Telegraph (UK)Â Â Â Â Â Â December 17, 2006 Italy’s woodlands dying due to climate change <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/12/17/eaitaly117.xml> By Michael Day in Milan Italy’s woodlands are already dying as climate change starts to bite in southern Europe, experts warn. A report represented to the Italian government said that eight out of 10 trees across Italy’s… Continue reading
Science News Online Week of Dec. 15, 2007; Vol. 172, No. 24 Prairie Revival ; Researchers Put Restoration to the Test Leslie Allen It took less than a century after John Deere unveiled his steel-bladed plow in 1837 for the North American prairie to all but disappear. For 20 million… Continue reading
——————————————————————————— ” …Â the voracious power of today’s global economy, which has created a situation in which the world is not just getting hot, it’s getting raped.” —————————————————————————————- NEW YORK TIMES It’s Too Late for Later By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: December 16, 2007 Bali, Indonesia – The negotiators at… Continue reading
Kenneth J. Feeley, S. Joseph Wright, M. N. Nur Supardi, Abd Rahman Kassim and Stuart J. Davies. Decelerating growth in tropical forest trees. Ecology Letters (2007) 10: 461-469 Abstract The impacts of global change on tropical forests remain poorly understood. We examined changes in tree growth rates over the past… Continue reading