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Check out these curious facts to learn more about deforestation effects on global warming.
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Fact#5
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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Fact#6
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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Fact#10
Deforestation often occurs because of a lack of awareness and knowledge about how our actions affect our environment.
Video Credit: Riobersinho Aguilar Q from Pixabay
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Fact#11
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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Fact#14
The estimated total emissions associated with Amazon cattle ranching ranged from 499 to 775 Mt CO2eq.
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Fact#16
Tropical forests are incredibly effective at storing carbon, providing at least a third of the mitigation action needed
to prevent the worst climate change scenarios.
Video Credit: Riobersinho Aguilar Q from Pixabay
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Fact#17
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.
Photo credit: LivingAmazone
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Fact#18
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#20
Around 80% of our favorite foods originally came from rainforests including coffee, chocolate, rice, tomatoes, potatoes, bananas, black pepper, pineapples and corn.
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