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Deforestation in the United States was affected by many factors. One such factor was the effect, whether positive or negative, that the logging industry has on forests in the country. Logging in the United States is a hotly debated topic as groups who either support or oppose logging argue over its benefits and negative effects.
The 11th Hour is a 2007 documentary film on the state of the natural environment created, produced, co-written and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.It was directed by Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners and financed by Adam Lewis and Pierre André Senizergues, and distributed by Warner Independent Pictures.
In the United States, deforestation was an ongoing process until recently. Between 2010 and 2020, the US forests increased 0.03% annually, according to FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). [a]
He will have created a State! [3] Smith suggested cutting through the rim of the Everglades (known today as the Atlantic Coastal Ridge), connecting the heads of rivers to the coastline so that 4 feet (1.2 m) of water would be drained from the area. The result, Smith hoped, would yield farmland suitable for corn, sugar, rice, cotton, and tobacco.
(SOUNDBITE) (English) FULL GROWN CO-FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR, ALICE MUNRO, SAYING: "There's so much potential, we just think there's a lot more that we could do really. But a dining set would be nice.
WWF Australia expressed concerns on October 26 that recent rainfall in north Queensland caused sediment run-off and fertiliser pollution that has flowed into the vulnerable Great Barrier Reef ...
The following year, the state of Florida created the agency which eventually became the South Florida Water Management District, responsible for water quality, flood control, water supply and environmental restoration in 16 counties, from Orlando to the Florida Keys. [18] To control flooding, the Kissimmee River was straightened from 1962 to ...
But the creation of the plantations came at a steep price. To make way for those industrial fields of palm trees, some 30,000 acres of rainforest were cut down, a swath of destruction that one ...