Deforestation and Areas of Peat
- Created by: Uswa
- Created on: 23-03-13 17:11
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- Deforestation
- Large-scale deforestation in tropical areas, for TIMBER and to provide land for AGRICULTURE has
- Increased release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere
- Due to the burning, machinery and microbe activity
- Reduced rate at which carbon dioxide is removed from atmosphere and 'locked up' for many years as wood
- Increased release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere
- Deforestation leads to reduction in biodiversity
- As animal habitats are also destroyed due to it
- Destruction of Peat Bogs
- [And other areas of peat]
- Releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere
- [And other areas of peat]
- Deforestation has occurred so that:
- Crops can be grown from which biofuels (based on ethanol) can be produced
- There can be an increase in cattle and rice fields to provide more food
- These produce methane
- Methane levels in the atmosphere are increasing.
- These produce methane
- Large-scale deforestation in tropical areas, for TIMBER and to provide land for AGRICULTURE has
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