Deforestation and Climate Change
Channel: Voice of America
Date: 2011-11-10

Carbon dioxide - large amounts of it - is believed to be the main contributor to climate change.  Carbon dioxide is a naturally occurring element in the atmosphere, but it is also a byproduct of fossil-fuel combustion.  VOA's Rebecca Ward reports that while nature provides the means to deal with carbon, environmentalists fear the best defense against greenhouse gas emissions is rapidly being destroyed.