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  2. Deforestation - Wikipedia

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    Trees are cut down for use as building material, timber or sold as fuel (sometimes in the form of charcoal or timber), while cleared land is used as pasture for livestock and agricultural crops. The vast majority of agricultural activity resulting in deforestation is subsidized by government tax revenue . [ 89 ]

  3. Deforestation and climate change - Wikipedia

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    Trees in tropical climates have, on average, larger, brighter, and more abundant leaves than non-tropical climates. A study of the girth of 70,000 trees across Africa has shown that tropical forests fix more carbon dioxide pollution than previously realized.

  4. Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest - Wikipedia

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    Tree felling: The selected trees are cut down using chainsaws, harvesters, or other mechanized equipment. The felled trees are then prepared for further processing. Timber extraction: Once the trees are felled, loggers extract the timber from the forest by removing branches and cutting the tree trunks into logs of appropriate sizes for transport.

  5. Opinion: Why is Forest Service cutting more trees releasing ...

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    The trees that are no longer there can’t continue to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen, and the forests that grow back won’t capture enough carbon to break even for decades or centuries, if ...

  6. Afforestation - Wikipedia

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    Regarding the effects of afforestation on long-term carbon stocks and carbon sequestration these decrease when trees are less than 5 years old and increase quickly thereafter. [86] This means trees from monoculture planting that do not survive never reach full potential for carbon sequestration to offset China's carbon output.

  7. Deforestation in Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... reduced pollution, clean water and more. ... caused by cutting and burning trees. Besides that, the planting of trees helps ...

  8. Slash-and-burn - Wikipedia

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    Slash-and-burn agriculture is a farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to create a field called a swidden. The method begins by cutting down the trees and woody plants in an area. The downed vegetation, or "slash", is then left to dry, usually right before the rainiest part of the year.

  9. Deforestation in British Columbia - Wikipedia

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    Carbon emissions from deforestation is an important issue to look at with the increasing problem of global warming.Currently, about 4% of B.C.′s total green house gas (GHG) yearly emissions are from deforestation, which is quite a low percentage compared to B.C.'s total GHG emissions, and works out to be about 6,200 hectares of forest land is converted to non-forest use per year. [4]