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10 reasons to be optimistic for forests on World Environment Day
2016-06-05 04:11:04| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Its easy to be pessimistic about the state of the worlds forests. Rates of forest loss remain persistently high, especially in the tropics and boreal regions. Drought, fragmentation, degradation via logging, and climate change are conspiring to make forests more vulnerable to fire: vast areas of forest went up in smoke across Canada, Russia, the United States, Indonesia, Brazil, and the Congo Basin in the past two years alone. Expanding human population and rising meat consumption are fueling a...
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