Sentences with phrase «big impacts on forest»

Even small fires can have big impacts on forest structure and overall health, killing upwards of 40 percent of trees in a given area.

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Pokorny's work, coupled with a controversial new theory called the «biotic pump,» suggests that transforming landscapes from forest to field has at least as big an impact on regional climate as greenhouse gas — induced global warming.

In other words, a lot more people in poverty and dependent on forests live in the tropics, so presumably exposure to fire - related impacts there is a bigger deal?

Scientists have discovered a whopping 467 million hectares of previously unreported forest scattered around the world, a finding that they say could have a big impact on global carbon budgeting moving forward.