Sentences with phrase «continuing deforestation»
"Continuing deforestation" refers to the ongoing process of cutting down or removing trees in a specific area, with no signs of stopping. Full definition
COLLEGE STATION — A paper published in the Journal of Applied Ecology by two Texas A&M University scientists warns of impacts to fisheries and fish diversity, stemming from continued deforestation of the Amazon River.
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«Releasing this carbon into the atmosphere through continuing deforestation not only commits us to the worst impacts of climate change, but also results in the loss of a globally important carbon sink,» said Martin Herold, professor of geoinformation science and remote sensing at Wageningen University in the Netherlands
«This «50:50:50:50» estimate shows that even with continuing deforestation over the next 40 years, the mitigation potential is large, in addition to protecting the sink capacity of forest for continued removal of atmospheric CO2.»
Some assume we must stop all emissions from deforestation immediately, so that all our remaining carbon budget can be used for industrial emissions, while others reckon we should keep part of the budget available for continued deforestation.
Additionally, projections of large - scale forest die - off [48] and continued deforestation [2,43] further necessitate the explicit consideration of alterations to ecoclimate teleconnections.
Continued deforestation of the Amazon rainforest could diminish the amount of rain that falls in the Amazon River basin, finds a new study.
The idea, says the artist, is to «present a series of rainforest tree stumps as a «ghost forest» — using the negative space created by the missing trunks as a metaphor for climate change, the absence representing the removal of the world's «lungs» through continued deforestation»
Thus, both continuing deforestation and a warming climate alike threaten the carbon storage, and the rain generation, of the vast Amazon system.
With much of their Madagascar rainforest habitat lost to continuing deforestation, the future of lemurs is threatened.
What temperature and precipitation impacts will the summer meltback of the Arctic sea ice and the continuing deforestation of the Amazon rainforest have on Western North America's agriculture?
Data show atmospheric CO2 continuing to climb with the rampant burning of fossil fuels and continued deforestation.
This would mean building more compact, connected, coordinated cities rather than continuing with unmanaged sprawl; restoring degraded land and making agriculture more productive rather than continuing deforestation; scaling up renewable energy sources rather than continued dependence on fossil fuels.
Once fires caused by these droughts and continued deforestation have reduced the Amazon's size by half, says Sampaio, desertification will slowly transform the terrain into a «tropical savanna».