Sentence examples for rainforest loss from inspiring English sources

Clearing land for cattle is responsible for 80percentt of rainforest loss in the Brazilian Amazon.

The Stern review suggested $15bn a year is the kind of sum needed to decisively turn the trend of tropical rainforest loss, which accounts for up to 96% of emissions from deforestation.

Another thing that gave me pause was that I went back and looked at the history of past predictions of ecological apocalypse from my youth - population explosion, oil exhaustion, elephant extinction, rainforest loss, acid rain, the ozone layer, desertification, nuclear winter, the running out of resources, pandemics, falling sperm counts, cancerous pesticide pollution and so forth.

The growing demand for biofuel and so-called green energy had promoted the clearing of Southeast Asian rainforests to make way for palm plantations, and the planting of soybeans had become a principal cause of rainforest loss in the Brazilian Amazon.

However, because the magnitude of temporal change in woody vegetation within the ecotone is much smaller relative to that caused by deforestation in rainforest, we focus on how rainforest loss influences the slope of the rainforest-savanna gradient.

Additionally, the spatial patterns of coral reef degradation are very different from rainforest loss in that nearly all reefs have been affected; there are virtually no remaining pristine reefs and very few with coral cover close to the historical average (Fig. 2C).

The media was crammed with stories about climate change, rainforest destruction, habitat loss and waste.

The loss of rainforest in the Amazon has been a familiar cause for activism for more than 30 years, but the partial success of efforts to protect it is moving the spotlight to a new landscape: Brazil's cerrado.

In West Africa, deforestation and gradient flattening have been associated with the loss of rainforest species and incursions by savanna-adapted species into previously forested regions [49], [50], and such incursions arising from deforestation have also recently been documented in Cameroon [51], [52].

Lal (1981) highlighted the multiple role of leaf litter at the soil surface on mediating soil loss from rainforest ecosystems, dissipating the energy of raindrop or throughfall impact, and increasing infiltration capacity.

But according to Friends of the Earth and other critics of the ad, palm oil plantations are linked to rainforest species extinction, habitat loss, pollution from burning to clear the land, destruction of flood buffer zones along rivers, and other adverse effects.