The loss captured in this statistic includes all loss, including in secondary vegetation and plantations. 2. Of countries with at least 1 million hectares of tropical primary forest in 2001. The Forest Pulse draws on the most recent data and analysis to reveal the latest trends in global forest loss and deforestation.
Deforestation and Forest Loss
Global deforestation peaked in the 1980s. Can we bring it to an end? Since the end of the last ice age — 10,000 years ago — the world has lost one-third of its forests. 2 Two billion hectares of forest — an area twice the size of the United States — has been cleared to grow crops, raise livestock, and for use as fuelwood. Previously, we looked at this change in global forests over the ...
The Unseen Effects of Deforestation: Biophysical Effects on Climate
Biophysical cooling due to deforestation from 30°N to 40°N offsets about 40% of the warming associated with carbon loss from deforestation; from 40°N to 50°N biophysical effects offset 85% of CO 2 effects ( Figure 5B ). Above 50°N, biophysical global cooling is 3-6 times as great as CO 2 induced global warming.
Drivers of tropical deforestation: a global review of methodological
Other systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses have synthesized the substantial number of research findings globally regarding underlying and proximate drivers of deforestation (Hängli et al. 2023; Garrett et al. 2021; Busch Ferretti-Gallon 2017; Atmadja Verchot 2012), yet our study provides a unique contribution to this growing body of ...
Deforestation-induced climate change reduces carbon storage in ...
Warming and drying from deforestation could amplify carbon storage losses in tropical remaining forests. Here the authors report this value to be extra 5.1% in the Amazon and 3.8% in Congo as ...
What Drives and Stops Deforestation, Reforestation, and Forest
August 16, 2023. This article updates our previous comprehensive meta-analysis of what drives and stops deforestation (Busch and Ferretti-Gallon 2017). By including six additional years of research, this article more than doubles the evidence base to 320 spatially explicit econometric studies published in peer-reviewed academic journals from ...
How to best halt and reverse deforestation? Largest study of its kind
The findings are timely given the increased focus on the need to reduce deforestation and stabilize global temperatures. The new peer-reviewed study - alongside existing Conservation International research that finds the world must reach zero emissions from the land sector by 2030 - can help guide conservation strategies and investments ...
Drivers of Deforestation
Every year, the world loses around 5 million hectares of forest. 95% of this occurs in the tropics. At least three-quarters of this is driven by agriculture - clearing forests to grow crops, raise livestock, and produce products such as paper.1. If we want to tackle deforestation, we need to understand two key questions: where we're losing ...
Combating deforestation: From satellite to intervention
Reports often feature high-resolution imagery both before and after recent deforestation events. All reports are reviewed by preselected expert committees before publication. Particularly sensitive findings, such as illegal activity that may be subject to an intervention, are passed directly to relevant government entities before being made public.
How to tackle the global deforestation crisis
Deforestation is a major contributor to climate change, producing between 6 and 17 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to a 2009 study. Meanwhile, because trees also absorb carbon dioxide, removing it from the atmosphere, they help keep the Earth cooler. And climate change aside, forests protect biodiversity.
The effect of deforestation and climate change on all-cause mortality
Further research should examine how deforestation is currently affecting the health and wellbeing of local communities. ... Our findings point to an urgent need for action for the approximately 800 million people living in the world's tropical forest nations—a population that is expected to substantially increase by 2050. Importantly, these ...
The surprising driver of Amazon deforestation
The surprising driver of Amazon deforestation. ... The Imagine Institute is a leading European research centre dedicated to genetic diseases, with the primary objective to better understand and ...
Deforestation, forestation, and water supply
The effects of both deforestation and forestation (reforestation and afforestation) on water supply have generated serious concerns and debates ( 2, 3 ), particularly after recent catastrophic fires in Australia and the western United States. However, hydrological consequences of forest changes are never simple, and future research and ...
Global Forest Resource Assessment 2020
About the report. This digital report contains the main findings of the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020 (FRA 2020). FRA 2020 examines the status of, and trends in, more than 60 forest-related variables in 236 countries and territories in the period 1990-2020. The information provided by FRA presents a comprehensive view of the world ...
Reduced deforestation and degradation in Indigenous Lands pan ...
Our findings that deforestation and forest degradation are reduced on Indigenous Lands pan-tropically relative to non-protected areas suggest that Indigenous communities and their customary ...
Understanding the socio-economic causes of deforestation: a global
The problem of (a)deforestation is an example of a global externality (Lawrence et al., 2022). Current research claims that it is needed to identify the specific economic factors that drive deforestation and develop effective policies and tools to mitigate its impacts at the global and national level (Bhatia and Cumming, 2020; Ahmed et al., 2023).
Deforestation News, Research and Analysis
The world's business and finance sectors can do much more to reverse deforestation - here's the data to prove it. Mary Gagen, Swansea University. A recently published report sheds light on ...
Study reveals human degradation of tropical forests is greater than
Tropical forests are essential to sustain high biodiversity and mitigate climate change. They suffer from deforestation, the cutting and converting of forests for agriculture, mining, or ...
What drives and halts tropical deforestation? Analyzing 24 years of data
In a new meta-analysis, researchers synthesized the findings of 320 studies about what is associated with more or less deforestation in the tropics. According to the study, published in the ...
Sizing Up How Agriculture Connects to Deforestation
Shifting agriculture (yellow) typically involves the clearing of small plots within forests in Africa, Central America, and parts of South America. The clearing is done by subsistence farmers, often families, who raise a mixture of vegetables, fruits, grains, and small livestock herds for a few years and then let fields go fallow and move on as ...
Reforestation: Challenges and Themes in Reforestation Research
Despite a continued focus within the land cover change arena on deforestation, the realization that reforestation, regrowth and forest regeneration are occurring globally has started to occur. ... In this book, we have integrated research findings from scientists working in a range of contexts and continents and utilizing a variety of ...
deforestation
New research findings from Princeton University. deforestation After extreme drought, forests take years to rebuild CO2 storage capacity (Science) Posted on July 30, 2015 July 31, 2015 by Catherine Zandonella. ... a visiting associate research scholar in the Princeton Environmental Institute.
Deforestation
Deforestation is the purposeful clearing of forested land. Throughout history and into modern times, forests have been razed to make space for agriculture and animal grazing, and to obtain wood for fuel, manufacturing, and construction.. Deforestation has greatly altered landscapes around the world. About 2,000 years ago, 80 percent of Western Europe was forested; today the figure is 34 percent.
2023: A watershed year for action on deforestation
They discuss the current realities of deforestation alongside the positive actions that can be taken to make 2023 a watershed year for deforestation. Listen to the podcast. Watch the full webinar recording. For nine years, Global Canopy's Forest 500 has tracked the policies and performance of the 350 most influential companies and 150 ...
'Miracle' in miniature as rare new plant defies deforestation in Ecuador
The tiny plant, only 5 cm (2 in) tall, was found growing on a boulder in an area that has lost 70-97% of its original forest cover due to agricultural expansion and past government policies ...
Reconciling policy instruments with drivers of deforestation ...
Despite previous studies examining the cross-scale effects of tropical deforestation 34,35, research has largely focused on single countries 36,37,38,39,40. Deriving meaningful empirical findings ...
'Not the end of the world', data scientist's findings might surprise
Paris: Humanity has made great strides in recent decades: air is cleaner; poverty, deforestation and childhood mortality have fallen; gasoline cars -- and maybe coal -- are on the way out.
'They're everywhere': Common foods linked to elevated levels of PFAS in
And while the data showed a peak in deforestation in 2013, the problem has begun growing again in recent years. By 2023, mining was linked to an annual loss of nearly 10,000 hectares of primary ...
Congress must invest in natural gas for AI growth to thrive
Opinion: AI searches require 10 times the energy of Google searches. Without more natural gas permits, U.S. power grid cannot support AI.
Global Bank Predicts Mass Gas Station Closures From EV's Popularity
According to Sam Evans, known as the Electric Viking, a global bank has issued a stark warning about the future of gas stations. Evans discusses the findings from a recent report which indicates ...
COMMENTS
The loss captured in this statistic includes all loss, including in secondary vegetation and plantations. 2. Of countries with at least 1 million hectares of tropical primary forest in 2001. The Forest Pulse draws on the most recent data and analysis to reveal the latest trends in global forest loss and deforestation.
Global deforestation peaked in the 1980s. Can we bring it to an end? Since the end of the last ice age — 10,000 years ago — the world has lost one-third of its forests. 2 Two billion hectares of forest — an area twice the size of the United States — has been cleared to grow crops, raise livestock, and for use as fuelwood. Previously, we looked at this change in global forests over the ...
Biophysical cooling due to deforestation from 30°N to 40°N offsets about 40% of the warming associated with carbon loss from deforestation; from 40°N to 50°N biophysical effects offset 85% of CO 2 effects ( Figure 5B ). Above 50°N, biophysical global cooling is 3-6 times as great as CO 2 induced global warming.
Other systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses have synthesized the substantial number of research findings globally regarding underlying and proximate drivers of deforestation (Hängli et al. 2023; Garrett et al. 2021; Busch Ferretti-Gallon 2017; Atmadja Verchot 2012), yet our study provides a unique contribution to this growing body of ...
Warming and drying from deforestation could amplify carbon storage losses in tropical remaining forests. Here the authors report this value to be extra 5.1% in the Amazon and 3.8% in Congo as ...
August 16, 2023. This article updates our previous comprehensive meta-analysis of what drives and stops deforestation (Busch and Ferretti-Gallon 2017). By including six additional years of research, this article more than doubles the evidence base to 320 spatially explicit econometric studies published in peer-reviewed academic journals from ...
The findings are timely given the increased focus on the need to reduce deforestation and stabilize global temperatures. The new peer-reviewed study - alongside existing Conservation International research that finds the world must reach zero emissions from the land sector by 2030 - can help guide conservation strategies and investments ...
Every year, the world loses around 5 million hectares of forest. 95% of this occurs in the tropics. At least three-quarters of this is driven by agriculture - clearing forests to grow crops, raise livestock, and produce products such as paper.1. If we want to tackle deforestation, we need to understand two key questions: where we're losing ...
Reports often feature high-resolution imagery both before and after recent deforestation events. All reports are reviewed by preselected expert committees before publication. Particularly sensitive findings, such as illegal activity that may be subject to an intervention, are passed directly to relevant government entities before being made public.
Deforestation is a major contributor to climate change, producing between 6 and 17 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to a 2009 study. Meanwhile, because trees also absorb carbon dioxide, removing it from the atmosphere, they help keep the Earth cooler. And climate change aside, forests protect biodiversity.
Further research should examine how deforestation is currently affecting the health and wellbeing of local communities. ... Our findings point to an urgent need for action for the approximately 800 million people living in the world's tropical forest nations—a population that is expected to substantially increase by 2050. Importantly, these ...
The surprising driver of Amazon deforestation. ... The Imagine Institute is a leading European research centre dedicated to genetic diseases, with the primary objective to better understand and ...
The effects of both deforestation and forestation (reforestation and afforestation) on water supply have generated serious concerns and debates ( 2, 3 ), particularly after recent catastrophic fires in Australia and the western United States. However, hydrological consequences of forest changes are never simple, and future research and ...
About the report. This digital report contains the main findings of the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020 (FRA 2020). FRA 2020 examines the status of, and trends in, more than 60 forest-related variables in 236 countries and territories in the period 1990-2020. The information provided by FRA presents a comprehensive view of the world ...
Our findings that deforestation and forest degradation are reduced on Indigenous Lands pan-tropically relative to non-protected areas suggest that Indigenous communities and their customary ...
The problem of (a)deforestation is an example of a global externality (Lawrence et al., 2022). Current research claims that it is needed to identify the specific economic factors that drive deforestation and develop effective policies and tools to mitigate its impacts at the global and national level (Bhatia and Cumming, 2020; Ahmed et al., 2023).
The world's business and finance sectors can do much more to reverse deforestation - here's the data to prove it. Mary Gagen, Swansea University. A recently published report sheds light on ...
Tropical forests are essential to sustain high biodiversity and mitigate climate change. They suffer from deforestation, the cutting and converting of forests for agriculture, mining, or ...
In a new meta-analysis, researchers synthesized the findings of 320 studies about what is associated with more or less deforestation in the tropics. According to the study, published in the ...
Shifting agriculture (yellow) typically involves the clearing of small plots within forests in Africa, Central America, and parts of South America. The clearing is done by subsistence farmers, often families, who raise a mixture of vegetables, fruits, grains, and small livestock herds for a few years and then let fields go fallow and move on as ...
Despite a continued focus within the land cover change arena on deforestation, the realization that reforestation, regrowth and forest regeneration are occurring globally has started to occur. ... In this book, we have integrated research findings from scientists working in a range of contexts and continents and utilizing a variety of ...
New research findings from Princeton University. deforestation After extreme drought, forests take years to rebuild CO2 storage capacity (Science) Posted on July 30, 2015 July 31, 2015 by Catherine Zandonella. ... a visiting associate research scholar in the Princeton Environmental Institute.
Deforestation is the purposeful clearing of forested land. Throughout history and into modern times, forests have been razed to make space for agriculture and animal grazing, and to obtain wood for fuel, manufacturing, and construction.. Deforestation has greatly altered landscapes around the world. About 2,000 years ago, 80 percent of Western Europe was forested; today the figure is 34 percent.
They discuss the current realities of deforestation alongside the positive actions that can be taken to make 2023 a watershed year for deforestation. Listen to the podcast. Watch the full webinar recording. For nine years, Global Canopy's Forest 500 has tracked the policies and performance of the 350 most influential companies and 150 ...
The tiny plant, only 5 cm (2 in) tall, was found growing on a boulder in an area that has lost 70-97% of its original forest cover due to agricultural expansion and past government policies ...
Despite previous studies examining the cross-scale effects of tropical deforestation 34,35, research has largely focused on single countries 36,37,38,39,40. Deriving meaningful empirical findings ...
Paris: Humanity has made great strides in recent decades: air is cleaner; poverty, deforestation and childhood mortality have fallen; gasoline cars -- and maybe coal -- are on the way out.
And while the data showed a peak in deforestation in 2013, the problem has begun growing again in recent years. By 2023, mining was linked to an annual loss of nearly 10,000 hectares of primary ...
Opinion: AI searches require 10 times the energy of Google searches. Without more natural gas permits, U.S. power grid cannot support AI.
According to Sam Evans, known as the Electric Viking, a global bank has issued a stark warning about the future of gas stations. Evans discusses the findings from a recent report which indicates ...