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In Beijing, deaths occurred mostly in areas wuth trees and lakes.
One day they found an ancient reptile with long ribs that enabled it to glide between trees.
If these were trees, we could grow more.
What could be achieved by planting more trees, cutting methane, or reducing black soot emissions?
If a poor family in subsistence farming receives no help during the year after a bad harvest, its members may eat their beasts of burden, cut down the trees that provide nutrients to the soil, sell whatever farming equipment they have, and even eat the seeds that were set aside for planting the following season.
Sometimes it is important to stop looking at the forest and focus on the trees.
After all, locals are more apt to invest in enclosures to protect their mature trees, while ignoring the need to tend to trees in village commons.
In essence, we are being told that we ought to cut emissions to zero, and to plant trees to achieve that, meaning that we would have to plant forests today on 30% more than all of the available land, and plant forests on almost two planets by 2030.
Instead of stating that they understand that Israeli must defend itself, the Bush administration should take an unambiguous stand against Israel's assassinations and collective punishments, which now include uprooting decades-old olive trees and destroying eight story buildings.
Deforestation is increasing, with almost 100 million hectares lost in the last decade alone - much of it due to millions of poor farmers in Africa and Latin America being forced to cut down trees because they have no other access to land or energy sources.
The 2010 flooding in Pakistan, for example, would have been far less devastating if so many trees from upper slopes had not been felled.
An invasive new species does not pose an immediate threat to the largest trees in the forest.
So why be critical when consumers choose to pay $12 for a pound of coffee that they know has been grown without toxic chemicals, under shade trees that help birds to survive, by farmers who can now afford to feed and educate their children?
BECCS begins by producing large amounts of biomass from, say, fast-growing trees which naturally capture CO2; those plants are then converted into fuel via burning or refining, with the resulting carbon emissions being captured and sequestered.
So farmers refused to plant trees, cashew processors refused to take their resources elsewhere, and urban workers refused to look for other jobs.
Moreover, bombs and grenades not only ignite buildings, but also grass, bushes, and trees.
Consequently, bushes and forests burn, reducing the stands of cedar trees – a symbol of Lebanon as much as the bald eagle is of the United States – by the day towards extinction.
Instead of investing in terraced fields, planting trees, and buying high-quality fertilizer, Africa’s farmers seek to maximize short-term profits.
In Ghana, farmers with strong land rights are 39% more likely to plant trees.
The plan working its way through the United States Congress (the Waxman-Markey bill) would initially give away 85% of the permits, impose a complex set of regulatory policies, and allow companies to buy CO2 offsets (e.g., by paying for the planting of trees) instead of reducing their emissions or buying permits.
Similarly, on a hot day, the air in a forest is cooler than over adjacent bare lands, thanks to evaporation and transpiration in the trees.
When trees and vegetation are cleared, heavy rainfall washes away the soil and destroys economic opportunities for local populations.
And, as a Kenyan maize farmer told me, “No trees, no rain.”
Indeed, farmers have always intuitively known what scientists are now confirming: trees and other vegetation can stimulate more rainfall.
The unstated assumption seems to be that, in contrast, some pristine force of economic nature drives stock markets in advanced countries, and that forecasting their performance is thus like forecasting the growth of trees.
One objective for Copenhagen should be to create a well-endowed global fund to support policies that discourage the cutting and burning of trees, help countries such as Brazil and Indonesia protect their rain forests, and provide alternative livelihoods to those who currently benefit from destroying them.
Reduction of the Amazon rainforest by fire adds to the problem of climate change in two ways: the fires themselves release gases and particles that accelerate the earth’s warming, and the elimination of the trees by definition means they cannot absorb carbon dioxide.
Removal of legal barriers to deforestation has added to the problem, as has a dearth of government resources to enforce the law and stop those who are illegally clearing trees and starting fires.
Soil depletion, along with aging trees and the increased risk of pests and disease, is threatening the livelihoods of the already-poor small farmers who produce the vast majority of the world’s cocoa and coffee.
Based on its recommendations, Peter began to replace his aging trees.
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