Sentences with phrase «since global forests»

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General News of Monday, 14 May 2018 Source: Myjoyonline.com File photo Governments and forest actors are about to meet in Ghana to address commodity - driven deforestation, an issue that has risen in global prominence since many major food and consumer goods companies committed to ending deforestation in key supply chains in 2010.

In September, scientists examining global tree cover discovered that while there are 3 trillion trees on Earth — more than seven times as many as scientists thought — the planet has lost 46 percent of its forests since the onset of agriculture about 12,000 years ago.

For the first time, this study allowed researchers to analyse the effects of the climate change on the forest nutrient cycles, and states that Pyrenean forests can register these episodes chemical mark at a global scale (for instance, volcanic eruptions in remote areas) and the effects of gas emissions into the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution.

Rates of Tropical Deforestation Several international groups produce routine estimates of tropical deforestation, most notably the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, which has been producing a global forest resources assessment every five to ten years since the late 1940s.

Since that era, when rain forest destruction achieved something close to the visibility of global warming today, the World Bank and its sister institutions, including the International Finance Corporation, have been talking the sustainability talk.

I have been collected my kind of evidence (global weather news) for a few decades, particularly since about 2004, and was irritated at the assertion that forest health has not been affected by heat - trapping greenhouse gas accumulation and it's manifold consequences.

According to Global Witness — apart from the three forest patrollers slain last month — as many as 20 environmental advocates and campaigners have been killed in Cambodia since 2005.

The amount of melting that was caused by soot from forest fires is important to know, since global warming is likely to increase the amount of forest fires in coming decades.

Globally, scientists believe that worldwide forest clearing since the 1700s has had a small net cooling effect on global average surface temperature.

Lead by Brazil, which had the lowest extent of deforestation since at least the 1980s, global forest loss likely declined to its lowest level in more than a decade.

If the world's forests were to become a net source of carbon later in this century — as some scenarios suggest [32]-- the global EF would be infinite, since no amount of additional forest could suck the new additions of fossil carbon out of the air.

Since 1960, global industrial wood production has risen by 50 percent, to 1.5 billion cubic meters, four fifths of which is from primary and secondary - growth forests.

Since forests support not just ecosystems and species that are beautiful for their own sakes and valuable both as resources and as tourist attractions, but also deliver «services» in the form of water management and global air - conditioning, human settlements will soon feel their loss.

Since forests are — in general — agencies that absorb atmospheric carbon, and help cool the planet, any loss can only accelerate global warming and create even more difficult conditions for the surviving woodlands.

Since taking office, Bush has moved to review, weaken, or undo a host of the Clinton administration's environmental - protection policies dealing with global warming, air and water pollution, national forests, and national monuments.