Sentences with phrase «highest forest loss»

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The research, published in Nature Communications, finds that mining - related forest loss caused roughly 10 percent of all Amazon deforestation between 2005 and 2015, much higher than previous estimates.

Preventing further losses of carbon from our tropical forests must remain a high priority.»

Surprisingly, loss of woodlands tended to be higher in protected forest reserves compared with the larger Chobe District.

Since many ecosystems and cities are not adapted to this, prolonged hot periods can result in a high death toll, forest fires, and dramatic harvest losses.

Across the globe, temperate coniferous forests experienced the largest percentage of loss, tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests lost the most area of interior forest, and boreal forests and taiga lost interior forest at the highest rate.

Despite what the report calls «considerable progress,» in reducing forest loss, deforestation «continues at an alarmingly high rate in many countries.»

This trend highlights the importance of using this newer, high - resolution monitoring system for keeping tabs on this growing cause of forest loss.

The team combined field surveys with airborne mapping and high - resolution satellite monitoring to show that the geographic extent of mining has increased 400 % from 1999 to 2012 and that the average annual rate of forest loss has tripled since the Great Recession of 2008.

Forests are both darker and have higher water losses than grasses that are likely to replace them.

Forests that historically had large areas with no snow on the ground for two to four months and high moisture loss from soils and vegetation in spring and summer have seen the biggest increases in wildfire in early spring snowmelt years (for example, the northern Rockies and parts of the Sierra Nevada).

Some regions may even shift from being a carbon sink to being an atmospheric carbon dioxide source, 50,51,52 though large uncertainties exist, such as whether projected disturbances to forests will be chronic or episodic.31 Midwest forests are more resilient to forest carbon losses than most western forests because of relatively high moisture availability, greater nitrogen deposition (which tends to act as a fertilizer), and lower wildfire risk.50, 51,53

Both Brazil and Indonesia, which had the highest net loss of forest in the 1990s, have significantly reduced their rate of loss, while in Australia, severe drought and forest fires have exacerbated the loss of forest since 2000.

Meanwhile, smarter and more intensive food production that brings abandoned and degraded farmland back into productive use will deliver higher yields, bigger profits and reduced carbon emissions as forest loss is stemmed.

Asia, which had a net loss of forest of some 600 000 ha annually in the 1990s, reported a net gain of forest of more than 2.2 million hectares per year in the period 2000 — 2010, primarily due to the large - scale afforestation reported by China and despite continued high rates of net loss in many countries in South and Southeast Asia.

However, it is possible that in mid - and high - latitude islands, higher temperature and the retreat and loss of snow cover could enhance conditions for the spread of invasive species and forest cover (Smith et al., 2003; see also Chapter 15, Section 15.6.3).

«WWF is alarmed that the loss of forests is taking such a high toll not only on the remaining wild elephants and tigers in Sumatra but also on global climate change,» said Dr Sybille Klenzendorf, director of species conservation at WWF - US.

We use global climate model simulations to estimate the distribution of ecologically - relevant climate changes resulting from forest loss in two hotspot regions: western North America (wNA), which is experiencing accelerated dieoff, and the Amazon basin, which is subject to high rates of deforestation.

For example, mechanisms evaluated in this work revealed a cooling trend in Eurasia due to forest loss in western North America; this finding, however, contrasts with evidence of a warming trend in the Northern Hemisphere high latitudes with increased CO2 concentrations [45] that result in shifts in boreal forest range and disturbance regime [46].

Meanwhile, last month Brazil — which has the world's largest extent of tropical rainforests and the world's highest rate of forest loss — said it promote a similar initiative at the talks.

Figures for tree cover and tree cover loss and gain presented on the country and global overview pages were calculated using tabular data from a 2013 publication, «High - Resolution Global Maps of 21st - Century Forest Cover Change» by Hansen et al..

Peru had the world sixth highest loss of old - growth forests between 2000 and 2005, losing 224,600 hectares per year.

With one of the world's highest rates of primary forest loss and a series of controversial concessions granted to foreign companies in key forest areas, Cambodia is widely viewed as an environmental pariah.

The continuation of severe fires in the tropics in 2017 — Brazil, Indonesia and Guatemala, for example — suggests the past 12 months will go down as another year of high forest cover loss.

While that loss was low, it resulted in a disproportionate amount of carbon emissions because the protected areas had higher density of forest cover relative to unprotected forests.

Malaysia had the world's highest rate of forest loss between 2000 and 2012, according to a new global forest map developed in partnership with Google.

In 2017 however, we got updates for both 2015 and 2016, and the numbers weren't pretty: last year global forest loss hit the highest level on record (the dataset goes back to 2000).

Forests are both darker and have higher water losses than grasses that are likely to replace them.

Mongabay points out that the state of Pará has the highest rate of deforestation in the Amazon since 2006, being responsible for 43 % of total forest loss.

A high risk of forest loss is shown for Central America and Amazonia, more frequent wildfire in Amazonia, more runoff in north - western South America, and less runoff in Central America.

While the United States gained 4 million hectares of forests, Mexico lost over 6 million, although government reports reveal the loss may be even higher.

The loss of forest area in the country has been a high six per cent between 1975 and 2005, according to a study by the city - based National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC).