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  2. Deforestation - Wikipedia

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    Deforestation is defined as the conversion of forest to other land uses (regardless of whether it is human-induced). [14] Deforestation and forest area net change are not the same: the latter is the sum of all forest losses (deforestation) and all forest gains (forest expansion) in a given period. Net change, therefore, can be positive or ...

  3. Deforestation and climate change - Wikipedia

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    Land use change, especially in the form of deforestation, is the second largest source of carbon dioxide emissions from human activities, after the burning of fossil fuels. [4] [5] Greenhouse gases are emitted from deforestation during the burning of forest biomass and decomposition of remaining plant material and soil carbon.

  4. Habitat destruction - Wikipedia

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    Tropical deforestation: In most cases of tropical deforestation, three to four underlying causes are driving two to three proximate causes. [19] This means that a universal policy for controlling tropical deforestation would not be able to address the unique combination of proximate and underlying causes of deforestation in each country. [19]

  5. Forest degradation - Wikipedia

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    Earth Eclipse, [8] a platform of environment research articles, adds the following causes: Acid rain; Pests and diseases; Air pollution. Degradation for this cause is specifically called [citation needed] Waldsterben (German word) or forest death. Forest fragmentation: a large forest is broken up in smaller woods, which destroys the habitat of ...

  6. Land use, land-use change, and forestry - Wikipedia

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    Deforestation and climate change – Interactions between deforestation and climate change; Land change science – Interdisciplinary study of changes in climate, land use, and land cover; Land change modeling – Geographic and ecological field of study; Land use – Classification of land resources based on what can be built and on its use

  7. Climate change - Wikipedia

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    Deforestation is the main land use change contributor to global warming, [126] as the destroyed trees release CO 2, and are not replaced by new trees, removing that carbon sink. [127] Between 2001 and 2018, 27% of deforestation was from permanent clearing to enable agricultural expansion for crops and livestock.

  8. Land use - Wikipedia

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    Deforestation is an example of large-scale land use change. The deforestation of temperate regions since 1750 has had a major effect on land cover. [19] The reshaping of landscapes to serve human needs, such as the deforestation for farmland, can have long-term effects on earth systems and exacerbate the causes of climate change. [20]

  9. Environmental degradation - Wikipedia

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    When natural habitats are destroyed or natural resources are depleted, the environment is degraded; direct environmental degradation, such as deforestation, which is readily visible; this can be caused by more indirect process, such as the build up of plastic pollution over time or the buildup of greenhouse gases that causes tipping points in ...