TROPICAL DEFORESTATION Who will watch the Amazon?Stokstad, ErikScience
These forest-rainfall cascades buffer the effects of drought and reveal a mechanism by which deforestation can compromise the resilience of the Amazon forest system in the face of future climatic extremes. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution Access options Access ...
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exhibit activities that are not only harmful to human health due to the use of mercury (Hg) in the gold amalgamation process but also leave behind a disastrous trail of ecosystem service depletion, especially in the Amazon, where, in addition to deforestation and forest degradation,garimponotably ...
resulting in a net AGB loss of 0.67 Pg C. Forest degradation (73%) contributed three times more to the gross AGB loss than deforestation (27%), given that the areal extent of degradation exceeds that of deforestation. This indicates that forest degradation has become the largest process...
However, in a two and half million square rainforest, that’s easier said than done. Previously activists manually (人工地) examined over satellite images to spot these roads. They also recorded the result of deforestation. But now, technology may help activists become more proactive (主动出击...
Common tree species in the Amazon will survive even grim scenarios of deforestation and road-building, but rare trees could suffer extinction rates of up to 50 percent, predict Smithsonian scientists and colleagues in the Aug. 12 issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science...
Such biodiversity forms an extremely complex and large-scale ecosystem whose evolution naturally produced countless biological solutions. Currently, the vast majority of those species are still far from being sufficiently studied to ensure the exploitation of such enormous biotechnological potential. ...
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon surged to a 12-year high in the year between August 2019 and July 2020, according to the country’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE).
Bolsonaro, who has previously said he is not “Captain Chainsaw” in reference to Amazon deforestation, has dismissed accusations of responsibility for the fires. On Wednesday, he speculated that the Amazon fires could have been caused by nonprofit organizations who are suffering from lack of fundin...