Forest mapping from space supports Kyoto Protocol
...as reservoirs of carbon, so if countries plant new forests they can gain 'carbon credits' to offset against t...dioxide is released rapidly into the atmosphere if forests are burnt or cut down. At the ESA COP 9 side event, ESA Director of Earth Observation Jos Achache w...At AAAS: Biocomplexity panel on human-nature interactions
...Deadman, Indiana University: The long-ago frontier forests of Indiana and the current frontierforests of the Brazilian Amazon region are worlds apart, but thenatural systems of both are affected by factors of diversityamong the households within them. In a project led by ElinorOstrom, Tom P. Evans and others...Northwestern Memorial researchers study role of botanicals in management of menopausal symptoms
...-8400. Black cohosh is a wildflower native to forests in North America. It was an ingredient of Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, a patented remedy for "female complaints" that was popular in the early 1900s. It has been used for a variety of other purposes as well - for example, to treat snakebites. ...Siberian forest fires partly to blame for Seattle area violating EPA ozone limit
...ted that as climate warms, northern temperate-zone forests are likely to become drier during the spring and summer, with snow melting earlier in the year and creating an earlier and more prolonged fire season. The new research, Jaffe said, suggests a link between climate change, temperate-zone forest fires,...Envisat Symposium report day 2: GMES turns science to services
... same time, a space-based inventory of carbon-rich forests provides support for the Kyoto Protocol. All these activities are part of ESA's initial contribution to GMES a suite of 12 service portfolios known as the GMES Services Element (GSE), all related to public policy needs and linked to public institut...Envisat Symposium report day 3: Satellites supporting Kyoto - our future is in our forests
...estimating carbon flux, he revealed, because young forests in temperate regions actually emit more carbon tha...decade to achieve a carbon 'break even'. Growing forests are carbon sinks, but forests that are logged or burnt down become carbon sources. A team from Italy...ESA presents space solutions at post-Kyoto climate summit
... by stocking carbon in so-called 'sinks', of which forests are the most significant. Planting new woodland o...r. Conversely if a country is cutting parts of its forests for wood, or to make room for agriculture or urban expansion or they are burnt down then this is a...Charcoal and forest management could reduce greenhouse gas levels & save lives in Africa
...cally increasing pollution and decimating tropical forests would be an excellent way to achieve several of the United Nation's "millennium development goals," among them reducing child mortality, and ensuring gender equity and environmental sustainability, and to invest in development of the African continen...Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management
...cally increasing pollution and decimating tropical forests would be an excellent way to help achieve several of the United Nations' 'millennium development goals' at the same time. It also presents an opportunity for the developed world to invest in the African continent, as many promised at the January meet...