Posts Tagged ‘greenhouse gas’
Earth & Environment - Wednesday, January 13, 2010 16:19 - 0 Comments
Future Forests: Beyond 2200

Unlike managing agricultural systems, which can adapt to change quickly, “with a forest, the lifespan is 100, 200 years, so once you do something it’s longer term. We need to be making policies now that will affect our forests hundreds of years from now,” says researcher George Gertner. (Courtesy: iStockphoto)
U. ILLINOIS—The composition of some U.S. forests might be quite different 200 to 400 years from today, a new study suggests. Continue…
- Warmer temps stifle trees’ carbon uptake
- Little global warming goes a long way
- Don’t blame cows for climate change
- CO2 not the only gorilla in the room
- ‘Fixable’ error undercuts climate laws
- Arctic cores signal ‘unique’ climate shift
- Arctic sea ice’s downward trend continues
- Icy mile leads to climate future
- Drilling deep to take Earth’s temperature
- Traveling rain band could leave billions dry
- A way to save trees? Knock on (fake) wood!





