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- Indonesia's inferno will make us all sweat. Pearce, Fred // New Scientist;10/18/97, Vol. 156 Issue 2104, p22
Reports on the impact of the burning of peat bogs in Indonesia on the global carbon dioxide emission. Effect of Indonesia's forest fires on global warming; Estimated area affected by the fires on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra.
- Northwest US faces a fiery future with global warming. // New Scientist;6/21/2008, Vol. 198 Issue 2661, p22
The article reports that the warming in the equatorial Pacific can spark fires in the north-west region of the U.S. This is according to Yongqiang Liu of the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service in Athens, Georgia, who also estimated that the amount of land burned annually in the region...
- Tropical Rain Forests...: "lungs of the planet". Zawislak, Julie // Monkeyshines on Health & Science;Jan2001 Botany, p14
Within 4 square miles of a tropical rain forest there may be 1500 species of flowering plants, 750 of trees, 125 of mammals, 400 of birds, 60 of amphibians, and 150 of butterflies. No greater ecosystem on earth has more diversity. The rain forest is also a valuable source for many products, such...
- Junk Science and the New American Myths. de Toledano, Ralph // Insight on the News;8/5/2002, Vol. 18 Issue 28, p48
Presents examples of junk science and other myths propagated in the U.S. society. Myth on global warming; Implications of making DDT illegal; Number of deaths attributed to obesity-related sickness; Role of selective logging in forest fires.
- A NEW METHOD TO DETERMINE CARBON EMISSIONS FROM SIBERIAN FIRES. McRae, Douglas J.; Jin, J. Z.; Yang, Y. Q.; Baker, S. P.; Conard, S. G.; Stocks, B. J.; Sukhinin, A. I. // Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;Jan2008, Vol. 89 Issue 1, p37
The article discusses the methods used by scientists to determine carbon emissions from forest fires in Siberia, Russia. It revealed that Russian boreal forests make up 25% to 30% of the global terrestrial biomass reserves and fires are the most important disturbance process wherein 10 to 15...
- Blame it on El Nino. Beers, Stephen // E: The Environmental Magazine;Sep/Oct98, Vol. 9 Issue 5, p22
Looks at the economic damages brought by El Nino and global warming. Evidence of global warming; Information on the rainforest fires in Indonesia; Damages brought by the floods attributed to El Nino in Burma.
- Perspective needed on forest fires. Michaels, Patrick J. // Business Journal Serving Fresno & the Central San Joaquin Valley;9/1/2006, Issue 323603, p27
The article focuses on forest fire incidents in the U.S. which are caused by global warming. As studied by A. L. Westerling of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, it has been found out that major fires have occurred four times as frequently since 1986 than they did from 1979 through 1985. It...
- Chemistry of Forest Fires and Regional Haze with Emphasis on Southeast Asia. Radojevic, M. // Pure & Applied Geophysics;Jan2003, Vol. 160 Issue 1/2, p157
� The current state of knowledge regarding the chemistry of forest fires and regional haze is reviewed. More than 100 compounds have been identified in wood smoke and many of these have also been observed in field studies. Products of biomass combustion can have different environmental...
- Mercury Rising. Flores, Graciela // Natural History;Nov2006, Vol. 115 Issue 9, p18
The article discusses research being done on the amount of mercury sequestered in forests and peatlands in western Canada and the amount released by fires. It references a study by Merritt R. Turetsky et al, published in the 2006 issue of "Geophysical Research Letters." Fossil-fuel burning and...
