Sentences with phrase «turned tropical forests»

Their new civilization turned tropical forests into boats and building materials.

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Tropical forests, once cut, leave exposed a soil that turns to rock.

The finding suggests that an increase in hurricanes and tropical storms induced by global warming could turn forests into overall emitters of carbon dioxide, fuelling further climate change.

These patterns in turn may have implications for future C cycling and sequestration in tropical forests, as changes in environmental conditions lead to shifts in abundances of herbivore populations.

It turns out the coastal tropical forest is in the worst shape, taking up only 11 percent of its original surface and having split into 245,173 fragments.

Turning your gaze toward land, you'll find over 1,000 acres of tropical forest, hills, and valleys.

Under some global warming scenarios, Amazonia becomes so significantly drier that parts of the tropical forest begin turning into savannah.

They challenge the longstanding view of Richard Lindzen and others that there are natural regulators built in to the tropical climate system that «let off steam» in a way; but they also challenge those using the specter of tropical warming — including the Amazon rain forest turning into a desert — as another reason to move swiftly to curb greenhouse gases.

But as anyone who has worked on forestry issues — particularly in the tropical regions home to the world's greatest biodiversity — knows, the demise of natural forests usually comes in the form of a double whammy: first come the loggersbut then come the settlers who turn the land into farms or plantations, preventing the re-growth of natural forest.

During each glacial period the tropics became both cooler and drier, turning some areas of tropical rain forest into dry seasonal forest or savanna.

Researchers have repeatedly warned that climate change puts biodiversity at risk, especially in the tropical forests, themselves at risk from global warming that will have consequences that could in turn accelerate forest loss and the biodiversity of life sheltered by those forests, embracing both vegetation and the creatures that depend on the vegetation.

They thought tropical deforestation, plowing the prairie, cutting down the forest to build suburbs — all that stuff was, on the net, turning plant material into CO2.

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«Green lawns and sand traps are now replacing ancient villages and tropical forests on Hainan Island, one of China's most pristine spots,» according to Foreign Policy, which recently published a photo essay by writer Dan Washburn and photographer Ryan Pyle about golf development on the island, which the Chinese government aims to turn into a top tourism destination within the next decade.

While deforestation has been the focus of most research into forests» effects on climate change, with a recent study suggesting tropical forests are turning into carbon sources rather than carbon stores as a result, the impact of warming soils has remained much of a mystery.