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Climate change predicted to drive trees northward (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-03-2007 at 08:00:50
| Ranges may decrease sharply if trees cannot disperse in altered conditions
The most extensive and detailed study to date of 130 North American tree species concludes that expected climate change this century could shift their ranges northward by hundreds of kilometers and shrink the ranges by more than half. The study, by Daniel W. McKenney of the Canadian Forest Service and his colleagues, is reported in the December issue of BioScience. |
Indonesia plants trees to offset Bali emissions (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-03-2007 at 08:00:50
BALI, Indonesia (Reuters) - Indonesia has planted millions of trees to soak up an estimated 50,000 tons of greenhouse gases to be emitted during U.N.-led climate talks in Bali, Environment Minister Rachmat Witoelar said on Monday. More than 10,000 politicians, officials, activists and journalists are expected to attend the December 3-14 talks on the tropical resort island. Delegates will discuss ways to widen a U.N.-led fight against global warming to all nations. |
U.S. says seeks new climate deal, rejects Kyoto (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-03-2007 at 08:00:50
BALI, Indonesia (Reuters) - The United States said on
Monday it would seek a new global deal to fight climate change
after Australia's move to ratify the Kyoto Protocol isolated it
as the only developed nation outside the current U.N. pact.
"We're not here to be a roadblock," U.S. delegation leader
Harlan Watson said on the opening day of a December 3-14
meeting of almost 190 nations in Bali, Indonesia, seeking to
agree a roadmap to work out a successor to Kyoto which runs to
2012. |
Bali meet must spur investment (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-03-2007 at 08:00:50
BALI (Reuters) - Climate talks launched in Bali on Monday
must assure investors of future government backing for
climate-friendly energy and building projects, said the host of
the meeting, Indonesia's Environment Minister Rachmat Witoelar.
The talks in Bali, attended by some 190 countries, will try
and lay the foundations for a new climate change deal in time
to replace or extend the Kyoto Protocol from 2013. A key challenge will be to entice business to invest in
cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and prepare for climate
change. |
Australia steals show at Bali climate talks (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-03-2007 at 08:00:50
BALI, Indonesia (Reuters) - Australia won an ovation at the
start of U.N.-led climate change talks in Bali on Monday by
agreeing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, isolating the United
States as the only developed nation outside the pact. |
Climate change may wipe some Indonesian islands off map (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-03-2007 at 08:00:50
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Many of Indonesia's islands may be
swallowed up by the sea if world leaders fail to find a way to
halt rising sea levels at this week's climate change conference
on the resort island of Bali.
p> Doomsters take this dire warning by Indonesian scientists a
step further and predict that by 2035, the Indonesian capital's
airport will be flooded by sea water and rendered useless; and
by 2080, the tide will be lapping at the steps of Jakarta's
imposing Dutch-era Presidential palace which sits 10 km inland
(about 6 miles). |
Climate change predicted to drive trees northward (View Original Story)
Source: Posted: 12-03-2007 at 12:00:56
| Ranges may decrease sharply if trees cannot disperse in altered conditions The most extensive and detailed study to date of 130 North American tree species concludes that expected climate change this century could shift their ranges northward by hundreds of kilometers and shrink the ranges by more than half. The study, by Daniel W. McKenney of the Canadian Forest Service and his colleagues, is reported in the December issue of BioScience. |
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