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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.
Scientific American September 2009 Madhusree Mukerjee	Conflicted Conservation: When Restoration Efforts Are Pitted against Human Rights Saving Earth might mean trampling indigenous societies
BusinessWeek August 26, 2010 Stuart Biggs	New Zealand Farmers Harvest Carbon Credits Growing trees can be more profitable than raising sheep.
Scientific American August 2008 Keren Blankfeld Schultz	Wildfires May Improve Forests' Ability to Sequester Carbon When saving trees means less carbon storage.
Geotimes April 2006 Naomi Lubick	Faith-Based Carbon Credit Systems Market-based approaches to help stem carbon releases, and in turn climate change, could prove difficult to marshal and enforce. Carbon credits and trade incentives are a small piece in a larger issue.
Chemistry World February 2007 Helen Pilcher	Living on Credits Carbon rationing isn't just a personal fancy. A growing band of UK politicians and scientists are touting it as the fairest and most practical way to cut emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane.
CFO January 1, 2008 John Goff	Carbon Trading The carbon offset market is set to take off. But at this point, the future worth of a carbon commodity is tough to call. Could U.S. businesses end up buying a lot of hot air?
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The Motley Fool January 25, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Trading on Climate Change Markets for emissions credits are starting to take root. As more of the Kyoto Protocol's provisions take effect, trading in these markets will likely accelerate, and emerging-market projects designed to take advantage of that trading will continue to provide opportunities for global investors.
IDB America July 2005 Roger Hamilton	Cutting a forest to save it A pioneering experiment in community forestry management in Peten, Guatemala.
Popular Mechanics May 2007 Simon Cooper	Global Timber Smugglers--and How You Can Stop Them This multibillion-dollar black market business occurs in more than 70 countries, and contributes to the annual destruction of more than 32 million wooded acres. Here is a Guilt-Free Wood Buyer's Guide and Tips to Buy Safe Wood.
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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.
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Geotimes August 2003 Greg Peterson	Hubbard Brook: Making Watershed Links The wollastonite addition at Hubbard Brook is the latest chapter in a rich history of large scale manipulations aimed at understanding how human disturbances impact forests.
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The Motley Fool July 9, 2008 Zoe Van Schyndel	Turn Smog Into Money This new exchange-traded investment lets you profit from carbon credits.
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 2007 Susan Arterian Chang	Carbon Commerce The Europeans have demonstrated beyond doubt that the right to emit CO2 is destined to be a major internationally traded asset -- but their experience to date also exemplifies some of the pitfalls the rest of the world faces in establishing such trading systems.
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.
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Fast Company December 1, 2007 David Roberts	Carbon Copy Disclose your greenhouse-gas emissions? Sounds crazy. Why Wal-Mart and P&G are doing it - and you should too.
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.
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Popular Mechanics June 12, 2009 Jerry Beilinson	Climate Change Solutions: Live From World Science Festival 2009 The roundtable session, called "Carbon Conundrum," took place in front of an audience of about 150 on day two of the World Science Festival.
Salon.com December 18, 2000 Vivienne Walt	Cambodian justice Twenty-five years after Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge launched its genocide campaign, could a war-crimes trial finally be a reality?
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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.
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