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News - Forests and Climate Change

World Bank and UN carbon offset scheme ‘complicit’ in genocidal land grabs - NGOs

3rd Jul 2014
Plight of Kenya's indigenous Sengwer shows carbon offsets are empowering corporate recolonisation of the South. (The Guardian)

High carbon dioxide levels cause warming in tropics

29th Jun 2014
Higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere cause warming not only at high latitudes but also across tropical regions, according to new research. (Science Daily)

Ecotopia emerging: sustainable forests and healthy livelihoods go hand in hand

26th Jun 2014
Political scientist Arun Agrawal's research sheds light on the connection between forest health and people's livelihoods. (Wendee Nicole / Mongabay)

As forests are cleared and species vanish, there’s one other loss: a world of languages

8th Jun 2014
A new report shows a direct link between disappearing habitats and the loss of languages. One in four of the world's 7,000 spoken tongues is now at risk of falling silent for ever as the threat to cultural biodiversity grows. (The Guardian 2014)

Langrabbing is bad, it must be stopped

4th Jun 2014
It is incredible that respectable leaders, including those in CCM and the government, should collude with village leaders to usurp land from poor subsistence peasants in the rural drought-prone district. (Daily News)

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