deforestation

Climate Study Highlights Wedge Issue

Written on January 11, 2013.

Eli Kintisch, Science Eight years ago, Steven Davis was a 26-year-old graduate student when he heard an energy scientist give an inspiring talk about tackling the global climate challenge. The speaker, Robert Socolow of Princeton University, had just co-authored a plan for “Stabilization Wedges: Solving the Climate Problem for the Next 50 Years with Current Technologies,” as the title put it (Science, 13 August 2004, p. 968). Humanity could stabilize rapidly rising annual...

Using water to predict fire

Written on January 17, 2012.

UCI researchers can forecast wildfires using sea surface temperatures. Janet Wilson, University Communications As a boy in coastal San Diego in the 1980s, Jim Randerson loved the exotic fish, birds and even tides of red crustaceans that washed ashore during storms created by temperature changes in far-off seas. Across the globe, Yang Chen was a child in rural southeast China witnessing the pollution created by new manufacturing and power plants. “I actually grew up at the same time that...

Forecasting Fire Season Severity in South America Using Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies

Written on November 11, 2011.

Yang Chen, James T. Randerson, Douglas C. Morton, Ruth S. DeFries, G. James Collatz, Prasad S. Kasibhatla, Louis Giglio, Yufang Jin, Miriam E. Marlier, Science Deforestation and forest degradation in South America contribute to anthropogenic carbon emissions and regional and global climate change. Fire is the dominant method for converting forest to cropland or pasture, and fires account for approximately half of the carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in South America....

Drought, deforestation link fuels climate change

Written on December 8, 2008.

In the rainforests of equatorial Asia, the practice of using fire to clear forests and destroy organic soil increases substantially in dry years, releasing huge amounts of climate-warming carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, according to a new international study analyzing six years of weather and fire observations. Jennifer Fitzenberger, University Communications In the rainforests of equatorial Asia, the practice of using fire to clear forests and destroy organic soil increases substantially...

Tag: deforestation

Climate Study Highlights Wedge Issue

Using water to predict fire

Forecasting Fire Season Severity in South America Using Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies

Drought, deforestation link fuels climate change