Sentences with phrase «mainly by deforestation»

Forest fires are no longer driven mainly by deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, with climate change induced drought now taking a major role.

It is also affected by the increase of the practice of changing land use, mainly by deforestation for agricultural purposes.

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Although overall deforestation rates in the region are still lower than they are in parts of the Amazon and Southeast Asia, deforestation has accelerated over the past few years, driven mainly by the establishment of large - scale agricultural and mining operations.

Rapid deforestation, mainly due to the oil palm industry and other agricultural plantations, illegal pet trade and poaching by killing mothers so their young can be taken, has resulted in the population in Borneo decreasing by more than 50 percent.

The research, published in Nature Geoscience and led by researchers from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the University of Exeter, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et l'Environnement, the University of Hawai'i and ETH Zürich, has for the first time shown that increased leaching of carbon from soil, mainly due to deforestation, sewage inputs and increased weathering, has resulted in less carbon being stored on land and more stored in rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries and coastal zones — environments that are together known as the «land - ocean aquatic continuum».

Indonesia is crafting policies — in part with external help from Norway and other wealthy countries — to cut its total emissions, mainly by slowing deforestation.

Together, the projects being developed collectively by Cacao del Perú Norte S.A.C. (operating a cacao plantation in Loreto), Plantaciones de Ucayali S.A.C., and Plantaciones de Pucallpa S.A.C. (both operating oil palm plantations in Ucayali), are responsible for over 11,000 hectares of illegal deforestation, mainly of primary tropical rainforest.

can only be accounted for by anthropogenic processes — mainly fossil fuel burning and deforestation, with little room for other variables.

This includes emissions from deforestation of around 3 PgC / year compensated by an uptake of around 2 PgC / year by forest regrowth (mainly on abandoned agricultural land).

(Top) Fossil fuel and cement CO2 emissions by category (Bottom) Fossil fuel and cement CO2 emissions, CO2 emissions from net land use change (mainly deforestation), the atmospheric CO2 growth rate, the ocean CO2 sink and the residual land sink which represents the sink of anthropogenic CO2 in natural land ecosystems.