Sentences with phrase «study by the rainforest»

A study by Rainforest Action Network and International Rivers Network calculated that because Waxman - Markey would allow firms to meet their emissions reduction target by purchasing dubious «carbon offsets,» the bill would result in no emissions reductions before 2026 at the earliest.

Not exact matches

A 2015 study co-authored by the Rainforest Alliance established that the deforestation rate in the Forest Stewardship Council - certified community forestry concessions was nearly zero, as compared to an annual deforestation rate of 1.2 percent in the MBR overall and 5.5 percent in the reserve's buffer zones.

Source: 2012 third - party study commissioned by the Rainforest Alliance

According to the authors, since the 1970s, when studies conducted by Professor Eneas Salati demonstrated that the Amazon generates approximately half of its own rainfall, the question has been raised of how much deforestation would be required to degrade the region's hydrological cycle to the point at which it would be unable to support rainforest ecosystems.

«Reduced impact logging still harms biodiversity in tropical rainforests: Study looked at the impact of logging by examining its effect on forest dung beetles.»

The results of this orangutan study contribute to a larger Bornean biodiversity mapping mission co-led by Carnegie and the South East Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP).

The findings of the international study, reported by Simon Lewis of the University of Leeds, UK, mirror past discoveries of the huge carbon - absorbing ability of the Amazon rainforest.

In a new study, published in Global Change Biology, scientists from the Universities of Bristol, James Cook University, and Melbourne University in Australia tested the response of the tropical rainforest fly Drosophila birchii to a changing climate by transplanting flies in hundreds of cages along mountain gradients in north - eastern Australia, and measuring their reproductive success at different elevations.

Frustrated by the lack of a good study model, Krasnow and his colleagues turned to the mouse lemur and began conducting detailed physiologic and genetic studies on hundreds of these petite, docile creatures in the rainforests of Madagascar.

A study conducted by scientists in Brazil and the United Kingdom has quantified the impact that selective logging, partial destruction by burning, and fragmentation resulting from the development of pastures and plantations have had on the Amazon rainforest.

A two - decade study of rainforest plots in Panama and Malaysia recently concluded that local temperature rises of more than 1ºC have reduced tree growth by 50 per cent (see Don't count on the trees).

This study was supported by the UN Development Programme, Avatar Alliance Foundation, Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, Worldwide Fund for Nature, Morgan Family Foundation, Natural Environmental Research Council, and the Rainforest Trust.

According to the authors of the study, who hail from the Hemholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), assessments of rainforest loss has focused primarily on deforestation itself, estimating how much carbon is dumped back into the atmosphere by measuring how much forest was cleared away.

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The new study, titled «Projections of climate change impacts on central America tropical rainforest» was published in March 2017 in the journal Climatic Change by a team of researchers of the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center of Costa Rica (CATIE).

Another Amazon Drought Spurs Greenhouse Gas Emissions A severe drought last year in the Amazon rainforest outpaced a 2005 dry spell thought to be a once - in - a-century event, a new study finds By Lauren Morello and ClimateWire February 4, 2011 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=amazon-drought-spurs-greenhouse-gas

(02/27/2008) More than half the Amazon rainforest will be damaged or destroyed within 20 years if deforestation, forest fires, and climate trends continue apace, warns a study published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Reviewing recent trends in economic, ecological and climatic processes in Amazonia, Daniel Nepstad and colleagues forecast that 55 percent of Amazon forests will be «cleared, logged, damaged by drought, or burned» in the next 20 years.

(07/17/2013) 80 percent of the rainforests in Malaysian Borneo have been heavily impacted by logging, finds a comprehensive study that offers the first assessment of the spread of industrial logging and logging roads across areas that were considered some of Earth's wildest lands less than 30 years ago.

Indeed, a new study by John Bruno, a marine biologist at the University of North Carolina, and his colleagues has revealed that coral die - offs are more widespread and occurring faster than previously thought — at five times the rate of the rainforests» disappearance.

In what could easily be considered a worst - case scenario for the fate of the world's largest rainforest, a study led by Brazil's National Institute of Special Research found that the size of the Amazon could be reduced 50 percent by

Considering forest - threatening factors such as fires, deforestation, and the emission of greenhouse gases, the research found if the regions of the Amazon most crucial to maintaining the biome's climate are lost, large sections of the once lush rainforest may be reduced to a virtual desert.According to a report from Globo Amazônia, the study conducted by Gilvan Sampaio of National Institute of Special Research (INPE) found that the vegetation of the Amazon will be particularly impacted by rising global temperatures in the years to come, in addition to the continued threats posed by deforestation and fires.

Source: 2012 third - party study commissioned by the Rainforest Alliance

(07/18/2012) Already wracked by extensive deforestation and forest degradation, the future looks grim for Borneo's tropical rainforests, reports a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences.

The global rise in temperatures spurred by the intensifying impact of climate change may be stunting the growth of rainforest trees — disrupting their ability to store carbon dioxide — according to a new study.

This project learns from spiders by envisioning a series of interconnected webs that would allow scientists to study the rainforest without harming it.