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Northern Forests Less Effective Than Tropical Forests in Reducing Global Warming

...o the carbon emitted by motor vehicles, factories, deforestation and other sources. Of the approximately 8 billio... only about 100 million tons, even though tropical deforestation is occurring rapidly. "Our results indicate that intact tropical forests are taking up a large amo...

Deforestation Plays a Critical Role in Climate Change: Study

Avoiding deforestation in the tropics can play a key role in reducing fut...ate-carbon computer models and found that tropical deforestation releases 1.5 billion tonnes of carbon each year into the atmosphere. The results showed that tropi...

World Environment Day (International Polar Year)

... Taking steps to cut down burning of fossil fuels, deforestation and limiting the use of CFCs would significantly bring down the concentration of greenhouse gases and afford a safer environment. We have only this earth to live on; let's bequeath a good planet to our children-we owe it to them! Summing it up...

Ecologists Desperate to Save Dal Lake in Kashmir

... The well-known ecologist A. R. Yusaf says that deforestation in the catchments areas, degradation of the forests and soil-erosion have resulted in heavy silt flowing into the lake. People living around the lake allow large sewage to pollute the lake. Encroachment along the banks of the lake and in shallow w...

Earth Day Celebrated With Hopes of a Greener Tomorrow

...Link, an environmental NGO. 'The issue of stopping deforestation and felling of trees in the name of development needs to be addressed immediately and a day such as this is a good platform to raise consciousness among the people,' he said. Sensitisation of people is what Manoj Misra, convenor of the Yamuna Jiye ...

Flood Toll Rises, and Indonesia Braces for Disease

...and blamed clogged drains, trash-filled rivers and deforestation of hillsides south of the city for development. Critics also blame delays in extending a flood-control canal that carried excess water from overflowing rivers in this city where some neighborhoods lie below sea level. Responding to sharp criticis...

Ecological Changes affects human health, food security

...trast,’ Goodin said. Goodin attributes the rapid deforestation of Paraguay's rain forest, the Atlantic forest, as a cause for the landscape changes. He said the Atlantic forest is more of a biodiversity hot spot than the more famous Amazon forest. He said the forest is rapidly disappearing because people need th...

Satellite Imagery to monitor the Social Impact Of Geographical Changes

...trast," Goodin said. . Goodin attributes the rapid deforestation of Paraguay's rain forest, the Atlantic forest, as a cause for the landscape changes. He said the Atlantic forest is more of a biodiversity hot spot than the more famous Amazon forest. He said the forest is rapidly disappearing because people need th...

Will The Tropical Forests Survive The Deforestation Scenario?

...anization are the two main reasons that accelerate deforestation and result in mass extinction of the tropical fore...ical forest cover. According to their projections, deforestation rates will decrease as population growth slows, and a much larger area will continue to be forested ...

Humans force yet another species to extinction

...n to damage. And a new study says just that.Due to deforestation and genetic evidence the study points to a catastrophic collapse in orangutan populations// living in the fragmented forests of the Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary in Sabah, Malaysia. Benoit Goossens, Lounès Chikhi, The main researcher, Michael Br...

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