what is deforestation?
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Deforestation is the loss or continual degradation of forest habitat due to either natural or human related causes. Agriculture, urban sprawl, unsustainable forestry practices, mining, and petroleum exploration all contribute to human caused deforestation. Natural deforestation can be linked to tsunamis, forest fires, volcanic eruptions, glaciation and desertification. The effects of human related deforestation can be mitigated through environmentally sustainable practices that reduce permanent destruction of forests or even act to preserve and rehabilitate disrupted forestland.
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In many ways for instance reducing cutting trees in the tropical forest area or replanting after cutting trees,differentiating agricultural zone from industrial zone, making zone of grazing lands.Above all reducing the industrial wastage links to the sea and polluting the air.
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Agriculture generally requires large area of land and is land intensive. Land is ever becoming a scarce resource as world population is keeping exploding as a result of which the existing household per capita land is decreasing and hence people are cutting down forests in search of additional land for agriculture. On the other hand household lands are being monopolized by big commercial farms driving household farmers into towns. Still in some places household farmers are changing int producing high value products that do not need big land area.This has brought about a change in agriculture pattern in many areas of the world.
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Universal.\nPlants are producer organisms converting sunlight and minerals into food that we can eat. They absorb carbon out of the atmosphere, produce oxygen and as importantly pump water from the ground into the air, making more water available as rain and preventing salt from building up in the soil surface (salination). Plants prevent soil erosion through slowing the impact of rain and wind. They provide wood for fuel, building and paper, they provide homes and food for myriads of other animals, and without plants we would be in a sorry state of affairs. Plants beautify the landscape and make us feel better about our surroundings. Plants are good things,
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Sustainable development is kind of a generic term related to replacing the natural resources you consume when you develop land.  It's sustainable because theoretically you could continue building without any net negative effects from your development.\n\nNo development is truly sustainable.  You can't blanket 100% of the land on the earth with buildings without a negative effect on the planet, but for instance, if you can replant the same number of trees that you use to build, or restore a developed plot of land to natural flora and fauna, that would be considered sustainable.
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There's entirely too much information available on this subject.  I suggest you start with a simple internet search with using words or phrases like 'tropical deforestation issues' or 'impact of tropical deforestation'.  There's a ton of info to find.  Also try your local library.  I'm sure there are tons of magazine and journal articles written on the subject.
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Good luck. Brazil and other nations around the rain forests are economically desperate. How can you tell a man who is just trying to feed his family to do it elsewhere or argue logic about econmic damage? \n\nInstead, why not cultivate the rain forest elsewhere? \n\nInstead of prohibiting logging in the rain forrest and other sensitive areas plant a tree in YOUR area. Plant lots of them and not just any tree. Do a little research as to which ones do not spew pollution. Yes certain kinds of trees are worse for our air than cars. \n\nRestrictive anything is not the solution for any problem. So called environmentalists have to get out of the banning mind set if they wish to do the environment any good. Positive solutions work. Negitive solutions only hurt people and rarely help your cause.
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First off forests don't produce oxygen, that is one of those science factoids that everybody knows and thatis completely without basis. See the link below.\n\nForestry is important because it produce wood and wood pulp for parer. It also provides an ecnomic incentive for maintaining area sof managed wilderness and plantation forest that provide essential environmental services such as wildlife habitat and water regulation.
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deforestation removes the protective layers of the earth ,and the soil dries out by the sun ,if the land has been used for agriculture ,the now dry and dusty soil impregnated with agro chemicals (.including pesticides) ,are easily washed into the rivers by the rains.\nhere the mud effects aquatic life because the waters PH levels are  raised in acidity.\nwhich can affect sexuality as well as kill marine life.\nso most of the Damage is in the rivers and coastal areas and lagoons.\nby the time it all reaches the seas things are too diluted to have a marked difference.\n\nbut there are always limits to tolerance .\nif things go on long anough and in increasing quantities ,the life in the sea will also be affected .it already has with the red killer algae(Red tide),a result of chemical contamination
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A canopy could also mean more trees. The more trees there are, the more they hold roots and soil in place, thus preventing erosion.
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Taiga (also referred to as boreal forest or coniferous forest) is a biome characterized by evergreen cone-bearing trees with needle-like leaves. Mostly these are in the pine Family. Most of Canada and Russia is covered by this beautiful though not extremely productive type of ecosystem.
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through trees and the process of photosyntesis..\n\nglobal warming occurs because of the excess of certain gases, CO2 and others, in the atmosphere. photosyntesis can help recycle those gases by turning them into oxygen. By cutting down trees there's less ways to get rid of those gases and so they keep accumulating in the atmosphere causing an increase in global warming.\n\nhope that helps
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seems pretty straightforward, its an observation that this is a small world, and things interact, and while its good to save the forests here its also necessary to save the rainforests, the oceans, and the atmosphere everywhere.
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Tropical Rain Forest riddled with reminders of how many trees are being cut down every minute.\n\nToo political?\n\nHooters.
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"Cutting down trees" sounds better because the other one sounds incomplete... the trees are cutting down what?
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The pulp of this fast growing trees is use for making high quality paper.The demand for paper is growing and demand is falling short.Henceforth you have a planting and deforesting programme to sustain the paper industry
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(1) The term desertification is  applied to land degradation in dry lands.\n\n(2) It is  resulting mainly from adverse human impact. “Land” in these terms includes soil and local water resources, the land surface and vegetation or crops, while degradation implies a reduction of resource potential.\n\n(3) There are several causes of desertification.\na) Fuelwood crisis\nb) Overcultivation \nc) Poor management of irrigation schemes\nd) Mechanical techniques \ne) Erosion made from Poor land use pattern\nf) Negative results of deforestation