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    Deforestation Forests are vital for life‚ home to millions of species‚ they protect soil from erosion‚ produce oxygen‚ store carbon dioxide‚ and help control climate. Forests are also vital for us to live as they provide us with food‚ shelter and medicines as well as many other useful things. They also purify the air we breathe and water that we need to survive. Deforestation by humans is causing all of these necessary functions to be lessened‚ and hence damaging the atmosphere even further. Forests

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    survive. Trees moderate global temperatures and rainfall‚ especially when in forests. They cool the earth by providing shade‚ and recycle water by helping to move rainfall along. And when trees are clustered together in forests‚ they help these natural causes to work even faster‚ because there are such a great amount of trees. The harvesting of timber to produce wood and paper products is detrimental to our forests. One reason is because we are cutting down trees for these products at a rate that new

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    Ask a Question about Deforestation and its causes and effects In today’s world millions of people are drained in the culture of urbanization and pushed into cities‚ as a result towns are turning into cities‚ big cities turn into bigger cities and metro-cities are turning into mega-metro cities‚ to the extent that they have to be considered into a state and further subdivide it. Even the profusely increasing population proves to be a major cause for this. But due to all of these things one thing

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    Deforestation of the Amazon: Causes‚ Effects and Possible Solutions NAME Geography 101‚ Section 040 PROFESSOR 6 December 2012 Abstract This paper explores the causes‚ effects and possible solutions of the deforestation of the Amazon Forest. It is important to understand why more than 580‚000 square kilometers of Amazon forest has been destroyed in Brazil since 1980 (Rhett Butler 2012). The main topics of this paper‚ in order to fully explore the issue at hand‚ will include:

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    Introduction Walt Disney has made many lives of people across the globe acquire a very imaginative imaginary and has made many hours of entertainment. Over his many years of cartooning and entertaining movies Walt Disney has earned him self 48 Academy Awards. Childhood Adolescence On December 5th 1901 Walt Disney was born into a family of seven

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    October 2014 Detriment of Deforestation Image a planet without trees. This is a scary planet where the temperature is very hot and the air is very difficult to breathe. This planet will have nothing to protect people from the sun‚ nothing to slowdown the forces of the wind‚ and nothing to anchor topsoil from eroding in the rain. The conditions at this imaginary planet can become our reality on earth if we do not stop deforestation. There are many negative effects of deforestation. However‚ for the scope

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    Deforestation Carolyn Hurford 2nd Hour 4/1/13 “Deforestation is clearing Earth ’s forests on a massive scale‚ often resulting in damage to the quality of the land. Forests still cover about 30 percent of the world’s land area‚ but swaths the size of Panama are lost each and every year.” said by National Geographic. People only think of themselves when demolishing a forest‚ but they don ’t really think of themselves and certainly not all the animals that need to survive in forests. If only 30%

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    Deforestation Chlorophyll enriched buds sprouted up from the fallen branches. The massive roots extended great distances from the trunk. The aged monster towered some three hundred feet into sky Many of its kind came before. The first may have originated some 130 million years ago. (7‚ pg.37) It stood when dinosaurs roamed and reptiles flew. Its vastness was nearly enough to cover the globe. These Species could be found from France and England in Europe. In Japan‚ America‚ Canada‚ and central

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    Modern-Day Plague Deforestation is clearing Earth’s forests on a massive scale‚ often resulting in damage to the quality of the land. Forests still cover about 30 percent of the world’s land area‚ but swaths the size of Panama are lost each and every year. The world’s rain forests could completely vanish in a hundred years at the current rate of deforestation. Forests are cut down for many reasons‚ but most of them are related to money or to people’s need to provide for their families.The biggest

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    are announced as a forest reserve to preserve our forest from destroyed. Not only important to flora and fauna but also to people. For some people‚ their lives depends on forest. However‚ deforestation activity by irresponsible people has led to imbalanced ecosystem. First of all‚ the effect of deforestation is pollution especially water pollution. This problem occurred when people often cut down the trees illegally. So‚ there are no roots to hold and prevent the soil from fall down. The soil that

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