Sentences with phrase «impact of deforestation»

The study starts with a brief discussion of the long - term impact of deforestation on precipitation.

Plus as many as 8,000 fewer disposable diapers will end up in a landfill and you will help reduce the devastating climate impact of deforestation.

I think (without knowing so) that the other impacts of deforestation — like carbon cycle, water cycle and albedo changes — tend to make direct effects on winds virtually insignificant.

Plus as much as 8,000 fewer disposable diapers will end up in a landfill and you will help reduce the devastating climate impact of deforestation.

Previous research has focused on Amazon upland forests and the potential impacts of deforestation, fire, and drought.

Click Green: A new study from the University of California, Davis, provides a deeper understanding of the complex global impacts of deforestation on greenhouse gas emissions.

He also saw the environmental impact of deforestation...

Our accounting of the ugly impacts of deforestation only considers emissions and doesn't even touched on how the lives and traditions of forest communities are ruined when forests are razed, or how many species of plants and animals are lost, upsetting the delicate balance of ecosystems.

Students will investigate the different impacts of deforestation and also efforts to reforest this area of the Amazon.

A paper published in Environmental Research Letters assessed climate impacts of deforestation beyond releasing carbon dioxide, including methane and nitrous oxide emissions.

The full impact of deforestation on global carbon emissions is only now (finally) becoming more widely acknowledged (about 20 % of global emissions) and strategies envisioned to stop or at least slow the destruction.

(03/13/2012) The combined impacts of deforestation and climate change will bring a host of new troubles for the world's tropical rainforests argues a new study in Trends in Ecology and Evolution.

«The 1997 - 98 El Niño was one of the most important fire years, and put fire on everyone's map for the potential impacts of deforestation and tropical forest degradation from human activities,» said Morton.

as many as 8,000 fewer disposable diapers will end up in a landfill and you will help reduce the devastating climate impact of deforestation.

«Climate impacts of deforestation.»

Study lead author Dr Catherine Scott, from the School of Earth and Environment said: «Most previous assessments on the climate impacts of deforestation have focused on the amount of carbon dioxide that would be emitted, or changes to the way the land - surface exchanges energy and water with the atmosphere.

One of the first studies to map the impact of deforestation on biodiversity across entire regions of the Amazon has found a clear «threshold» for forest cover below which species loss becomes more rapid and widespread.

«We wanted to make a comprehensive assessment using all of the information that was available until now to give us the best estimate of what the impact of deforestation would be on rainfall,» Garcia - Carreras said.

«To understand the impacts of deforestation and climate change, we need reliable long - term data on the fauna from around the world,» explained Dr. Aide.

Crowther cautions that even though the latest figures do not change the current science on carbon storage or diminish the impact of deforestation.

They estimated the effects of deforestation on 5,000 species and modeled the impact of deforestation on some 10,000 more.

The paper noted a gulf between global efforts to reduce the climate impacts of deforestation, and the dearth of a global response to the climate impacts of food production.

Clearcutting most often clears space for agriculture, suggesting agriculture's indirect climate impacts surpass the impacts of deforestation for timber and other commodities.

In time, the impacts of deforestation will become obvious.

For Ralph Dubayah, GEDI's principal investigator from the University of Maryland, the GEDI mission will answer questions about the biomass of trees in a given region, and the impact of deforestation and reforestation on the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Dating back to Hammurabi (who reportedly instituted the death penalty for cutting cedars when the impact of deforestation had become irreversible), societies have been slamming shut barn doors long after the cows have fled.

It continues with a rough estimate of China's forest cover and rate of deforestation, followed by an evaluation of the impact of deforestation on China's water resources, environment and economy.

If the impact of deforestation and other land - use changes is included, the total annual CO2 emission rate is equal to 6 - 8 billion tonnes of carbon.

Ngongo founded the OCEAN environment group in 1994, which exposed the impact of deforestation and monitored the plunder of minerals by warring factions during Congo's 1996 - 2002 civil wars.

As light increasingly gets shined on the impact of deforestation on accelerating climate change, we have a new report published in today's issue of Science which show

I should add that there is considerable uncertainty associated with the models suggesting decreases in rainfall, and uncertainty as to how Amazon forests may react (especially when one considers the impacts of deforestation, logging, and fire combined with climate change impacts).

The authors of the latest study say their results could help planners reduce the impact of deforestation.