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EO Library: Tropical Deforestation Fact Sheet

As trees and plants are cleared away, the moist canopy of the tropical rain forest quickly diminishes. Recent research suggests that about half of the ...

These farmers show that agriculture in the Amazon doesn't have to ...

So far, nearly a fifth of the Amazon has been cleared. But because agroforestry systems require far less land than cattle to make a living, they ...

Tropical forest loss puts target of zero deforestation by 2030 further ...

JAKARTA — The tropics continue to lose primary forest at an alarming rate, with an area of tree cover half the size of Panama disappearing in ...

Greenland - Forest Trends

More... December 21, 2022. Half of tropical forestland cleared for agriculture isn't put to use, research shows. Agriculture is the primary driver of tropical ...

Deforestation in the Amazon: past, present and future - InfoAmazonia

According to the pessimistic scenario, in just five years, the largest tropical forest on earth will lose half of what it lost in the last 20 ...

Land Clearing with Excavator and Chained Bulldozer - YouTube

... cleared land for a profit, as well as small farmers who slashed and burned forest but lacked the resources to actually use the land productively

State of the World's Forests 2020

Agricultural expansion is the main driver of deforestation and the associated loss of forest biodiversity. In order to halt such loss, we need to transform our ...

How Deforestation Works - Science | HowStuffWorks

Although deforestation occurs worldwide, it's a particularly critical issue in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil. There, the tropical forests, ...

Stop Deforestation - Rainforest Action Network

Tropical rainforests teeming with life are burned, bulldozed, and cleared to make room for monoculture crops. The products that are made with these crops — ...

Deforestation explained - Wilderness Society

And nearly half of Australia's forest cover has been destroyed in the last 200 years. ... clearing is for mining, urban development and agricultural expansion in ...

The Rain Forest: One Hundred Acres a Minute? - Fraser Institute

12 Tropical rain forests are less than half the total forest in every area except Asia. ♢ So when books claim that “100 acres a minute” (40.5 hectares) of.

Trees of life | World Resources Institute

Where land is truly well suited to agriculture or other development activities, some forest clearing makes sense. Certainly, not every tree is sacred. But, at ...

Clear-Cutting: Pros And Cons Of The Typical Forestry Practice

On the contrary, deforestation is a practice to permanently log forests for other land use (agriculture, infrastructure objects like roads and ...

The alarming decline of Earth's forests, in 4 charts - Vox

Alarmingly, the world lost 10 percent more tropical forest in 2022 compared to the previous year, indicating that countries are, on the whole, ...

Death in the Forest: Deforestation Effects on Animals and What You ...

Most of the options out there – designating national parks, reducing agricultural expansion – run into the same problem. And this problem is ...

Why deforestation matters—and what we can do to stop it

But we can still save our forests. Aggressive efforts to rewild and reforest are already showing success. Tropical tree cover alone can provide 23 percent of ...

Ask an Amazon Expert: Why We Can't Afford to Lose the Rainforest

The existing forest is absorbing some carbon dioxide already. In terms of the global carbon cycle, tropical forests have a carbon sink roughly ...

Devastating Deforestation Statistics: Impact Of Forest Loss

80% of the Tropical Forest Loss Is Attributed to Agricultural Land (Our World in Data). deforestation in the united states Photo Courtesy of @ ...

Why Maintaining Tropical Forests Is Essential and Urgent for a ...

If sequestration in mature forests (~1.0 Gt C/ year) is included in the tropical forest sink, tropical forests have removed 22–26 % of all anthropogenic carbon.

Carbon Sequestration by Tropical Trees and Crops: A Case Study of ...

Up to Half of Tropical Forestland Cleared for Agriculture Isn't Put to Use, Research Shows. Mongabay, Available online: https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/half ...