Deforestation
Deforestation occurs when the trees in a forested area are cut or destroyed faster than they can replace themselves. When too many trees are cut or destroyed, a very important element is...
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Deforestation
For millennia people have known the importance of trees. The Sumerians described in their tablets how the forest canopy shades the earth and moderates the climate. The authors of the Old...
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Forests and Deforestation
A forest is any ecological community that is structurally dominated by tree-sized woody plants. Forests occur anywhere that the climate is suitable in terms of length of the ...
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Deforestation
Deforestation is the complete removal of a forest ecosystem and conversion of the land to another type of landscape. It differs from clear-cutting, which entails complete removal of al...
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Deforestation and Desertification
A common claim of defenders of tropical rain forests is that because of the shallowness of rain forest soils cutting down those forests for crops or cattle grazing wi...
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Adam Wood
Approximately 90 percent of West Africa's coastal rain forest has disappeared since 1900 (1). If deforestation continues at its present rate there will be no rain forest left in Africa by ...
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Can you picture the world without the tropics? Without rainforests? This is what we are on our way to seeing, thanks to logging: the deforestation of land. Deforestation not only causes th...
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A reported jump in the rate of Amazon deforestation is unproven despite a government crackdown on tree cutting, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said in comments published Thursday.Silva said fi...
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Calvert DeForest, the white-haired, bespectacled nebbish who gained cult status as the oddball Larry "Bud" Melman on David Letterman's late night television shows, has died after a long illness.The...
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Brazil announced Friday it will create a landholder registry and send 700 more federal police to the Amazon River basin in a new effort to monitor and prevent deforestation in the environmentally s...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deforestation of the Amazon
has surged in recent months and is likely to rise in 2008 for
the first time in four years, a senior Brazilian government
scientist said Wednesda...
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Brazil will combat rising deforestation in the Amazon by sending extra federal police and environmental agents to areas where illegal clearing of the rain forest jumped dramatically last year, offi...
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Brazil announced a sharp drop in the rate of Amazon deforestation but environmentalists warned it could be a short-term trend masking the broader threat against the rainforest.The Environment Minis...
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The United States and much of Europe have reversed years of deforestation and are showing a net increase in wooded areas, while most developing countries continue to cut down their trees, a U.N. ag...
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The effect of deforestation on climate depends on three things _ location, location and location.Environmentalists concerned about global warming have long encouraged preservation of forests becaus...
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's farm sector is only
just realizing the need to protect the Amazon rain forest but
it could be many years before deforestation stops, the
agriculture minister said. Br...
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Brasilia (dpa) - Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is
set to request that the G8 countries meeting at Heiligendamm, Germany
this week create a fund to compensate...
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