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Today 500,000 hectors vanish in a single week ("Logging is the Major Cause of Global Deforestation" 1). There is no one easy answer as there are many causes at the root of deforestation. One is overpopulation in cities and developing countries.
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www.umich.edu/~gs265/society/deforestation.htm
www.umich.edu/~gs265/society/deforestation.htm
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“We are working to solve two of the key environmental issues – deforestation and global warming – at the same time,” said FAO Senior Forestry Officer Dieter Schoene. Trees are 50 percent carbon. When they are felled or burned, the C02 they store escapes back into the air.
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www.fao.org/newsroom/EN/news/2006/1000385/index.html
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Deforestation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Deforestation is the clearance of naturally occurring forests by the processes of logging and/or burning of trees in a forested area. There are several reasons deforestation occurs: trees or derived ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation
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They are: enviromental effects, local social effects, and global social effects. Many of the enviromental effects contribute to the severity of the social problems. That is why it is important to understand the enviromental effects of deforestation and how they contribute to the social effects of deforestation.
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www.earlham.edu/~pols/17Fall96/inneske/effects.HTM
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Current information about climate and the environment. ... Although deforestation meets some human needs, it also has profound, sometimes devastating, consequences, including social conflict, extinction of plants and animals, and climate change—challenges that aren’t just local, but global.
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earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/Deforestation/
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/Deforestation/
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The speed of global deforestation is showing signs of slowing down because of new planting and natural forest extension, a UN agency has said. ... "The deforestation continues at an alarming rate, but thanks to efforts in planting new trees and restoring degraded lands as well as natural [forest] expansion in some regions,
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news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4436116.stm
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Well documented in North America, this fern spike signals widespread deforestation due to an impact winter or massive wildfires. A Southern Hemisphere record of a fern spike, together with a large iridium anomaly, indicates that the devastation was truly global.
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www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/294/5547/1700
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Rainforests may be hardier than assumed, according to research which cites examples of regrowth as well as querying the assumption of global deforestation ... "Every few years we get a new estimate of the annual rate of tropical deforestation. They always seem ... 3. How the climate change global editorial project came about...
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www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jan/08/forests.clim...
www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/jan/08/forests.climatechange
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Evidence of rampant deforestation around the globe points in one direction: booming demand in China, where economic growth is fuelling a timber feeding frenzy. ... Using touch screens on specially designed handheld global positioning system (GPS) units, the villagers mark the location of everything from sacred trees to...
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www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSSP309422200...
www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSSP30942220070610?src=061107_1011_FEATURES_environment
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