 at Amazon ...
Organizing Under the Kitchen Sink
chezlarsson.com 3/10/2009 — 147 Above things have been fine. 022 Before Below is a different story. When we moved in ten years ago I quickly painted the insides of all kitchen cabinets including under the kitchen sink. At some point there was a narrow inset shelf to the left ...
Brazil: Land reform or deforestation boost for the Amazon?
globalvoicesonline.org 6/7/2009 — National land will be donated to Brazilians in a program called ‘Terra Legal' (Legal Land), a package of measures to boost the government-backed redistribution of land and to establish rules for those who have lived and cultivated national land ...
Norway offers $1 billion towards saving the Amazon rainforest
news.mongabay.com 3/6/2009 — mongabay.com September 17, 2008 Norway will donate up to a billion dollars to a Brazilian government fund that aims to protect the Amazon rainforest. The announcement, made by Tuesday Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, was expected. Norway has pledged ...
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