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Geotimes May 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Yellowstone Fires Leave Microbes Nitrogen-Hungry Researchers hot on the trail of severe fires in Yellow-stone National Park have found that the nitrogen in forest soils can be greatly affected by such fires, which occur within the region once every few hundred years, and kill most of a forest's trees.
Scientific American August 2008 Keren Blankfeld Schultz	Wildfires May Improve Forests' Ability to Sequester Carbon When saving trees means less carbon storage.
National Defense May 2008 Grace V. Jean	Water, Climate Change: Recipe for Trouble? We still lack a comprehensive understanding of how the world's water possibly could be affected by the phenomenon of climate change.
Geotimes February 2005 Sara Pratt	Cicadas Speed Forest Growth The trillions of decomposing insects on forest floors across the eastern U.S. serve to fertilize the forests where they died.
Financial Advisor September 2011 Ellie Winninghoff	Go Hug A Forest Impact investors can foster change while earning handsome returns in one of the only asset classes where there's real growth.
Geotimes November 2007 Carolyn Gramling	Acid Rain Alters Coastal Waters Excess carbon dioxide, sulfur and nitrogen from fossil fuel burning, agricultural runoff and other human sources are changing ocean chemistry -- and that impact is especially pronounced along the coasts, new research suggests.
Popular Mechanics January 26, 2009 Andrew Moseman	Scientists Use Massive Crane to Study Troubled Forests From Above In a study released in last week's Science researchers surveying forests of the American West found that trees are dying at an ever-increasing rate.
Mother Jones June 2000 Ted Williams	False Forests What's green, full of trees, and worse than a clearcut? Vast pine farms, which are rapidly replacing the woods with a new kind of Southern plantation.
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	Could Environmentalists Learn to Love This Road? An asphalt strip through Brazil's Amazon rainforest is intended to anchor an economy based on a newer, gentler way to use the rain forest.
Geotimes October 2005 Megan Sever	Carbon's Complicated River Ride Researchers recently found that carbon moves from the atmosphere, through trees, soil and water, and back into the atmosphere in fewer than five years, indicating that the landscape is not providing as much long-term storage of carbon dioxide as hoped.
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Peter Fairley	Europe Looks to North America's Forests to Meet Renewable Energy Goals Emissions reductions, however, may prove smaller and slower than once expected
Smithsonian August 2006 Michael Tennesen	Uphill Battle As the climate warms in the cloud forests of the Andes, plants and animals must climb to higher, cooler elevations or die.
Scientific American March 2009 Michael Tennesen	Invasive Earthworms Denude Forests in U.S. Great Lakes Region Worms, such as the night crawler, eat leaf litter which acts as a rooting medium for new growth
Outside June 2003 Douglas Gantenbein	We're Toast Last summer, U.S. wildfires cost $1.6 billion to stop and claimed the lives of 23 firefighters. The expense and sacrifice did nothing to solve the problems of overgrown forests, misguided policies, and misspent resources. We need to get serious about rethinking the role of flame in the woods.
Geotimes February 2006 Naomi Lubick	Trees Confound Global Warming The potential canceling-out effects of trees' low reflectivity for carbon sequestration raise questions as to whether tree planters should get carbon credits in North America, as outlined in the Kyoto Protocol.
Chemistry World December 8, 2008 Manisha Lalloo	Trace molybdenum limits forest growth Scientists have discovered that a trace metal is the limiting factor restricting nitrogen uptake in tropical rainforests.
IDB America July 2005 Roger Hamilton	Cutting a forest to save it A pioneering experiment in community forestry management in Peten, Guatemala.
IDB America May 2003 Roger Hamilton	Want power? Plant trees! In the mountains of Honduras, environmental protection and energy generation go hand in hand.
Geotimes February 2005 Megan Sever	Bugging Out with Warmer Weather If Earth continues to warm, especially in northern latitudes, insect outbreaks are more likely to occur, and potentially harm forests and affect the planet's carbon cycle.
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Wired August 21, 2007 David Wolman	Eco-Capitalists Save Mother Nature By Charging for Her Services David Brand, founder and director of a forestry investment business, is buying forests now to make money in the future from their existence.
IDB America January 2006	We Are Trying to Make Dreams Happen The governor of Brazil's Amazonian state of Acre is a passionate advocate of the rain forest and his people's economic future. Here's an interview with Jorge Viana on his government's innovative approach to preserving the rain forest.
Wired May 19, 2008 Alex Steffen	Counterpoint: Dangers of Focusing Solely on Climate Change To have any hope of staving off collapse, we need to move forward with measures that address many interrelated problems and not just focus on carbon.
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi	Soil Testing If you've heard it once, you've heard it a hundred times: every garden should have its soil tested.
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Geotimes August 2005 Megan Sever	Marshes Record Climate Changes Research coming out of a marsh near the mouth of the Hudson is now providing insight into how the ecosystem has evolved, based on a core that dates back 1,350 years, and could help planners better manage the system in the future.
Salon.com June 9, 2000 Mark Hertsgaard	The California chainsaw massacre Clear-cutting is tearing up forests in the nation's most environmentally aware state, and opponents blame the timber industry's ties to Gov. Gray Davis.
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TIME Asia June 20, 2011 Brendan Brady	Battle of the Jungle Sorng Rukavorn is one of 13 community forests in Cambodia's Oddar Meanchey province -- spread over a total of 68,000 hectares -- being registered with climate-change groups as a bank of carbon credits.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Sandra Upson	Loser: Algae Bloom Climate-Change Scheme Doomed Planktos's ploy to combat global warming by sequestering carbon in the oceans holds no water.
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	Tomorrow's Amazon In the far western Amazonian state of Acre, a group of idealists is inventing a pragmatic, hard-nosed way to protect the rainforest.
IDB America June 2005 Roger Hamilton	Brazil's Other Forest Still brimming with biological diversity, the Atlantic Forest needs allies.
Outside August 2005 Peter Stark	The Tree Slayer What does a naive environmentalist discover when he buys his own forest? He's got to log it to save it.
Wired May 19, 2008 Matt Power	Old-Growth Forests Can Actually Contribute to Global Warming Forests actually give up more carbon from decomposing wood than they lock down in new growth.
National Gardening Robert Kourik	Gardening Fact or Fallacy? Though plants, soils and weather conditions are always evolving, it seems as if some gardening practices become embedded like fossils.
Chemistry World February 2006 Katharine Sanderson	Lessons for Carbon Negative Fuel Production in the Amazon Dark, nutrient rich, Amazonian soil could hold the key to reducing carbon emissions, claim researchers.
IDB America April 2005 Roger Hamilton	Pathways to survival The tiny world of a little Brazilian monkey gets bigger---and just in time.
Geotimes January 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Fire-Starting Hotspot In 2004, a mysterious patch of hot soil triggered a forest fire in Southern California's Los Padres National Forest. Despite multiple research expeditions, scientists have been unable to determine the cause of the heat. Now, landslide debris and various faults remain the focus of study.
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BusinessWeek October 27, 2003 Mark L. Clifford	Rainforest Rescue Can sustainable logging succeed? A group experiment in Indonesia could show Big Timber the way.
IDB America April 2005 Roger Hamilton	The Message of a Little Monkey In Rio de Janeiro and across the globe, natural ecosystems are being altered and simplified to serve burgeoning human demands. If the golden lion tamarin escapes extinction, the world will be a little more habitable for the rest of us.
IDB America January 2006 Roger Hamilton	Machines in the Garden A state in Brazil's Amazon enlists laboratories and industrial parks to help protect its forests.
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