Climate impacts in northern forests
Northern forests hold around 54% of the world’s total terrestrial carbon stock and contribute more than one-third to our global terrestrial carbon sink. This report reviews the impact of human induced
Carbon Sinks
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Tanzania: Forest Conservation Pays in Manyara
COMMUNITIES from two villages of Mbulu District in Manyara Region have started leaping the benefits of their responsible forest conservation behaviour with a 38m/- pay check during the first six months
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Land-use protection for climate change mitigation
Land-use change, mainly the conversion of tropical forests to agricultural land, is a massive source of carbon emissions and contributes substantially to global warming. Therefore, mechanisms that aim
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Heterotrophic respiration in drained tropical peat is greatly affected by temperature?a passive ecosystem cooling experiment
Vast areas of deforested tropical peatlands do not receive noteworthy shading by vegetation, which increases the amount of solar radiation reaching the peat surface. Peat temperature dynamics and heterotrophic
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Brazil's Rainforests Releasing More Carbon Than Previously Estimated
As deforestation continues in tropical rainforests, more and more carbon is being released. Now, scientists have found that far more common has been lost than previously thought, which could affect models
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Destruction of Carbon-Rich Mangroves Costs up to US$42 billion annually - UNEP Report
Mangroves are being destroyed at a rate 3 – 5 times greater than the average rates of forest loss, costing billions in economic damages and denying millions of people the ecosystem services they need to
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UN climate summit pledges to halt the loss of natural forests by 2030
The Nature Climate Change journal has reported that Indonesia lost 840,000 hectares of natural forest in 2012 compared to 460,000 hectares in Brazil despite their forest being a quarter of the size of
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Ending deforestation is smart policy: officials
Policies to end deforestation are essential for curbing climate change and can also support economic development, top government and business officials said. "Putting a stop to deforestation is the
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Global carbon budget 2014
The 2014 Global Carbon Budget has been released ahead of the U.N. Climate Summit, showing that carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel burning and cement production increased by 2.3% in 2013 to new record
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A wood density and aboveground biomass variability assessment using pre-felling inventory data in Costa Rica
The high spatio-temporal variability of aboveground biomass (AGB) in tropical forests is a large source of uncertainty in forest carbon stock estimation. Due to their spatial distribution and sampling
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Warning over vulnerability of soil carbon to warming
The huge stores of carbon locked in the world's soils are more vulnerable to rising temperatures than previously thought. Researchers found that microbes in the soil were more likely to enhance the