by faster | Apr 25, 2020 | Blog
SOURCE: Inside Climate Change DATE: April 25, 2020 SNIP: Tim Brodribb has been measuring all the different ways global warming kills trees for the past 20 years. With a microphone, he says, you can hear them take their last labored breaths. During blistering heat...
by faster | Jun 11, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Washington Post DATE: June 11, 2018 SNIP: The baobab tree, sometimes called the “Tree of Life,” has an unforgettable appearance. Found in savanna regions of Africa, Madagascar and Australia, the trees form a very thick and wide trunk and mainly branch high...
by faster | May 2, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Mongabay and Environmental Research Letters DATE: May 2, 2018 SNIP: [Dr. Mary] Booth’s research — Not carbon neutral: Assessing the net emissions impact of residues burned for bioenergy, published this February in the journal Environmental Research Letters —...
by faster | Mar 13, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: Scientific American DATE: March 13, 2018 SNIP: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in its Fifth Assessment Report, presented more than 100 modeled scenarios that it said had a high likelihood of keeping global temperatures within 2 degrees Celsius...
by faster | Oct 23, 2017 | Blog
SOURCE: Think Progress DATE: October 23, 2017 SNIP: In 2016, the world’s forests lost more than 73.4 million acres of tree cover — an area roughly the size of New Zealand, and a 51 percent increase from the year before. Tree cover — considered any wooded area, natural...
