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Last December, a government report said deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon had fallen to its lowest rate for 22 years.
However, the latest data shows a 27% jump in deforestation from August 2010 to April 2011.
Rainforest Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrcU514z6nM
*THE ORIGINAL* rain forest rap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4bNrIIe0bk&feature=related
Viva Forever- Ferngully; The last rainforest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK-hEx4B_o0
Batty Koda's spastic breakdown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlhV1HPIQa4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FernGully:_The_Last_Rainforest
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Befriending a mentally unstable yet comical fruit bat named Batty Koda (Robin Williams) who has been experimented on by humans and now has wires and antennas fused into his head, Crysta heads to Mount Warning where she finds dead trees all marked with red aerosol paint crosses, which mark them for cutting. The camera then pans through the trees to reveal the source of the smoke, which turns out to be the exhaust from a huge tree leveler. She finds male humans, and accidentally shrinks one named Zak in trying to prevent him from being crushed by a tree. He gets stuck on a spiderweb on the tree that's just about to go through a tree shredder. She tries to get him off but can't when Batty swoops in, grabs them both off of the spiderweb and blames Crysta for her almost getting killed, because she did not listen to him.
Batty Koda raps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8yANE8xms0
http://news.mongabay.com/news-index/temperate%20forests1.html
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Tropical forests more effective than temperate forests in fighting climate change
(06/20/2011) Preserving forest cover and reforesting cleared areas in the tropics will more effectively reduce temperatures than planting trees across temperate croplands, argues a new paper published in Nature Geoscience.
Tropical forests more effective than temperate forests in fighting climate change
mongabay.com
June 20, 2011Tropical reforestation more effective than temperate afforestation for slowing global warming.
Rainforest tree in Panama. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler.
Preserving forest cover and reforesting cleared areas in the tropics will more effectively reduce temperatures than planting trees across temperate croplands, argues a new paper published in Nature Geoscience.
Using computer models, Vivek Arora and Alvaro Montenegro estimate that converting all the world's croplands to forests would reduce global temperatures in 2100 by only 0.45°C, a fraction of this rise forecast by scientists based on current emissions trajectories. The authors say their results indicate the importance of reducing greenhouse emissions rather than relying on afforestation in temperate regions.
"Afforestation is not a substitute for reduced greenhouse-gas emissions," they write.
But the authors find that reforestation in the tropics has a disproportionate cooling effect relative to tree planting efforts away from the Equator, but not because of carbon sequestration. Forests in far northern and southern regions absorb more sunlight than croplands, causing local warming. Meanwhile heat absorption by tropical forests is offset by increased water transpiration, which has a cooling effect.
The net of this means that afforestation in tropical areas is about three times more effective at reducing warming than afforestation in temperate zones.
Arora and Montenegro therefore conclude that protecting and expanding tropical forests is an especially worthwhile approach to helping mitigate climate change.
"Avoided deforestation and continued afforestation in the tropics are effective forest management strategies from a climate perspective."
Vivek K. Arora and Alvaro Montenegro. Small temperature benefits provided by realistic afforestation efforts. Nature Geoscience PUBLISHED ONLINE: 19 JUNE 2011 | DOI: 10.1038/NGEO1182
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