'Cooling' forests can heat too
Forests counteract the 'greenhouse effect' by removing heat-trapping CO2 from the atmosphere and storing it in living trees. Over the years of measurement, Yakir's group has found that the semi-arid forest, even though it's not as luxuriant as temperate forests farther north, is a surprisingly good carbon sink – better than most European pine forests and about on par with the global average. This was unexpected news for a forest sitting at the edge of a desert, and it indicated that there is real hope for the more temperate forests if things heat up under future global change scenarios.
- As the home of all Jews, Israel must be a place which is also the home of all Judaisms. It is a place which must serve as a common fabric for Jewish life, not by enforcing one form of Judaism on everyone, but to the contrary, by being the place where all Jews learn to respect each other and develop ways to share our common space with each other.
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