TAKE ACTION! Kenya has recently approved plans to destroy some 20,000 acres of the globally important and ecologically sensitive
Tana Delta for sugar and biofuel production [search]. Covering 130,000 hectares, these wetlands' diverse riverine vegetation -- forests, swamps, dunes, beaches and ocean -- will be forever altered by widespread...
Continued
industrial forestry [search] in combination with
surging greenhouse gas emissions [search] are forming a vicious cycle, whose
climate/ecosystem positive feedbacks [search] are destroying more forests while releasing carbon. We know
deforestation changes climate [
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The extent to which
wetlands are responsible for climate change [
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wetlands [search] contain 771 billion tons of greenhouse gases, one-fifth of all the carbon on Earth, equal to the amount of carbon now in the atmosphere. And now we learn that...
A first of its kind global assessment has found
one third of reef-building corals face extinction because of climate change [
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ark]. Climate change brings rising water temperatures and more intense solar radiation, which leads to coral bleaching and disease, often exacerbated by nutrient rich water run-off from denuded lands. Together...