Climate change may help rainforests

(ClimateRadar) A new research from Brazilian and EUropean scientists suggests that Amazon forests are vulnerable to both long- and short-term droughts, but satellite observations showed a large-scale photosynthetic green-up in intact evergreen forests of the Amazon in response to a short, intense drought in 2005. These findings suggest that Amazon forests, though threatened by human-caused deforestation, fire, and possibly by more severe long-term droughts, may be more resilient to climate changes than ecosystem models assume.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1146663

Forest nations create F8 to tackle climate change

Eight nations with the largest tropical forests have agreed to push for their protection to be made eligible for carbon credits.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20752157/