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Apr 8, 2024 · Deforestation, clearing or thinning of forests by humans to make the land available for other uses. Deforestation is a major driver of terrestrial habitat loss and habitat fragmentation and contributes to global warming. Learn about historical and modern deforestation and its effects.
Dec 7, 2022 · Deforestation’s effects reach far beyond the people and animals where trees are cut. The South American rainforest, for example, influences regional and perhaps even global water cycles, ...
Global deforestation peaked in the 1980s. Can we bring it to an end? Since the end of the last great ice age – 10,000 years ago – the world has lost one-third of its forests. 5 Two billion hectares of forest – an area twice the size of the United States – has been cleared to grow crops, raise livestock, and use for fuelwood. In a previous post we looked at this change in global forests ...
More than 30 percent of the Earth’s land is covered by forests. The Earth loses about 38,610 square miles of forest every year. Ninety-six percent of global deforestation occurs in tropical forests.; More than half of the planet’s tropical rainforests have been destroyed or degraded.; Due to deforestation, as many as 28,000 species are predicted to become extinct by 2050.
Sep 3, 2021 · If there was a poster-child of environmental degradation, surely it is deforestation. The removal of trees - for example, through logging or fires - has, for many decades, been listed as one of ...
Drivers of deforestation vary from region to region, but forests tend to fare better when the responses reinforce one another. Take, for example, the Brazilian Amazon, where diverse protection measures—Indigenous land rights, protected areas, and more reliable forest monitoring—slowed forest loss between 2004 and 2012.
Apr 20, 2021 · 30 per cent of emissions from industry and fossil fuels are soaked up by forests and woodlands. Yet every year the world loses 10 million hectares of forest. Deforestation and forest degradation accounts for 11 per cent of carbon emissions. The Green Gigaton Challenge catalyzes public and private funds to combat deforestation and thereby cut annual emissions by 1 gigaton by 2025.
