Deforestation and climate change | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-17

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00:02:16 1 Causes of deforestation
00:02:27 1.1 Lumber industry
00:03:42 1.2 Urbanization
00:04:38 1.3 Livestock ranching
00:05:52 1.4 Agricultural expansion
00:07:07 2 Effect on climate change
00:07:18 2.1 Decrease in biodiversity
00:07:58 2.2 Decrease in climate services
00:09:37 2.2.1 Implications on soil and water
00:12:05 3 Counteracting climate change
00:12:16 3.1 Reforestation
00:13:07 3.2 Afforestation
00:14:22 3.2.1 China
00:15:40 3.2.2 Japan
00:16:23 3.3 Agroforestry
00:17:17 3.4 Reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation
00:18:35 4 Preventive measures for deforestation
00:20:30 5 Projects and foundations
00:20:41 5.1 Arbor Day Foundation
00:21:26 5.2 Billion Tree Campaign
00:22:43 5.3 The Amazon Fund (Brazil)
00:24:51 6 See also



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Deforestation is one of the main contributors to climate change. It comes in many forms: wildfire, agricultural clearcutting, livestock ranching, and logging for timber, among others. Forests cover 31% of the land area on Earth and annually, 18.7 million acres of forest is lost. Mass deforestation continues to threaten tropical forests, their biodiversity and the ecosystem services they provide. The main area of concern of deforestation is in tropical rainforests, since it is home to the majority of the biodiversity. Organizations such as World Wildlife Fund focus on the preservation of nature and the reduction of the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on Earth.Deforestation is the second largest anthropogenic source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, after fossil fuel combustion. Deforestation and forest degradation contribute to atmospheric greenhouse gas emissions through combustion of forest biomass and decomposition of remaining plant material and soil carbon. It used to account for more than 20% of carbon dioxide emissions, but it’s currently somewhere around the 10% mark. By 2008, deforestation was 12% of total CO2, or 15% if peatlands are included. These proportions are likely to have fallen since given the continued rise of fossil fuel use.Averaged over all land and ocean surfaces, temperatures warmed roughly 1.53 °F (0.85 °C) between 1880 and 2012, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In the Northern Hemisphere, 1983 to 2012 were the warmest 30-year period of the last 1400 years.