Sentences with phrase «recent global forest»

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In recent years, China single - handedly accounted for about 15 per cent of global GDP and half of global growth — namely by sucking up the world's supplies of raw materials and using them to build everything from high - speed railways to forests of apartment towers to house its 1.3 billion people.

These results explain the difference between recent global estimates of forest «land use» area (3890 Mha) and the area with a «land cover,» the authors say.

Global warming and deforestation together pose a rising threat to the Amazon rain forest, but recent modeling studies could be overstating the threat of a big die - off of trees, ecologists say.

When Mckibben mentioined: «We might even have to consider currently far - fetched schemes to pull CO2 out of the atmosphere», I can only hope the next administration won't listen to people like «Wired» magazine that had a recent article on how ancient forests are contributing to global warming.

For every degree of global warming, the forest needs a 15 percent increase in precipitation to compensate for the increased drying caused by warming, according to a recent study.

Recent research found that natural solutions like improved management of forests, wetlands, grasslands and agricultural lands can remove about 5.6 GtCO2e of carbon per year by 2030 — a figure equivalent to total global emissions from agriculture in 2014 — at a cost of less than $ 100 per tonne of carbon.

Actual carbon uptake by global forests has fluctuated significantly in recent decades, between zero and 6 gigatons per year.

Direct human intervention via deforestation represents an existential threat to this forest: despite recent moderation of rates of deforestation, the Amazon forest is on track to be 50 percent deforested within 30 years — arguably by itself an abrupt change of global importance (Fearnside, 1983; Gloor et al., 2012).

Despite the troubles of recent years, forests continue to take up a large amount of carbon, with some regions, including the Eastern United States, being especially important as global carbon absorbers.

As highlighted by the recent Global Witness report «A Conflict of Interests: The uncertain future of Burma's forests», the timber trade in Burma is unregulated, highly destructive of the environment and intertwined with corruption, illegality, and armed conflict.

That conclusion is based not on climate models or recent trends in forest fires, but rather on records of forest fires that occurred more than a millennium ago, during the Medieval Climate Anomaly, a period when global temperatures were comparable to what they are today, and about half a degree warmer (on the Celsius scale) than they had been for several centuries prior.

In addition to local weather patterns, shaped by climate change, a review of Chile's wildfires published in the Global and Planetary Change journal warned that the «pattern, frequency and intensity» of wildfires in the country «has grown at an alarming rate» in recent years, partly because of intensive forest management practices that have led to a large amount of flammable fuel in the country's forests.

Recent multi model estimates based on different CMIP3 climate scenarios and different dynamic global vegetation models predict a moderate risk of tropical forest reduction in South America and even lower risk for African and Asian tropical forests (see also Section 12.5.5.6)(Gumpenberger et al., 2010; Huntingford et al., 2013).»