Sentences with phrase «by deforestation»
This total represents up to 40 % of the carbon loss caused by deforestation in the region.
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It was believed that up to 1.1 billion tons of carbon is taken into the atmosphere annually by deforestation in the tropics.
Most of the species live in trees and are threatened by deforestation.
A new research study shows that it is not only the climate that is adversely affected by deforestation.
It is also affected by the increase of the practice of changing land use, mainly by deforestation for agricultural purposes.
This increase is offset by deforestation and agricultural reductions.
Much more serious is the destruction of habitat by deforestation and expansion of farming.
Scientists need to act fast: Most of the new found species are endangered by deforestation.
It's been shown that agriculture actually cools temperatures, by deforestation changing the albedo.
Indigenous people located in the remote interior will also be affected, particularly by deforestation, restricted access to natural food sources and other resources, and the degradation of lands and waters.
From The Independent Amount of carbon released from the Earth is about the same as released by deforestation Ian Johnston Environment Correspondent @montaukian Tuesday 29 August 2017 19:25 BST The degradation of the Earth's soil by humans has been an environmental catastrophe on a similar scale to the deforestation of much of the planet, a...
The eastern population is being severely impacted by deforestation in its Mexican overwintering grounds and the western Monarchs are being squeezed by the constant pressures of coastal development and dwindling space.»
Japan's historically excellent, productive and sustainable agricultural system is being destroyed by deforestation, development, pollution and pesticides.
Available online in full, the premiere includes stories about carbon emissions produced by deforestation, the heated debate in US culture and politics about the causes of and possible solutions to global warming and what Syria's civil war suggests about a scary future in an ever - drier Middle East.
The Pillco Grande community is concerned about the potential impacts of climate change, which they understand is partly driven by deforestation (they correctly noted that industrial activities in rich countries are the primary cause of rising carbon dioxide emissions).
In cooperation with scientists from the Thünen - Institut and the Ecuadorian Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, a team from TUM compared the predicted loss of area of tree species caused by deforestation on the one hand and by predicted forest losses in an extreme climate change scenario on the other.
Tropical forests untouched by deforestation absorb huge amounts of carbon, more than all other northern hemisphere forests combined, the study found.
In 2005 a primary goal of Maathai was to extend the resources of the Green Belt Movement to help other areas of the world, such as the Republic of Haiti, which has also been ravaged by deforestation.
The same thing is happening in the Himalaya, made worse by deforestation.
A study published in Nature late last year warned that greenhouse gas emissions due to permafrost thaw could equal the amount currently emitted by deforestation worldwide, a significantly larger estimate than has been put forward before.
What goes for any tropical rainforest though, is that sadly climate change is never a single ecological stressor — and almost always accompanied by deforestation due to agricultural expansion.
They chose areas of old - growth forests in Thailand, Cameroon and Bolivia that were undisturbed by deforestation or human settlements.
These problems are compounded by deforestation, carried out in order to make room for increased agriculture as well as for commercial timber, and slash and burn land conversion for cattle grazing.
Drought and its effects in Ethiopia are exacerbated by deforestation, and the country has reduced its forest cover to now only 11.9 % of the land down from 35 % only a century ago.
Carbon monoxide emissions created by deforestation and burning fossil fuels create a barrier that traps the sun's heat on the Earth causing the planet to warm up.
Estimates of the water contributed by deforestation are 0.1 mm / yr (Gornitz et al., 1997) and 0.14 mm / yr (Sahagian, 2000) of sea level rise.
One thing the team, which also included scientists working in Brazil, are certain about, however, is that for this year at least, the Amazon Rainforest will be unable to absorb sufficient carbon so as to offset the ecological damage being wrought by deforestation, logging and fires.
The amount of CO2 that is removed is subject to large uncertainty, although recent estimates indicate that on a global scale, ecosystems on land remove about twice as much CO2 as is lost by deforestation.
It's often the case that areas wracked by deforestation or degradation, whether as a result of logging, mining, or clear - cutting, can be tricky to replant.
The significant loss of forests and trees world wide has been ongoing for centuries as measured by deforestation rates and land mass changes, it may be that as a singular functional unit a trees leaves does not do anything better or less than the equivalent area of grass leaves as far as basic atmospheric chemistry is concerned but a tree has a very significant biological, ecological and existential value that goes beyond a simple argument about chemical activity.
Despite the fact that logging rates in the Amazon skyrocketed in June, the figures put out by the Deforestation Detection in Real Time (DETER) and the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) say that it looks like 2008 - 2009 was a great year for the rainforests, with logging rates dropping 46 %.
That is not even close to enough to balance the 1.8 billion tons (1.6 gigatonnes) released into the atmosphere by deforestation or crop - clearing.
To achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, it will be necessary to ensure that all existing forest stocks are conserved and enhanced, not just forests that are currently threatened by deforestation.
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«The fish are not only affected by deforestation in the forest margins Forests furthest from the margins are also important, as well as other developments not mentioned in the legislation, such as unpaved roads and agriculture intensification.»
Temperatures around the world are rising due to the ever - increasing greenhouse gas emissions most of which come from burning fossil fuels — coal, oil, and gas — for energy, but which are also released by deforestation and industrialized agriculture.
«As a result of this investigation and criminal enforcement agreement, Gibson has acknowledged that it failed to act on information that the Madagascar ebony it was purchasing may have violated laws intended to limit overharvesting and conserve valuable wood species from Madagascar, a country which has been severely impacted by deforestation,» said Assistant Attorney General Moreno.
With more resources at low enough levels to impact environmental stability and more habitats being destroyed by deforestation and the search for fossil fuels, making even a small choice for a greener life can be important.
Forest fires are no longer driven mainly by deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, with climate change induced drought now taking a major role.
Anyone apprised of the palaeolithic massacre of the African and Eurasian megafauna, or the extermination of the great beasts of the Americas, or the massive carbon pulse produced by deforestation in the Neolithic must be able to see that the weapon of planetary mass destruction is not the current culture, but humankind.
New issuers from Québec joining the SVX include: ECOTIERRA is an operator of community - based sustainable agroforestry projects and a specialized impact fund manager delivering private equity market - type return alongside significant positive social and environmental impacts by addressing climate change and land degradation caused by deforestation.
Along with three colleagues, Kendon runs an intensive care unit for orchids, ferns and other shrubs threatened by deforestation, climate change, over-zealous collectors and volcanic eruptions.
It may have been found in the nick of time: the bird's habitat is threatened by deforestation and Ridgely and others have now launched a campaign to raise enough money to buy the land on which the bird lives.