One million trees will be planted in Uganda to sustain an area of tropical forest in Africa the size of Wales.
Total carbon deposits per square kilometer in these coastal systems may be up to five times the carbon stored in tropical forests, due to their ability to absorb, or sequester, carbon at rates up to 50 times those of the same area of tropical forest.
It is indeed an irony that, in the area of tropical disease, the wicked drug firms have discovered the value of not-for-profit business at precisely the point when governments are contemplating the idea that the best way forward is the use of incentives more attuned to red-in-tooth-and-claw capitalism.
The Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) has added its support to a project to sustain an area of African tropical forest the size of Wales.
The number of people needing assistance is much higher, and will likely rise if utility power is not restored by Wednesday, when a northeaster is expected to dump more rain and tropical force winds over the area.
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That combination keeps the local area at a consistent tropical green year-round.
"Every year in tropical countries we lose about an area of forest about the size of New York state, " said Peter Frumhoff, of the advocacy group the Union of Concerned Scientists.
By Sunday night, tropical rain showers will move into the area and become heavier and more numerous on Monday.
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It is the largest continuous area of primary broad leaf forest ecosystem in the whole sub-tropical zone.
Flight 447 was passing through an area prone to volatile and dangerous weather known as the Inter-tropical Convergence Zone when it went down.
Tuesday's report describes Sandy's beginnings as a tropical wave off the coast of Africa on Oct. 11 that initially produced a wide area of showers and thunderstorms in the eastern Atlantic.
And during Tropical Storm Lee and Hurricane Sandy, it was Griffiss International Airport that served as a staging area for relief efforts.
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