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…furthering deforestation and encroachment on wildlife habitat. Furthermore, this leads to global warming. As urban conditions deteriorate more of its population moves out seeking better conditions. As a result service sector jobs move out of the city…

…purchasing fuelwood. A high demand for these natural resources creates environmental problems such as deforestation and erosion. When sources of fuelwood are low, the people resort to burning dried animal dung and crop residues. These resources, which should…

…. This program studies aspects like political, socio-economic and also the bio-physical related to land degradation and ultimately desertification. One of the ways to stop degradation of the land and desertification is to stop deforestation. This causes the land…

…and growing by 60 million people a year, is being devastated by growth population. Every year we lose 78 million acres of invaluable rainforest. If the deforests continues, scientists estimate nearly all tropical rainforest ecosystems will be destroyed by 2030…

…fuels burned to run cars and trucks, heat homes and businesses, and power factories are responsible for about 98% of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, 24% of methane emissions, and 18% of nitrous oxide emissions. Increased agriculture, deforestation, landfills…

…of the earth’s surface but harbor as much as 50 percent of the world’s plant and animal species. Also about 57 percent of all rain forests remaining are in the tropics in the Western Hemisphere: 30 percent are in Brazil. At the current rate of deforestation…

…, removing carbon dioxide from emissions at the source, eliminating the use of chloro-fluoro-carbons, slowing or mitigating deforestation, and developing agricultural techniques that release less carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. These changes would have far…

…. The conventional approaches used by governments, development organizations and aid agencies are based on the assumption that deforestation is caused by poverty and overpopulation. Poor people who have little option but to clear the forests in order to survive…

…to deforestation that resulted as civilizations grew and expanded northward in search of land and resources. Ever since agriculture began around 11,000 years ago, humans have been clearing land for farms. Forest fires, industrial pollution, and paper use have…

…. Deforestation is another issue that is often discussed as a problem contributing to global warming that can easily be stopped. Deforestation has many negative effects such as ecological imbalance, bio-diversity loss, and climate change. Most areas in which…