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The world's forests are under assault from logging, climate change, pollution, pestilence, greed and desperation. Trees represent one of the most efficient climate stabilization mechanisms and one of the cheapest to implement. Trees sequester carbon and emit oxygen, when they are living. Killing a tree halts this process and causes it to work in reverse. As forests are burned or logged the trees are removed from service and those green house gasses, added to the already critical load, cause the planet to warm. The warmer drier climate that we, in the west, have recently experienced is causing a very large net loss of forest in this part of the country alone. This change from woodland to scrubland is altering the ecology significantly and indeterminately. For more info: An Infestation of the Imagination, U.S. Clears Test of Bioengineered Trees, Trees Shift Upslope As Climate Warms Up, Corrupt Government Enables Madagascar Deforestation, How Palm Oil Trade Causes Food Chain Destruction, Sudden Aspen Decline, Vilsack Announces $40M to Combat Bark Beetle Epidemic ,Invasive Worms Denude Northern Forests, Climate Change Imperils California Redwoods , California Cap & Trade Law Encourages Deforestation, Tundra Threatened as Permafrost Melts, Jane Goodall Discusses Deforestation, What You Need to Know About Biomass, Managing Forests for the Future, Combating Deforestation with Artificial Trees, Engineers Call for Artificial Trees to Reduce CO2 , World Losing Its Ability to Absorb Carbon-Dioxide, Forests and Oceans More Effective Then Carbon Capture Technology, Warming Cited in Big Aspen Die-off, Wildfires in West a Consequence of Climate Change, Wildfire, Climate Change and The Air Quality of the Future, Deforestation Threatens Water Cycle, The Most Studied Landscape on Earth, Forests Fall to Beetle Assault, Eco Terrorists destroying millions of acres of forest, Wildfires, Climate Change and the Media, Beetle Infestation Natural Event?, Bark Beetles Add an Uncertain Dynamic to Fire Control, Cattle Ranching Major Cause of Amazon Deforestation, Wildfires Speed Global Warming, Forests in a Warmer World, More and Larger Wildfires, The Tropics on Fire, Protected Forest's Fast Decline, It Will Only Get Worse, Western Forest Demise, Up In Smoke, Disappearing forests, Sierra Summit and UN Deforestation and Biofuel Conference
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All Content © 2007-2010 Grant Johnson
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