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2021-2025 Articles
Why the Global Area for Regrowing Trees is 71% Smaller than Thought 0625.rtfBig Bets on Speculative Carbon Capture Tech Ignore Today’s Solutions 0425.rtfClimate Change “Will Accelerate” Owing to Decline in Natural Carbon Storage 0325.rtfWeakening of global terrestrial carbon sequestration capacity under increasing intensity of warm extremes 0125.rtfHow Do You Save a Rainforest? Leave It Alone. 1124.rtfThe World’s Carbon Sinks Are on Fire 1024.rtfTrees and Land Absorbed Almost No CO2 Last Year. Is Nature’s Carbon Sink Failing? 1024.rtfGermany’s Forests Become Carbon Source After Years of Damage 1024.rtfSurf Breaks Are Hidden Weapon in Fighting Climate Change 0824.rtfWe Must Restore Nature to Avoid Global Catastrophe 0824.rtf - Policies advocated probably include aiding forest spread. It's a plea to look beyond just reducing CO2 emissions.Click for more2021-2025 Articles
Extreme Heat Is Wilting & Burning Forests, so It’s Harder to Curb Climate Change 0724.rtfThe Race to Map the World’s Forests and Protect $110 Billion of Trade 0624.rtfCanada Forests Haven’t Absorbed More Carbon than They Released since 2001 - 0519.rtfMega-Fires Are Spreading in the Amazon. They Are Here to Stay. 0224.rtfDeforestation Surged in 2022, despite Pledges 0623.rtfMore than 800 Million Amazon Trees Felled in 6 years, to Meet Beef Demand 0623.rtfDeforestation Inc. - How 'Green' Firms Prevent Climate Action 0323.rtfFinance Is Failing the World’s Best Defense against Climate Change 0223.rtfA $39 Trillion Investor Alliance Gives Warning on Carbon Offsets 0223.rtfHas the Amazon Reached Its ‘Tipping Point(s)’? Savannah? Scrubland? 0123.rtfMulti-Million $ Forest Regeneration Carbon Credits Yielded Fewer Trees 1122.rtfGlobal Deforestation Pledge Will Be Missed without Urgent Action 1022.rtfForest Loss in East Brazil Changes How Close the Amazon Is to a Tipping Point 0922.rtfEurope Is Sacrificing Its Ancient Forests for Energy 0922.rtfWildfires Are Destroying California's Forest Carbon Credit Reserves 0822.rtfHow Deforestation Is Pushing the Amazon toward a Tipping Point 0722.rtfAmazon Deforestation Hits New Record in Brazil 0722.rtfLet’s Not Pretend Planting Trees Is a Permanent Climate Solution 0622.rtfIn an Increasingly Warmer World, Trees Are Not a Climate Change Cure-All 0522.rtfClimate, Carbon-Cycle Effects of Fossil-Fuel Use vs Deforestation Disturbances 0522.rtfThe World Has Been Losing 10 Soccer Fields of Tropical Forest Per Minute 0422.rtfTropical Trees’ Growth and CO2 Intake Hit by M<ore Extreme Dry Seasons 0422.rtfAmazon Rainforest Hurtles toward a Tipping Point, Can't Recover from Droughts, Logging 0322.rtfTipping Points Passed? (4) Forests and the Amazon - a Faltering Carbon Sink 0122.rtfBrazil’s Cerrado Tracker Records 6-year Deforestation High 0122.rtfBrazil’s Amazon Hit by Worst Deforestation since 2006 - 1121.rtfHow Your 401(k) Is Helping Destroy the Amazon Rainforest 1121.rtfFor the Love of Peat - Our Best Defense against a Changing Climate 1021.rtfBrazil Reports Increase in Amazon Logging 1021.rtfRegrowing Forests Offset Only 10% of Amazon Deforestation’s CO2 Emissions 0821.rtfCerrado Desertification - Savanna Could Collapse within 30 Years 0721.rtfBolsonaro’s 1,000 km Amazon Railway Will Cause Climate Chaos. We Must Stop It 0721.rtfPlanting Trees “Doesn't Make Any Sense" in Fight against Climate Change 0721.rtf - Forests need to have a permanence of 100 years to be effective carbon stores. They don’t, with wildfires, drought, etc. Carbon sequestration underground is more durable. Plant trees in a smart way, not a monoculture. Etc.One of Canada’s Biggest Carbon Sinks Is Circling the Drain 0521.rtfA Climate “Solution” Actually Adds Millions of Tons of CO2 to the Atmosphere 0421.rtf - semi-phantom forest offsets in California: use average tree carbon / sq meter nin a zone, buy land that’s above average and take credit for the differenceWhy Dead Trees Are ‘the Hottest Commodity on the Planet’ 0421.rtf - Lumber prices tripled as pandemic’s stay-at-home workers want more DIY indoor space, but mountain pine bark beetles have decimated British Columbia forests, the prime home of lumber traditionally.Large-Scale Deforesters Emboldened under Brazil’s Bolsonaro, Data Indicate 0421.rtf - typical size of a newly deforested parcel grows , by a good bit, as enforcement is cut back and even disappearsParis Climate Agreement Overlooks Wood Pellet Loophole 0421.rtf - In Europe, wood pellets are deemed carbon neutral. However, it takes decades to recoup the carbon in new growth from trees that are felled. If the replanted trees survive fire and other hazards. Meanwhile, more carbon is in the air over the sooner years, when we most need to cut carbon in the air.Huge Forest Accounting Problem Could Hamper World’s Push to Cut Emissions 0421.rtf - Who gets credit for a forest preserved as an offset? Buyer, seller, both or neither? Many nations use different rules from independent evaluators. Large-emitting nations with large forests wind up with phantom benefits unless rules are changed.Tropical Forest Destruction Accelerated in 2020 - 0321.rtfWe’re Killing Those Tropical Trees We’re Counting On to Absorb CO2 - 0221.rtfTrees That Live Fast, Die Young, and Mess with Climate Models 0121.rtfNet, Land Absorbs Carbon Now, but It Could Emit It in Just a Few Decades 0121.rtf
2018-2020 Articles
2018-2020 Articles
Wave of Infrastructure Projects to Cause Widespread Deforestation in Coming Decades 1120.rtfShorter Lifespan of Faster-Growing Trees Will Add to Climate Crisis 0920.rtf‘Zombie Fires’ in the Arctic Pump Out Carbon at Record Pace 0720.rtfPlanting Non-Native Trees Accelerates Carbon Release Back into the Atmosphere 0620.rtfPlanting New Forests ‘Can Do More Harm than Good' 0620.rtfAsynchronous Carbon Sink Saturation in African and Amazonian Tropical Forests 0620.rtfMangrove Forests Won't Survive Expected Sea-Level Rise by 2050 if CO2 Emissions Aren't Reduced 0620.rtfDeforestation Boosts Brazil Greenhouse Gas Emissions, as Global Emissions Fall 0520.rtfAmazon under Threat - Fires, Loggers and Now Virus 0520.rtfForests Are Vanishing More Slowly, but Not Slowly Enough 0520.rtfWhy ‘Carbon-Cycle Feedbacks’ Could Drive Temperatures Even Higher 0420.rtfAmazon Rainforest Reaches Point of No Return 0320.rtfRecord-High Global Tree Cover Loss Driven by Agriculture 0320.rtfTropical Forests Losing Their Ability to Absorb Carbon 0320.rtfEarly Deforestation Numbers for 2019 Reveal Trends in the Amazon 0220.rtfWildfires Are Changing Canada's Boreal Forests 0120.rtfForest Loss Moves Swiftly, Once 50% Deforestation ‘Tipping Point’ Reached 0120.rtfParis Accord ‘Impossible to Implement’ if Tropical Forest Loss Not Stopped 1219.rtfTop Scientists Warn of an Amazon ‘Tipping Point’ 1219.rtfPreserving Western Forests Is Crucial in Fight against Climate Change 1219.rtfIn the Fight Against Climate Change, Not All Forests Are Equal 1019.rtf - Old growth are best; read this to learn why.Some Forests Are Not Growing Back after Wildfires, Research Finds 1217.rtfWhat Happens When the Amazon Forest Disappears? 1019.rtf - It becomes savanna, with frequent fires, cerrado treesAlaska’s Tongass Forest Eats a Ton of Carbon, but Trump Aims to Cut It Down 1019.rtf - Its 3 GT of carbon = 2 years’ US useWhy Keeping Mature Forests Intact Is Key to the Climate Fight 1019.rtf - soil carbon, US Southeast pellets feed Europe power plants‘It’s Really Close’ - How the Amazon Rainforest Could Self-Destruct 0819.rtf - 20-25% deforestation would drive runaway dieback, fueld by ever less rainfall due to less forest. 19.3% is Brazil’s government’s estimate of deforestation.If Carbon Offsets Require Forests to Stay Standing, What Happens When the Amazon Is on Fire? 0819.rtfWhat Indigenous Rights Have to Do with Fighting Climate Change 0819.rtfCharred Forests Not Growing Back as Expected in Pacific Northwest 0719.rtfCalifornia’s Drought Killed Almost 150 Million Trees 0719.rtfRainforest on Fire 0719.rtfWhy Carbon Credits for Forest Preservation may Be Worse than Nothing 0519.rtf - Many forest “offsets” may exist only on paper. Or worse, existing “offset” forests may be cut down for farming.Climate Change May Make trees Live Fast and Die Young 0519.rtfCanada's Forests Actually Emit More Carbon than They Absorb 0219.rtfEarth’s Ability to Take Up Carbon Could Decline after 2060 - 0119.rtfExtreme Weather Events Could Worsen Climate Change 0119.rtfHaiti May Lose All Primary Forest by 2035, Mass Extinction Underway 1118.rtfCongo Basin Rainforest May Be Gone by 2100 - 1118.rtfTropical Deforestation Now Emits More CO2 than the EU 1018.rtfScientists Say Halting Deforestation ‘Just as Urgent' as Reducing Emissions 1018.rtfDeforestation Continues to Climb in the Brazilian Amazon 0918.rtfSoggier Forest Soils Thwart the Uptake of Climate-Warming Methane 0818.rtfGrasslands May Be More Reliable Carbon Sinks than Forests in California 0718.rt
2015-2017 Articles
2015-2017 Articles
Sweeping New Estimate of How Much Humans Have Transformed Earth 1217.rtfTropical Deforestation Is Getting Bigger 1117.rtf - esp. in Indonesia & SE Asia, also S America outside BrazilWhy the Way We Manage the Carbon Bio-Flux Matters 1017.rtfRecord Amazon Fires Stun Scientists; Sign of Sick, Degraded Forests 1017.rtfWhy the Forest Carbon Sink Is Disappearing - Death by 1,000 Cuts 0917.rtfWorld’s Tropical Forests Are Huge Carbon Emission Source 0917.rtfDeforestation Has Double the Global Warming Effect as Previously Thought 0917.rtfBrazilian Court Blocks Abolition of Vast Amazon Reserve 0817.rtfWhat Indonesia Is Doing about Its Deadly Haze from Forest and Peatland Fires 0817.rtfA Nebraska-Sized Area of Forest Disappeared in 2015 - 0717.rtfPaying People to Not Cut Down Trees Pays Off, Study Finds 0717.rtfWar-Torn South Sudan at Grave Risk on Climate Change 0717.rtfDeforestation Soars in Colombia, after FARC Rebels' Demobilization 0717.rtfEurope's Contribution to Deforestation Set to Rise, despite Pledge to Halt It 0617.rtfDeforestation in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest Rose Almost 60% in the Last Year 0617.rtfEnding Land Clearing Would Compete with Renewables in Carbon Abatement 0517.rtfThe Strange Case of the Liana Vine and Its Role in Global Warming 0417.rtfAmazon Jungle Faces Death Spiral of Drought and Deforestation, Warn Scientists 0317.rtfAmazon Deforestation, Once Tamed, Comes Roaring Back 0217.rtfDeforestation Rises with Incomes in Developing Economies 0117.rtfWe Are Destroying Rainforests So Quickly, They May Be Gone in 100 Years 0117.rtfHumans Destroyed 7% of Earth’s Pristine Forest Landscapes Just since 2000 - 0117.rtfCarbon Deposit in Congo Peat Swamp = 20 Years of U.S. CO2 Emissions 0117.rtfLike U.S., Brazil Risks Falling Behind on Climate Change 1216.rtfAmazon Rainforest Destruction Is Speeding Up, When Earth Can Least Afford It 1216.rtfDeforestation Forces Up Brazil’s Carbon Emissions 1116.rtfAs Cities Warm, Trees Lose Some of Their Ability to Remove Carbon from the Air 1016.rtfIndonesian Islamic Council Issues Fatwa on Forest Fires 0916.rtfAlarming Number of Fires in the Brazilian Amazon 0916.rtfCosta Rica’s Tapirs Have Surprising Link to Climate Change 0916.rtf - Big frugivores spread seeds of largest tropical trees.Drought Shut Down Amazon Carbon Sink 0716.rtfCalifornia Redwoods Store More Carbon per Acre than Any Other Forests 0716.rtfDry Amazon Could See Record Fire Season 0616.rtfForest Fires Can Heat Up the Whole Planet 0616.rtf - Northern (boreal) forest fires put carbon in the air not only from standing trees, but also from peat, while they thaw permafrost, for still more carbon emissions.Norway Becomes 1st Nation to Ban Deforestation. How Will That Work? 0616.rtfSpike in Alaska Wildfires Is Worsening Global Warming 0616.rtfQueensland's Mangrove Ecosystem Dying in Secret 0516.rtfThese Tiny Mangroves Hold Vast Stores of Carbon 0316.rtfChina's Success Regrowing Its Forests Has a Flip Side - Deforestation Elsewhere 0316.rtfSatellite Data Suggests Forest Loss Is Accelerating 0316.rtfAfrica’s Forests ‘Threatened by Palm Oil Rush' 0216.rtfRainforests May Store Less Carbon as Climate Changes 0216.rtfGlobal Deforestation Is Decreasing. Or Is It? 0116.rtf - Contrast Indonesia (bad) with Brazil (mostly good).Indonesia’s Fires Blamed for Potent Greenhouse Gases 0116.rtf - CO2 from peat etc. exceeds CO2 emisions from Germany, Japan.Eliminating Large Fruit-Eating Animals Wrecks Tropical Forest Carbon Storage 1215.rtfAfter Errors, Congo Basin Forest Effort Restarts with New Scrutiny 1215.rtfDestruction of Brazil's Amazon Forest Jumps 16% in 2015 - 1115.rtfForests Are Key to Climate 1115.rtfForest Dieback Could Undermine U.S. Plans to Cut CO2 Emissions 1115.rtfIndonesian Fires Are Pouring Huge Amounts of Carbon into the Atmosphere 1015.rtfAlaskan Wildfires Could Make Global Warming Worse 1015.rtf - Soils, permafrost too.Rapid and Startling Decline of World’s Vast Boreal Forests 1015.rtfDeforestation Halved over Past Decades 0915.rtfTree Loss Slows, but Covers Area Twice the Size of Portugal in 2014 - 0915.rtfMassive Wildfires Transform Siberian Paradise (by Lake Baikal) into Disaster Area 0815.rtfEarth Is on Track to Lose an India-Sized Chunk of Tropical Forests by 2050 - 0815.rtfDrought Damages Trees' Ability to Store Carbon 0715.rtfHundreds of Millions of Acres of World's Forest Could be Lost by 2030 - 0415.rtfWorld's Plants and Soils to Switch from Carbon Sink to Source by 2100 - 0415.rtfCanada and Russia Beat Tropical Countries to Top Global Deforestation List 0415.rtfSubsidies to Deforesting Industries Worth 100 Times the Aid to Prevent It 0315.rtfIndonesia Defends Deforestation for Palm Oil on Economic Grounds 0315.rtfAmazon Forest Losing Carbon-Storing Capacity 0315.rtfBrazil’s Deforestation Rates Are on the Rise Again 0315.rtfAmazon Droughts Make 'Earth’s Lungs' Emit More CO2 Than They Capture 0315.rtfTropical Forests May Be Vanishing Even Faster Than Previously Thought 0215.rtf - satellite data vs national reportsScientists - No, We Can't Fight Climate Change by Burning Trees 0215.rtfZimbabwe Forests Under Threat 0215.rtfWestern Amazon Oil Boom Covers Chile-Sized Bloc of Rainforest 0215.rtfSouthern Forests' Ability to Suck Carbon From the Air May Be Slowing 0215.rtfObama's Climate Plan Could Threaten U.S. Forests 0115.rtfTropical Forests May Inhaling 1:3 of Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions 0115.rtf
Canada and Russia Beat Tropical Countries to Top Global Deforestation List 0415.rtf - Boreal forest fires grew more, bigger.
2014 Articles and earlier
2014 Articles and earlier
Tropical Deforestation Could Disrupt Rainfall Globally 1214.rtf - take #1 on studyTropical Deforestation Threatens Global Food Production 1214.rtf - take #2 on studyAmazon Peatlands Are ‘Most Carbon-Dense Ecosystem' 1214.rtfTropical Rainforests Not Absorbing as Much Carbon as Expected 1214.rtfIndonesia Cracks Down on Deforestation, in Symbolic U-Turn 1114.rtfNew Amazon Carbon Maps May Help Limit Deforestation 1114.rtfGlobal Meat Demand Plows Up Brazil's 'Underground Forest' 1114.rtfDrying Amazon Could Be Major Carbon Concern 1014.rtfIndonesian Deforestation to Continue, Amid Emission-Reduction Plans 0814.rtfCanada’s Boreal Forests Are Burning – and Releasing Loads of Carbon 0714.rtfIndonesia Surpasses Brazil in Deforestation Rate 0614.rtfRainforest Absorption of CO2 Becoming Erratic 0114.rtfIndonesia’s Forests Are Shrinking, Despite Reforms 1013.rtfHow Much Carbon Does a Tropical Tree Sequester? 0710.rtfNASA Map Reveals Tropical Forest Carbon Storage 0511.rtfUrban Sprawl Threatens Water Quality, Land Conservation Gains 1213.rtfEurope's Forests Nearing Carbon Saturation 0813.rtfEuropean Forests Near Carbon Saturation Point 0813.rtfUS Forest Fire CO2 Can Exceed Cars' 1207.rtf2002 Drought Cut N America CO2 Sink 50% 1207.rtfHeat Turns Plants from Sinks to Sources 0908.rtfAmazon Forest Flips to Be a Carbon Source 0409.rtfForests Dying in Western US from Warming 0409.rtfCanada Forests Become Carbon Source 0409.rtfForest Loss Slows 0310.rtfWorld Forest Area Still Declining 0812.rtfWe Can Reforest the Earth 0712.rtfWarming to Cut Carbon Sink in Western US 1207.rtfUS Forests Dying from Climate Change 0109.webarchiveTrees Absorb Less Carbon in Warming World Than Experts Have Assumed 0512.rtfSoybean Demand Attacks Amazon Rainforest 1209.rtfLand Plant Carbon Uptake Reverses 0810.rtfHow Beijing Is Shaping the Amazon 0213.rtfForest Change Risks Climate Goal 1211.rtfForest Biofuel Production Will Raise Carbon Emissions 1011.rtfEarth's Forest Carbon Sink Downsized 23% 1012.rtfDeforestation Appears to Rise Again in Brazil 0113.rtfDead Trees in Colder Areas Decay Only Slowly 0313.rtfClimate Talks Near Deal to Save Forests 1209.rtfClimate Change Could Shrink Amazon 85% 0309.rtfAmazon Forest Mostly Doomed 0809.rtfAmazon Deforestation Rate Down 45% 1109.rtfAmazon Deforestation at Record Low 1112.rtf2nd 100-Year Amazon Drought in 5 Years Emitted More CO2 than China 0211.rtfDrivers of Deforestation_Exec Sum 0611.pdfWestern Wildfires Impact on Carbon Balance 1207.pdfN America Drought Cuts CO2 Uptake 1207.pdf - 33 pp
N America Drought Cuts CO2 Uptake 1207.pdf
red is drier soil, blue is moister
"Net terrestrial summer flux (Net Ecosystem Production + fires for weeks 20-34) anomaly for the 2 extreme years of our estimate. 2002 has a strong positive summer flux anomaly, due to droughts. In contrast, 2004 showed high uptake during the summer. …1° x 1° [resolution].
Units are grams of carbon per square meter per year."
Note from graph of US Droughts by Severity on "No Water" page for 2000-13: the drought peaked in 2002 and wound down especially during 2004.
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