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Jul 10, 2024 · In this context, decreasing tropical deforestation is a key element to meet these pledges. However, beyond forest conversions to agriculture, mining or infrastructure, far less attention has been given to the degree of human modification of remaining forests, even though tropical forest degradation can often affect a greater area than deforestation itself.
2 days ago · The results were not long in coming: Deforestation was halved by 2023 in the Brazilian Amazon. This trend has continued. According to INPE, 1,800 km 2 of forest were destroyed in the first six ...
6 days ago · No. Driven almost entirely by the expansion of agriculture, deforestation continues at a breakneck pace. The world has lost 420 million hectares of forests since 1990, found the Food and Agriculture Organization. That is an area about half the size of China. From 2015-2020, the rate of deforestation was 10 million hectares a year, an area about ...
2 days ago · Illegal deforestation in Guatemala’s Sierra del Lacandón National Park is accelerating, driven by cattle ranching and drug-trafficking activities. The park is a critical biological corridor ...
Jul 16, 2024 · Exploring the indirect effects of foreign investments on deforestation for food production remains challenging due to a lack of reliable and consistent data on and transparency in FDI flows and ...
Jul 8, 2024 · Deforestation fell nationwide to about 792 square kilometers (about 305 square miles) in 2023, down from about 1,235 square kilometers (about 477 square miles) a year earlier. A little over half of the deforestation came in the Amazon. ... A significant rise in deforestation has already been recorded due to the effects of dry weather caused by El Nino, Muhamad said, which is a weather phenomenon that warms the central Pacific. Mass cattle ranching, drug crops and illegal mining and logging ...
Jul 17, 2024 · Under the denuded slopes of Mount Nyiragongo volcano in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, traders in Kibati town bartered over sacks of charcoal, a product of deforestation that an ongoing ...
Jul 16, 2024 · The EU law aims to prevent consumption within the bloc from causing deforestation beyond its borders by banning the import of products made from cattle, wood, cocoa, soy, palm oil, coffee and ...
2 days ago · “Forests and trees are essential components of agrifood systems. The removal of forest cover, especially in the tropics, increases local temperatures and disrupts rainfall patterns in ways that compound the local effects of global climate change, with potentially severe consequences for agricultural productivity,” the report warned.
Jan 25, 2023 · The consequences of deforestation are fatal and include climate change, soil erosion, desertification, flooding, fewer crops and increased greenhouse gases—deforestation results in habitat loss for a wide range of flora and fauna.
