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ENVIRONMENT


Fundación Jocotoco is an Ecuadorian organisation established to protect land of critical importance to the conservation of Ecuador's endangered birds and associated biodiversity. The Fundación achieves this by purchasing lands and managing them as private ecological reserves. ( ...+ )

DESTROYING NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS FOR BIOFUEL CROPS WORSENS GLOBAL WARMING
Turning native ecosystems into “farms” for biofuel crops causes major carbon emissions that worsen the global warming that biofuels are meant to mitigate, according to a new study by the University of Minnesota and the Nature Conservancy. The work will be published in Science later this month and will be posted online Thursday, Feb. 7.
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The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. ( ...+ )

CORAL REEFS MAY BE PROTECTED BY NATURAL OCEAN THERMOSTAT

The research team, led by NCAR scientist Joan Kleypas, looked at the Western Pacific Warm Pool, a region northeast of Australia where naturally warm sea-surface temperatures have risen little in recent decades. ( ...+ )

BIOMAS-TO-LIQUIDS: BRING THE FACTORY TO THE FOREST, NOT THE FOREST TO THE FACTORY ( ...+ )

NATURE AND BIODIVERSITY

SOIL EROSION Modern farming practices: a short term solution to soil erosion