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Moreover, it suggests that standing tropical forests help cool the average global temperature by more than 1 °C or 1.8 °F. [24] [25] Deforestation of tropical forests may risk triggering tipping points in the climate system and of forest ecosystem collapse which would also have effects on climate change. [26] [27] [28] [29]
24 March: a study published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change review the biophysical mechanisms by which forests influence climate, showing that beyond 50°N large scale deforestation leads to a net global cooling, that tropical deforestation leads to substantial warming from non-CO 2-impacts, and that standing tropical forests help ...
Moreover, the degradation of rainforests contributes to climate change by releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere, creating a feedback loop that further accelerates global warming. [1] [2] [3] A study highlighted in a 2022 Nature article underscores the broader climate benefits of tropical forests beyond carbon storage. Tropical forests ...
Boreal forests, also known as taiga, are warming at a faster rate than the global average. [14] leading to drier conditions in the Taiga, which leads to a whole host of subsequent issues. [15] Climate change has a direct impact on the productivity of the boreal forest, as well as health and regeneration. [15]
A study on forest transition theory reported that over 60 years (1960–2019), "the global forest area has declined by 81.7 million ha", and concluded higher income nations need to reduce imports of tropical forest-related products and help with theoretically forest-related socioeconomic development and international policies. [34] [35]
Following a move towards more integrated landscape approaches in both the forestry and agriculture sides of the research for development sphere, the Global Landscapes Forum was born in 2013 out of a merger of Forest Day and Agriculture and Rural Development Day (ARDD), which had been annual side events at the United Nations Climate Change ...
11 March: a review article published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change concluded that warming from non-CO 2 agents (especially CH 4 and N 2 O) in the Amazon basin largely offsets—and most likely exceeds—the climate change mitigating effect of the region's CO 2 uptake. [45]
In 2009, two-thirds of the world's forests were located in just 10 countries: Russia, Brazil, Canada, the United States, China, Australia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia, India, and Peru. [2] Global annual deforestation is estimated to total 13.7 million hectares a year, similar to the area of Greece. Half of the area ...