Papers 111-120 of total 493 found.
…The topic of environmentalism has been increasingly talked about in the media, from the Koyto Protocol and climate change to the deforestation of British Columbia's temperate rainforest. The public is continually informed of the degradation that has…
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…The destructive dangers of deforestation and pollution have negatively affected forest environments all over the world. Also current events such as the chaotic forest fires in Spain and Portugal during the summer of 2005 have not only killed dozens…
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Category: /Social Sciences
…. Forestry basically means the managing the forests and related natural resources. In many countries forestry is important ecologically and economically. The problem about forestry is deforestation caused by cutting own trees. When the growth of a forest starts…
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…temperature and precipitation. Economists also believe that these uses outweigh other possible uses of the rainforests such as farmers converting the land to cattle pastures, agricultural fields, or tree plantations. Deforestation Despite their uniqueness…
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Category: /Literature/English
…had collapsed largely because of crop failure due to high soil salinity. The same soil pollution problem exists today in the Indus Valley in Pakistan, the Nile Valley in Egypt, and the Imperial Valley in California. • Deforestation Despite…
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Category: /Law & Government
…number of lakes and streams; industrial emissions choking the majority of Chinese citizenry; massive deforestation (over centuries) resulting in a quarter of the land being turned into desert; these are only a handful of the problems which China is forced…
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…government found an unexpectedly high rate of deforestation and showed that over 9,000 square miles of Amazon forests in Brazil, an area more than twice the size of Connecticut; disappeared between July 2001 and June 2002. According to government statistics…
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Category: /Literature/English
…As if the fuel wood crisis wasn’t enough of a drain on the forests of Africa, there are several other uses for wood that contribute to deforestation and land degradation, such as logging, which is among the major threat to African forests…
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…has accelerated the pace of land use change. Hectares required for global food production now fall near the lower limit of estimated cultivable hectares (Meadows et al., 1992), which implicates in deforestation. In recent years, there has been a focus…
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Category: /Literature/English
…aided by human activity. Humans will continue to consume the world around them until there is nothing left. Deforestation by clear cutting or forest fires directly affects the climate in that region; rainfall becomes irregular and unreliable while…
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