2001 Climate Change Rainforest 
A Greener Life
JULY 6, 2025
Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus, the capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. As the world’s attention turns toward COP30, Brazil’s evolving environmental strategies will play a crucial role in shaping global discussions on sustainability, climate change, and conservation efforts.
Law Columbia
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
Note: On September 26, 2019, the Vanuatu Permanent Mission to the United Nations hosted a workshop on seeking an advisory opinion on climate change from the International Court of Justice. By Michael B. Professor Michael Gerrard gave a presentation about the legal and procedural issues that would be involved.
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Frontiers
APRIL 20, 2022
New high-resolution map shows fires caused one third of global forest loss between 2001 and 2019. Even I, as a geographer, was terrified reading all the headlines that seemed to imply that the last patch of the Amazonian rainforest was on fire, which was not true.”. Climate crisis is making endangered mountain gorillas more thirsty.
Washington Nature
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
While dry forests experience more severe wildfires and drought, coastal wet forests must contend with a unique set of circumstances, such as changes in land use, increasing insects and disease, and extreme weather events. With climate change compounding these stressors, there is an urgent need to prepare our forests for the future.
ESA
JANUARY 26, 2022
The Ecological Society of America benefited greatly from Tom’s leadership and ability to formulate science-based projections regarding the consequences of climate change and deforestation. I was among the fortunate people to know Tom as a friend and mentor when we were graduate students in biology at Yale, 1964-1970. Hutchinson and R.
Law Columbia
AUGUST 8, 2023
Although not a silver bullet, it is likely to have positive consequences of decreasing GHGs, advancing work to prepare for the worsening physical impacts of climate change, and encouraging climate friendly innovations. [10] 12] Here are some details about the proposed California legislation. Times , July 18, 2023. [7]
Circle of Blue
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Millions of acres of Alaska’s Tongass forest, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, will once again be federally protected from road-building and timber harvests. Mismanaged water structure and climate change — Iraq is the fifth-most vulnerable country to its impacts — compound the situation, Yale reports.
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