Sentences with phrase «widespread deforestation»

In Europe there was also the beginning of widespread deforestation as Bronze Age human communities started to use charcoal for smelting and extended agriculture to tilling and planting.

This growth rate, more than double that of the previous decade, is largely a result of China's logging ban, a policy enacted after widespread deforestation in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River valley left the countryside vulnerable to severe floods in 1998.

Take for example widespread deforestation which has exacerbated climate change.

As traditionally practiced in southeast Asia, oil palm cultivation is responsible for widespread deforestation that reduces biodiversity, degrades important ecological services, worsens climate change, and traps workers in inequitable conditions sometimes analogous to slavery.

However, critics argue that organic agriculture may have lower yields and would therefore need more land to produce the same amount of food as conventional farms, resulting in more widespread deforestation and biodiversity loss, and thus undermining the environmental benefits of organic practices5.

In an attempt to improve environmental governance of Sumatra's once - extensive tropical forests, a publicly accessible Web site showing detailed maps of widespread deforestation on the Indonesian island over the past few decades has just been launched.

This is exacerbated by widespread deforestation which destroys natural carbon sinks.

It could end up as merely an exercise on paper that promotes widespread deforestation and higher food prices.»

Environmental groups across the nation have warned of widespread deforestation if the measure passes the Senate and is signed by the president.

Mongabay: How do you think widespread deforestation will effect the hydrological cycle of places like the Indonesian islands?

The rapid expansion of palm oil, driven by rising global demand for food and fuel, has been linked to widespread deforestation in Southeast Asia, the source of about 85 percent of palm oil.

«It could also underline the dangers of widespread deforestation.»

The WHRC said that widespread deforestation, degradation and disturbance had caused forests to become a «source» of carbon rather than a net carbon «sink.»

Thus we live now with the fruits of the actions of early industrial capitalism, nuclear weapons used in World War II, the Green Revolution, widespread deforestation.

Meanwhile, researchers probing the climate in pre-Columbian Central America figure that widespread deforestation had a hand in the droughts thought to have toppled the Mayan, Toltec and Aztec civilizations.

However, the way in which it is currently produced and harvested has had a devastating environmental impact on many regions of the world, leading to widespread deforestation and threatening many species.

But behind this aromatic export lies a community of farmers and families that face huge daily challenges — including lack of access to safe water and widespread deforestation of their land.

In Pakistan, the pressures of a large and fast - growing population have contributed to widespread deforestation and soil degradation, making the historic flooding events of the last two years even more destructive.

Several climate models that scientists use to understand the impact of carbon emissions from sources such as the burning of fossil fuels and widespread deforestation have linked changes in atmospheric chemistry with bumps in tree growth.