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“Bonds and Climate Change: The State of the Market in 2013,” HSBC Climate Change Centre of Excellence, Climate Bond Initiative

Study Shows Growth in Climate-Themed Bonds

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

Some $346 billion of climate-themed bonds are outstanding in global markets, nearly double that of one year ago, according to an HSBC Climate Change Centre of Excellence-Climate Bond Initiative’s 2013 study. Growth is expected to continue against a backdrop of stronger government policies and actions — including President Obama’s National Climate Change Action Plan and a possible 2015 international climate change accord, a long with growing investor activism for socially responsible investment..

New research suggests a controversial theory for forests as rainmakers

Forests as Rainmakers: New Study Lends Credence to Controversial Theory

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Andrew Burger | 1 Comments

A new study fleshes out the details of a theory that says forests play a significant role in creating rain. The implications would be profound and far-reaching should it prove valid.

The Waldo Canyon Fire rages near Colorado Springs

National Fire Preparedness Level Increased as Fires Rage in the West

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

As fires continue to rage in Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, and other western states, the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho yesterday raised the national fire preparedness level to “4” on a scale of 1 to 5. The heightened level indicates increased strain on federal resources battling the fires throughout the Rocky Mountain region and west. President Obama visited the beleaguered city of Colorado…

News from Durban: Humans Primarily Responsible for Global Warming; Good News on Forest Conservation

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Andrew Burger | 2 Comments

News on the climate change front: New research finds human activity responsible for nearly 3/4 of global temperature rise over the past 50 years; Sierra Leone establishes the Gola Rainforest National Park; the UK sends to protect Brazil’s Cerrado scrub forest from illegal logging.

White Spruce Growing Well in Face of Warming Climate at Alaska Firth River Study Site

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

White spruce at a study site along Alaska’s Firth River are adapting well to a warming climate, according to a Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory research team. That’s in stark contrast to white spruce populations in the rest of the state. The team matched tree ring growth, wood density data and climate data dating back to 1067 in carrying out their study.

Outbreaks of the mountain pine beetle due to climate change are devastating mountain forests. Globally forests are stressed due to unsustainable management and global warming.

Western, Eastern Forests Increasingly Under Threat from Climate Change

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

Forestry researchers at Oregon State University and Duke University have found that the ranges of signature forest species in northwestern and eastern US forests are shrinking due to a variety of environmental changes induced by a warming climate.

1993 US Northwest Forest Plan Turns Public Forests into Carbon Sink

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Andrew Burger | 4 Comments

Successful in realizing its original goal, the 1993 US Northwest Forest Plan is yielding unanticipated benefits two decades later, turning northwest public forests into net carbon sinks for the first time in decades.