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Temperate Forests

• The management of natural coastal carbon sinks

  The IUCN report, The Management of Natural Coastal Carbon Sinks, launched at the climate change and protected area summit in Granada, Spain. The first in-depth study revealing the latest science of marine ecosystems, such as seagrass meadows, mangroves and salt marshes, shows that they have a much greater capacity to progressively trap carbon than land carbon sinks, such as forests.

  • 01/11/2009

  • IUCN
  • • Marine Ecosystems
    • Mangroves
    • Corals
    • Tropical Forests
    • Temperate Forests
    • Carbon Dioxide
    • Climate Change
    • Carbon Sinks
    • Carbon Sequestration
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  Is lebelling wood good ?

  The North and South disagree on classifying logged timber.

  • 14/01/1993

  • Down To Earth
  • • Forests
    • Temperate Forests
    • NGO
    • Developing Countries
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  Western expansionism caused more carbon emission

  THIRTY years of deforestation in the temperate regions has caused more pollution than 140 years' use of forests in the tropics. When' temperate forests were cut down in the 19th century by the

  • 14/06/1992

  • Down To Earth
  • • Agriculture
    • Temperate Forests
    • Deforestation
    • Carbon Dioxide
    • South Africa
    • United States Of America (US)
    • Australia
    • New Zealand