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Who is the new sheriff in town regulating boreal forest growth? Jan 16, 2012

Climate change appears to be altering boreal forests. One recently observed symptom of these changes has been an apparent weakening of the positive relationship between high-latitude boreal tree growth and temperature at some sites.

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Insight: grassland invasion in California transfers carbon to atmosphere

Invasive species contribute to climate change by reducing carbon accumulation in soil and increasing microbial respiration

Conserving biodiversity hotspots 'could bring world's poor $500 bn a year'

Study puts economic value on the indirect ecosystem services provided by the world's poorest people (from the Guardian)

Soil conservation 'flicks the dust switch'

Measures to prevent erosion in the Canadian Prairies appear to be working

'Bicycle pump' to turn wave power into clean energy

Searaser device that pumps saltwater to an onshore generator has been tested in prototype and praised by ministers (from the Guardian)

Climate change not linked to violent conflict

Study failed to find direct causal relationship

Insight: tree-ring maximum density offers promise as Alaskan climate record

Tree-ring density data can track summer temperature fluctuations and avoid the "divergence problem"

Insight: rise in Arctic shrubs likely to increase vulnerability of permafrost

Shading effect likely to be over-ruled by decrease in surface reflectivity

GM microbe breakthrough paves way for large-scale seaweed farming for biofuels

Scientists have created a genetically engineered microbe that turns the algae into low-carbon biofuel, but must make the technique commercially viable (from the Guardian)

Migration can boost social resilience to environmental change

Effects on soil and water conservation practices as yet unclear

Nanotube bundles could boost solar cells

Material performs the two important steps for generating current

Cargo boat and US navy ship powered by algal oil in marine fuel trials

Substituting biofuel for bunker fuel may bring about revolution in world's shipping fleets (from the Guardian)

More intensive oil-palm farming may not spare rainforest

High-yield oil palm plantations tend to take up more forested land in the Peruvian Amazon than lower-yield farms

Insight: climate change likely to increase isolation of dead zones

Models help predict future of oceanic oxygen minimum zones

African thunderstorms show up in Scotland

Readings of atmospheric electricity from Shetland correlate with El Niño-related activity

Global warming set to bring colder, snowier winters

Drop in Arctic sea ice may boost atmospheric moisture levels, increasing autumn snowfall and triggering negative phase of Arctic Oscillation

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