Wright & King Computing Services 612 E 89th St Brooklyn NY 11236-3440 Change Email Preferences In Nicaragua, Hurricanes Eta and Iota damaged forests when they roared ashore in November. Bark beetles, which thrive in hot, dry weather associated with climate change, wiped out forests in Central Europe, especially in Germany and Czech Republic. "Nature has been whispering to us about these risks for a long time, but now she is shouting. The longer we wait to both stop deforestation and shift to net-zero emissions trajectories in other sectors, the more likely it is that our natural carbon sinks will go up in smoke, " Frances Seymour, a distinguished senior fellow at WRI, wrote in a column about the new report. There was a bright spot in the report. Forest loss declined in Indonesia for the fourth year in a row. After devastating fires in 2015, the Indonesian government imposed a ban on cutting down primary forests and converting peatland to agriculture use. It also restricted licensing for palm oil plantations. The Weather Company's primary journalistic mission is to report on breaking weather news, the environment and the importance of science to our lives. This story does not necessarily represent the position of our parent company, IBM. |
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