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Hace 4 días · Deforestation is a major contributor to climate change, both through the release of carbon dioxide stored in trees and the disruption of ecosystems’ ability to sequester carbon. Forests act as carbon sinks, absorbing and storing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Hace 3 días · Forests are home to an estimated 80% of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity. The destruction of these habitats has profound effects on plant and animal species: Species Extinction. Loss of Habitat: Many species are highly specialized and depend on specific forest habitats for their survival.
Hace 1 día · Impact: Exacerbates deforestation and contributes to corruption and social conflicts. Modern Deforestation. Modern deforestation refers to the large-scale clearing of forests, primarily driven by human activities. This process has significant environmental, social, and economic impacts.
Hace 3 días · Some human activities that cause damage (either directly or indirectly) to the environment on a global scale include population growth, [11] [12] [13] neoliberal economic policies [14] [15] [16] and rapid economic growth, [17] overconsumption, overexploitation, pollution, and deforestation.
Hace 3 días · Deforestation drives a shift toward more widespread, shallower clouds during the daytime, with amplified effects in dry inland areas compared with moist coastal regions. Aerosols only weakly modulate the cloud fraction response, but offset the cloud top height response to deforestation, suggesting the influence of aerosol indirect effects.
Hace 2 días · November 1, 2021 - More than 100 countries, encompassing 85% of the world’s forests have pledged to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030 in the first major commitment at the COP26 climate summit.
Hace 11 horas · Laboratories tend to be concealed under tree cover, so their environmental impact does not come from deforestation, but rather from the dumping of chemical residues into rivers and, to a lesser extent, on land, explained a Bolivian drug trafficking expert who spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons.
