"And the bio-based transistors are so safe that you can put them in the forest,
#Farming Now Worse for Climate Than Clearing Forests Efforts such as these to slow deforestation have delivered some of humanity few gains in its otherwise lackadaisical battle so far against global warming.
The year before, nearly 60,000 acres of rainforest had been torn out of the municipality. Now farmers and loggers were being arrested by armed police,
unless they proved they were protecting the rainforest. The campaign marked a sharp change from the 1970s
While United nations climate negotiations focus heavily on forest protections the researchers note that delegates to the talks ignore similar opportunities to reform farming. he decline in deforestation over the past decade
been driven by new forestry rules in Brazil, by the U n. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest degradation (REDD) program,
quantifies the reductions in climate pollution from the degradation and clearcutting of forests. Clearcutting most often clears space for agriculture,
Burning fuel produces about four times more climate pollution every year than forestry and agriculture combined figure that is growing.
The research shows that the recent climate-protecting gains in forests are being canceled nearly out by efforts to satisfy the world growing appetitearticularly its appetite for meat.
Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest spiked recently following nearly a decade of declines, for example, as farmers and loggers rushed to exploit loopholes in forest protection laws.
Some parts of Central africa are seeing deforestation in areas where it was not previously a problem.
And cutting down trees can reduce moisture levels in a rainforest which could cause parts of the Amazon to start dying offven if everybody chainsaws simultaneously jammed.
and perhaps a good deal of polemic, about REDD, Steve Schwartzman, director of tropical forest policy at the Environmental defense Fund, said. ut, over time,
and giraffe standing in a forest with trees in the background. But occasionally it stumbles.
a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has collaborated with researchers in the Madison-based U s. Department of agriculture Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) to develop a surprising solution:
Ma says. ow the chips are so safe you can put them in the forest
In addition to Kiessling lab, groups in the labs of UW-Madison bacteriology Professor Katrina Forest, Scripps Research Institute cell and molecular biology Professor James Paulson,
"The chips are so safe you can put them in the forest and fungus will degrade it.
take into the rainforest and get a genetic sequence right there.""The drawbacks identified so far revolve around accuracy-the data it produces is currently less accurate than the data produced by a larger machine,
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