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Carbon Mapping Peru Shows Natural and Manmade Variations

Benji Jerew — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 23:14:24 +0000

Carbon sequestration, according to some, could be key in reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide and the resulting greenhouse effect. Climate change scientists point to carbon, of course, as being the most prolific greenhouse gas in the last two hundred years, linked directly to our discovery and exploitation of fossil fuels. Aside from reducing or eliminating the […]

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Perversion of Justice – Chevron vs Ecuador

Benji Jerew — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 22:21:46 +0000

After decades of contamination, caused by Texaco (later bought by Chevron) extracting petroleum from beneath Ecuador’s rain forests, a judge in Ecuador rules against Chevron to the tune of $18 billion. On behalf of some 30,000 residents, whose lands are now, twenty years later, contaminated, a juryless court ruled against Chevron, who bought Texaco after […]

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Loss in Rainforest Could Lead to Drop of Hydropower Generation

Mila Luleva — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:00:31 +0000

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science earlier this week revealed that deforestation in tropical regions will lead to a reduction in hydroenergy output. Scientists explain that rainforests, especially in the Amazon basin, Central Africa and Indonesia, are not only responsible for controlling the carbon cycle, but they also play […]

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Rainforests Determine Global Atmospheric Circulation, Study Says

Mila Luleva — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 18:43:14 +0000

It is a well-known fact that wind is created due to differences in temperature- when warm air rises and it is replaced by cool one. What is not so well-known, however, is that winds that control atmospheric circulation are formed thanks to condensation of moisture, and a big part of this process occurs over rainforests. […]

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