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Check out these curious facts to learn more about deforestation effects on global warming.
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Deforestation refers to the decrease in forest areas across the world that are lost for other uses such as agricultural croplands, urbanization, or mining activities.
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It is estimated that more than 1.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide or the equivalence greenhouse gas emissions from approximately 300 million passenger vehicles driven for one year; are released into the atmosphere due to deforestation.
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The most straightforward personal strategy to fight against deforestation is to plant a tree. Planting a tree could be considered a lifelong investment into the environment and your good mental health.
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Did you know?
You can plant trees by googling on the internet. Ecosia is a search engine Social Enterprise, that use its profit from ads to plant trees in some of the harshest places on EarthThere is a Social Enterprise that use their profit from adds to plant trees.
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Anyone can collaborate against illegal logging by volunteering in forest management groups that in many cases are nonprofit organizations. They rely on people like you and me to help them spread awareness about logging.
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Deforestation often occurs because of a lack of awareness and knowledge about how our actions affect our environment.
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A major contributor by human hands to global warming is tropical deforestation by fire. When these forests are burned, they release huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere and in addition, because the forests no longer exist, they are no longer available to absorb CO2.
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New estimates suggest the Amazon rainforest fires have produced as much as 140 million metric tons of carbon dioxide. That’s the equivalent of the annual emissions from about 30 million cars.
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Many rainforest have been burnt down to make way for cattle farming. It is estimated that for each pound of beef produced, 200 square feet of rainforest are destroyed.
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We can contribute against cattle farming by reducing the amount of meat we eat, this will help lower the global demand for meat and help prevent further destruction of forests to make way for more livestock.
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The Amazon encompass the single largest remaining tropical rainforest in the world, it also houses at least 10% of the world’s known biodiversity, including endemic and endangered flora and fauna, and its river accounts for 15-16% of the world’s total river discharge into the oceans.
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Tropical forests not only provide oxygen for us to breathe, but also take CO2 out of the atmosphere and store much more carbon than forests in temperate regions. Losing such forests greatly hampers Earth’s ability to remove carbon from the atmosphere and avoid the worst effects of global warming.
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Fact#19
Rainforests store water like a huge sponge. In fact, it is believed that the Amazonian forests alone store over half of the Earth's rainwater!
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