The Effects Of Deforestation

Deforestation or cutting down trees has become a favorite activity of man to extract assorted needs- be it medicines or precious paper to waste. Deforestation is mainly a method in which it is the permanent elimination of forests in order to make the land available for other purposes. Throughout the twentieth century the world’s views on the deforestation of forests have changed changed drastically. An analysis, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), reveals that an estimated 18 million acres (7.3 million hectares) of forests are lost each year. Deforestation is a problem in which it affects many things such as the world 's ecosystem and the health of the people. Deforestation must be stopped or at least

According to Daley,when the greenhouse gases reach a high level, the gases can force a climate change. While oxygen is the second most abundant gas in our atmosphere, it can not and does not absorb thermal infrared radiation, as greenhouse gases do which is why carbon dioxide is the most prevalent greenhouse gas. In 2012,carbon dioxide is accounted at eighty two percent for all of the United States greenhouse gases, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Trees can help, though because, according to Greenpeace, 300 billion tons of carbon, forty times the annual greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels, is stored in trees and where they will convert carbon dioxide into oxygen. Carbon is not the only greenhouse gas that is affected by deforestation. Water vapor is also considered a greenhouse gas. "The impact of deforestation on the exchange of water vapor and carbon dioxide between the atmosphere and the terrestrial land surface is the biggest concern with regard to the climate system," Daley said. Changes in the atmospheric concentration will have an effect on climate. Deforestation is considered the second largest anthropogenic source of origin of carbon dioxide to the Earth’s

A second way to prevent deforestation is to recycle paper instead of cutting down more trees to create new paper, where paper industries can rely on recycling companies to clean used up paper to create “new” paper instead. In the last three decades, the one type of forest that is being cut down the most is the tropical forest and many scientists believe that tropical deforestation has the most impact on the climate. The reduction of the Amazon forest is also affecting the climate to the point where there is an increase in the surface temperature, foliage temperature, and the foliage air temperature when the evergreen broadleaf tree, native to the Amazon forest, is replaced by short