Deforestation

Will The Tropical Forests Survive The Deforestation Scenario?

Tropical forests are slowly being removed from the face of the earth by the process of deforestation. This is done to satisfy the growing needs// of the human population. This has resulted in complete extinction of the forest species. Humans in rural settings contribute most to deforestation. Grow...

Nu Skin Charitable Promotion Reaches Important Milestone: 100,000 Trees Donated to African Nation of Malawi

...ne tree in Malawi," said Scott Schwerdt, president of Nu Skin's Americas, Europe and Pacific regions. "Malawi suffers from one of the highest rates of deforestation in the world. Drought is also a main concern in Malawi, and trees help produce the much-needed rain. Through this reforestation program supported by...

Could preserving biodiversity reduce disease?

... and characterize the mechanisms that link environmental stressors, such as deforestation and climate change, to the loss of biodiversity and the transmission of inf... integrate data on ecosystems, human health, and man-made stressors such as deforestation to investigate how environmental factors and people's behaviors contribute ...

Cleaner Air May Threaten Amazon Rainforest

...tudy. Any major change to the Amazon's vegetation as a result of drought or deforestation has a major impact on the Earth's climate system. "The rainforest is under many pressures. Direct deforestation is the most obvious immediate threat, but climate change is also a big issu...

East African Experts Discuss Population, Health, Environment at Wilson Center

...irector of the Jane Goodall Institute's Greater Gombe Ecosystem Program in Tanzania, which supports sustainable livelihood projects designed to reduce deforestation and rebuild chimpanzee habitat. This meeting is the fifth event in ECSP's year-long meeting series "PHE: Building the Foundation for the Next 10 Y...

Rich nations' environmental footprints tread heavily on poor countries

...icant human activities with environmental costs and thus provides a context for the earlier studies. The study makes clear, for example, that while deforestation and agricultural intensification primarily impact the host country, the impacts from climate change and ozone depletion are spread widely over all nat...

Northern Forests Less Effective Than Tropical Forests in Reducing Global Warming

...what ultimately happens to the carbon emitted by motor vehicles, factories, deforestation and other sources. Of the approximately 8 billion tons of carbon em...ems are the net source of only about 100 million tons, even though tropical deforestation is occurring rapidly. "Our results indicate that intact tropical fo...

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 in..., said Dr Canadell. He said while tropical deforestation will continue, slowing the amount of clearing will...

World Environment Day (International Polar Year)

...l activities, emissions from industries and automobiles as the most likely causes of global warming. 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 on...

Ecologists Desperate to Save Dal Lake in Kashmir

... Raw sewage and land encroachment are some of the major factors causing the problem. 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 ...

Deforestation in Biological News

The drivers of tropical deforestation are changing, say scientists

A shift from poverty-driven to industry-driven deforestation threatens the world's tropical forests but offers new opportunities for conservation, according to an article coauthored by William Laurance of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. "New Strategies for Conserving Tropica...

Purdue researchers propose way to incorporate deforestation into climate change treaty

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University researchers have proposed a new option for incorporating deforestation into the international climate change treaty. Kevin Gurney, lead author of the proposal and an associate director of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center, will provide testimony ...

Forest peoples' rights key to reducing emissions from deforestation

OSLO (15 October 2008)Unless based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples and forest communities, efforts by rich countries to combat climate change by funding reductions in deforestation in developing countries will fail, and could even unleash a devastating wave of forest loss, cultural...

Confirmed -- deforestation plays critical climate change role

Dr Pep Canadell, from the Global Carbon Project and CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, says today in the journal Science that tropical deforestation releases 1.5 billion tonnes of carbon each year into the atmosphere. "Deforestation in the tropics accounts for nearly 20 per cent of carbon em...

End of deforestation in view? Experts advance new way to size up global forest resources

An increasing number of countries and regions are transitioning from deforestation to afforestation, raising hopes for a turning point for the world as a whole, according to researchers advancing a more sophisticated approach to measuring forest cover. The novel approach looks beyond simply how m...

Report shows deforestation threatens Brazil's Pantanal

Deforestation from increased grazing and agriculture has destroyed 17 percent of the native vegetation in Brazil's Pantanal, considered the world's largest wetland. A new study published by Conservation International sounds an alarm for the Paraguay River Basin, which includes the Pantanal. Conti...

Tropical Atlantic cooling and African deforestation correlate to drought, report scientists

Against the backdrop of the Montreal Summit on global climate being held this week, an article on African droughts and monsoons, by a University of California, Santa Barbara scientist and others, which appears in the December issue of the journal Geology, underlines concern about the effects of glo...

Tropical Deforestation affects rainfall in the U.S. and around the globe

Today, scientists estimate that between one-third and one-half of our planet's land surfaces have been transformed by human development. Now, a new study is offering insight into the long-term impacts of these changes, particularly the effects of large-scale deforestation in tropical regions on t...

Climate change poker: The barriers which are preventing a global agreement

...er barriers delegates will face in their bid to reach an agreement on a post-2012 framework are issues evolving around the reduction of emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and how to implement adaptation to climate change. Even if some consensus is reached in Copenhagen, there is however no gua...

New monkey discovered in Brazil

...the region, particularly a major highway cutting through the Amazon that is currently being paved. Conservationists fear the highway could fuel wider deforestation in the Amazon over the next two decades. Other threats to the region include a proposed gas pipeline and two hydroelectric dams currently in the begin...

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Deforestation in Biological Technology

Oil palm plantations are no substitute for tropical rainforests, a new study shows

...e over the role of palm oil production in tropical deforestation and its impacts on biodiversity. We wanted to put ...nal Trends in Ecology and Evolution, singles out deforestation associated with plantation development as by far t...ng rapidly and 'its potential as a future agent of deforestation is enormous', the study says. Most of the suita...

Innovate, Automate, or Improve? You Don't Have to Choose.

... methodologies. Peel away all the surveys and focus groups, benchmarks and best practices, the endless narratives, user stories, use cases and general deforestation by documentation and what youve got is the belief that somebody or some other organization knows the answer. Guess what? Innovation, especially with t...

Living the sweet life... in IT?

...lo. We're getting pretty good at the ISO 9000, Sarbanes-Oxley, explicit part of our work lives. Continuous improvement, best practices, and general deforestation by documentation are certainly getting a lot of attention, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. But we still struggle with the less formal, more im...

Deforestation in Biological Definition

Biodiversity

...t so much by a species overuse or ecosystem degradation than by their conversion in very standardized ecosystems (e.g., monoculture following deforestation ). Before 1992, others pointed out that no property rights or no access regulation of resources necessarily lead to their decrease (degrading costs...