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Can saving forests help feed the world?

Carbon release, storage by rainforests may increase by 50b tons for each degree of climate warming in the tropics

World Bank REDD+ forest carbon fund gets $180m injection

Biochar: a brief history and developing future

Climate Summit in Doha characterized by lack of ambition

Tropical deforestation emissions were 3 billion tons/yr from 2000-2005

Animals dissolving due to carbon emissions

Indonesia lost 8.8m ha of forest in the 2000s, generating 7 billion tons of CO2

World has lost half its wetlands

5 years in, debates over REDD+ continue

Organic farming keeps carbon out of the atmosphere

REDD+ must consider biodiversity, forest livelihoods to have any chance of success

Will we need to pull carbon out of the atmosphere to save ourselves?

Commentary: Protecting the people, not the polluters, says Greenpeace

Commentary: Greenpeace report threatens climate change mitigation and tropical forests

Greenpeace targets forest carbon offsets in California’s cap-and-trade

Mangrove deforestation 3x worse for climate than rainforest loss

Indigenous groups in Panama wait for UN REDD to meet promises

Madagascar gets biggest protected area

Earth’s ecosystems still soaking up half of human carbon emissions

Mangroves should be part of solution to climate change

165,000 sq km of Colombian rainforest mapped in stunning detail using lasers, satellites

Experts: sustainable logging in rainforests impossible

Scientists: iron fertilization could be a big climate help

Pre-industrial deforestation still warming atmosphere

Greenpeace calls for global REDD standards to reduce negative impacts of forest carbon projects

Deforestation accounts for 10 percent of global carbon emissions, argues new study

Challenges mount as forest carbon payment approaches move from theory to practice

Rio+20 and economic perils in Europe: opportunity for linkage

In Rio, 5 big companies to launch initiative to boost demand for REDD+ carbon credits

Warmer forests expel carbon from soils creating “vicious cycle”

Massive algae bloom in Arctic like “finding the Amazon rainforest in the Mojave Desert”

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