Sentences with phrase «released by deforestation»

Carbon released by deforestation is a major contributor to climate change, accounting for about 10 % of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Temperatures around the world are rising due to the ever - increasing greenhouse gas emissions most of which come from burning fossil fuels — coal, oil, and gas — for energy, but which are also released by deforestation and industrialized agriculture.

Not exact matches

That is not even close to enough to balance the 1.8 billion tons (1.6 gigatonnes) released into the atmosphere by deforestation or crop - clearing.

In a letter sent to Senate leaders on 24 February and released earlier this week by the Massachusetts - based Woods Hole Research Center, 65 scientists warned that «this well - intentioned legislation, which claims to address climate change, would in fact promote deforestation in the U.S. and elsewhere and make climate change much worse.»

The Earth Engine, according to Google's press release, will allow researchers to study Earth's surface, especially deforestation, by trawling through a database containing trillions of data points from satellite images collected over the past 25 years and by viewing results with the Google Earth viewer.

Over time, these missions can help give scientists clues to how much carbon is being absorbed by growing forests, and how it's being released into the atmosphere through forest fires and deforestation.

Just a few days after the launch, new figures released by the Brazilian National Research Institute say deforestation went up by 134 % from July to August, and that the 756 kilometers lost represent 228 % more than the figures from the same month last year.

A study released this year by the World Resources Institute and the Rights and Resources Initiative found that rates of deforestation are, on average, 11 times lower in community forests with strong legal recognition, and indigenous people have official rights to about an eighth of the world's forest area.

«Due to human activities such as the combustion of fossil fuels and deforestation, and the increased release of CO2 from the oceans due to the increase in the Earth's temperature, the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide has increased by about 35 % since the beginning of the age of industrialization.»

The Greenomics» analysis supports allegations originally set forth in a report published last week by Eyes on the Forest, a coalition of green groups, and seems to refute a press release issued by APP that called the deforestation allegations «fiction».

In fact, a report released by Forest Trends this year found that almost three - quarters of deforestation between 2000 and 2012 was caused by commercial agriculture, a significant shift from the timber industry that drove the majority of deforestation in the 20th century.

«In considering the question of human activity and climate change it is essential to distinguish between global warming, which is a progressive increase in the annual mean global temperature, and human - activity - induced greenhouse warming, as may, for example, be caused by the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as a result of fossil fuel combustion or deforestation.»

The amount of carbon released into the atmosphere by tropical deforestation could be 12 % less than estimated, scientists claimed.

Illegal deforestation takes on many forms around the world, and according to new research released today by Ecosystem Marketplace publisher Forest Trends it is more rampant than previously understood.

They report that stopping deforestation and allowing young secondary forests to grow back could establish a «forest sink» — an area that absorbs carbon dioxide rather than releasing it into the atmosphere — which by 2100 could grow by over 100 billion metric tons of carbon, about ten times the current annual rate of global fossil fuel emissions.

Which is part of the reason they come out with stupid comments like the end of Himalayan glaciers by 2035, but on second thought, maybe we meant 2350... http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/IPCC-retracts-2035-alarm-on-Himalayan-glacier-melt/articleshow/5482397.cms Releasing this much carbon is not a good thing, but when you look at the larger picture, our increasing carbon in the atmosphere from 0.032 % to 0.039 % is small beer compared to deforestation and our increasing global population.

«The 2017 Brazilian Amazon deforestation rate released by the federal government is still alarming.

While carbon accounting at the scale of individual households and their landholdings is unlikely in the near future, nations and regions need efficient methods to determine how much carbon is held and released within their borders - and this applies even more to the monitoring of projects to store carbon by means of tree plantings and deforestation reduction (e.g..

A new study finds that putting a price on carbon could drastically reduce the amount of deforestation in the tropics by 2050: $ 20 per metric ton (about $ 18 / short ton) could diminish deforestation by nearly 16 percent and the associated burst of carbon released into the atmosphere by nearly 25 percent.

Analysis released by Imazon, an NGO, revealed a sharp increase in «degradation», which is often a precursor to deforestation.

These briefs tie to the larger study on «Understanding Drivers and Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Nepal: Potential Policies and Measures for REDD +», supported by the UN-REDD programme, which will be released early next year.

This increase is due to a few centuries of human activities that have released carbon stored by plants — initially in the form of trees (deforestation), and more recently also in the form of fossil plants (fossil fuels).

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Amazon deforestation dropped 51 percent from August 2009 to February 2010 when compared to the same period from 2008 to 2009, according to figures released this week by Brazil's National

According to a statement released by the Brazilian government, the latest figures on the rate of deforestation in the world largest rainforest show a drop to the lowest levels since satellite monitoring began in 1988.

According to a report released earlier this year by INTERPOL and UNEP, deforestation, civil war, and the rampant bushmeat trade could cause gorillas in the Congo Basin to go extinct in the next 10 - 15 years.