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Most importantly, the tropical nations that stand to benefit most from avoided deforestation began to make their voices heard in international climate talks, thanks to innovative leaders like Papua New Guinea's Kevin Conrad, one of TIME's Heroes of the Environment. That has prompted big rain-forest nations like Indonesia and Brazil, which were initially suspicious of exposing their sovereign forests to an international carbon market, to rethink REDD. Last month, representatives from a handful of Indonesian and Brazilian states signed a memorandum of understanding with several large U.S. states - including California, which has already adopted a carbon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Green Banks: Paying Countries to Keep their Trees | 12/4/2008 | See Source »

Many of the locals in this part of Papua New Guinea live as subsistence farmers, but some have already been working with The New Guinea Binatang Research Center, which is also involved with the project...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Research Preserves New Guinea Forest | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

Instead of selling fifty hectares of rainforest to lumber companies as many of their neighbors had, the Wanang clan of Papua New Guinea had a different idea: use the plot for scientific purposes...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Research Preserves New Guinea Forest | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

...species richness is supposedly astronomical,” Tootle said, noting that Papua New Guinea is home to 5 percent of the Earth’s biodiversity despite making up only one half of 1 percent of the planet’s land area...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Research Preserves New Guinea Forest | 11/7/2008 | See Source »

...here's what I suggest. Before you pay even the lowest price for Microsoft Office, give Zoho or Google Docs a try. They aren't confusing, and they won't make you feel stupid. To make absolutely sure, I became my own guinea pig. I typed this story in Zoho Writer, even though I had never even tried it until this week. So far, so good. Here's hoping my editor feels the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Late to the Game: Microsoft Office Online | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

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