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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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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Deforestation
Forests and Deforestation
Deforestation
Deforestation and Desertification
