When trees are felled to create solid wood products – such as lumber for housing – the wood retains most of its locked-up carbon, say scientists who suggest that previous climate models for carbon emissions from deforestation need revision. The new study, from the University of California, Davis, provides a deeper understanding of the complex […]
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Deforestation goes into hyperdrive with rising gold price
Deforestation around the Amazon River in Peru has increased six-fold in recent years as miners, driven by record gold prices, blast and clear huge tracts of lowland rainforest, according to a Duke University led study. Published in the journal PLoS ONE, the study used NASA satellite imagery combined with economic analyses of gold prices and […]