News tagged with forest types

Production of biofuel from forests will increase greenhouse emissions

The largest and most comprehensive study yet done on the effect of biofuel production from West Coast forests has concluded that an emphasis on bioenergy would increase carbon dioxide emissions from these ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 23, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (11) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

New reports identify impacts of climate change on world's highest mountains

Findings from the most comprehensive assessment to date on climate change, snow and glacier melt in Asia's mountainous Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region -- site of Mount Everest and many of the world's tallest peaks -- highlight ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 04, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 7