Posted on 6 May 2009 by takecover08
A warming climate will fuel larger, more frequent wildfires in the Sierra Nevada and other parts of the West, and the fires will contribute to climate change, according to a new study reported in Insurance Journal.
More than 20 international scientists, in the report published in the journal Science, said fire is not only a consequence [...]
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Posted on 24 March 2009 by takecover08
Hundreds of thousands of flamingos and other wildlife are at risk after five forest fires erupted in Kenya on Saturday, say wildlife officials.
The BBC News website reports that police say they suspect some of the still-raging blazes were started by communities to make space for farmland.
The fires have had an adverse effect on [...]
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Posted on 25 February 2009 by takecover08
Severe fires in Indonesia – responsible for some of the worst air quality conditions worldwide – are linked not only to drought, but also to changes in land use and population density, according to a new study in Nature Geoscience.
“During the late 1970s, Indonesian Borneo changed from being highly fire-resistant to highly fire-prone during drought [...]
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Posted on 17 February 2009 by takecover08
The Indonesian government will allow developers to convert millions of hectares of land for oil palm plantations, reports Mongabay.com.
The decision threatens to undermine Indonesia’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from land use and fashion itself as a leader on the environment among tropical countries.
Gatot Irianto, head of research and development for the Agriculture [...]
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Posted on 11 February 2009 by takecover08
Amazonian forests may be less vulnerable to dying off from global warming than feared because many projections underestimate rainfall, Reuters reports.
A study by UK researchers suggested that Brazil and other nations in the region would also have to act to help avert any irreversible drying of the eastern Amazon, the region most at risk from [...]
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Posted on 30 September 2008 by takecover08
Devastating fires caused by climate change are threatening forests in Lebanon, in turn accelerating the pace of global warming, an environmental activist has warned.
“We are witnessing a rise in temperature which leads to the dryness of forest soil and pushes it towards desertification,” Sawsan Bou Fakhreddine, director-general of the Association for Forests, Development and [...]
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Posted on 10 August 2008 by takecover08
The number of forest fires on Indonesian Borneo has nearly doubled due to land clearing amid fears that hazy skies could return to the region, news agency AFP reports Indonesian official as saying.
Forest fires from Indonesia caused by traditional farming methods have been blamed for the choking haze that shrouds the region each year during [...]
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