Forests
Forests provide homes for many kinds of plants and animals. They also protect water quality, offer opportunities for recreation, and provide people with wood.
Rainforests are a Rich Source of Medicines
Scattered pockets of native peoples around the world have known about the healing properties of rainforest plants for centuries and perhaps longer.
forests - lands on which trees are the principal plant life, usually conducive to wide biodiversity.
Kyoto Forests: Forests that comply with the specifications of the Kyoto Protocol.
LOSS OF FORESTS (Environmental Issue #186)
"TOUCAN PLAY AT THAT GAME,"
SAID THE RAINFOREST RECREATION DIRECTOR
Forest and Rainforest Destruction - Causes, Effects, Costs ...
Forests and other ecosystems that absorb carbon, thereby removing it from the atmosphere and offsetting CO2 emissions.
Forests are often used to reclaim former mine lands so that formerly unproductive areas provide wildlife habitat, clean water, and forest products.
planting trees on abandoned agricultural fields to improve wildlife habitat and provide future income, ...
Equatorial Rain Forests - An area located near the equator worldwide, covering seven percent of the earth's surface, characterized by high precipitation, absent or short dry season, high tree and vegetative growth rates, high humidity, ...
Second Growth Forest A forest that has been regenerated after the original trees in the area had been destroyed by clearcutting or forests fires.
Rain forests play an important role in the global environment. The Earth sustains life because of critical balances and interactions among many factors.
TROPICAL RAIN FOREST Tropical rain forests appear like a girdle around the equator and occupy approximately 8% of the earth's land surface, ...
For instance, surface vegetation - forests and other plant life - captures rainwater and snow melt better than bare ground, providing groundwater recharge; ...
deforestation: destruction of forests from logging, land clearing for agricultural and pastural land, mining, oil exploration, urban development and so forth.
All the natural features such as fields, hills, forests, and water that distinguish one part of the earth's surface from another part.
taiga Flat, marshy, subartic forests, usually of spruce, firs, or pine trees; the area between the tundra and the steppe in Russia and between the tundra and deciduous forest or grassland of North America.
Forestry Stewardship Council: The Forestry Stewardship Council is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests.
The study of trees and forests in and around towns and cities.
URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARIES
Planning tool that establishes a dividing line that defines where a growth limit is to occur and where agricultural or rural land is to be preserved.
Carbon sink - carbon dioxide is naturally absorbed by things such as oceans, forests and peat bogs. These are called carbon sinks.
Carbon tax - a charge on fossil fuels based on their carbon content. Find out more at the Carbon Tax Center.
Agricultural Burning: The intentional use of fire for vegetation management in areas such as agricultural fields, orchards, rangelands, and forests.
(and to a lesser extent when forests are cleared). The second is methane, released from rice paddies, both ends of cows, rotting garbage in landfills, mining operations, and gas pipelines.
Renewable resources: Natural resources that have the capacity to be naturally replenished despite being harvested (e.g., forests, fish).
Acid rain from power plants in the midwest United States has also harmed the forests of upstate New York and New England. These areas all burn sulfur-containing coal to generate heat and electricity.
Bamboo flooring - Bamboo is a grass (not a wood) that annually produces new shoots. Individual stems are harvested from controlled forests every three to five years.
Overgrazing of rangelands, large-scale cutting of forests and woodlands, drought, and burning of extensive areas all serve to destroy or degrade the land cover.
40 tonnes (22.49 tons) the average American creates by burning fuels, requires 7 trees. To handle all the CO₂ requires 95 trees. We have already levelled over half the planet’s forests, ...
" to make a difference. A 10-time Independent Press Awards winner and nominee, E is chock full of everything environmental -- from recycling to rainforests, and from the global village to our own backyards.
The rainforests and tigers are examples of biotic resources.
By-Product A useful and marketable product or service that is not the primary product or service being produced. See also co-product.
It also means that many seabirds can live there... including penguins. All these things -- the oceans, the atmosphere, the hot and the cold parts of the planet, deserts, rainforests -- all depend upon climate and upon the sun.
Conditionally renewable resources are those whose exploitation eventually reaches a level beyond which regeneration will become impossible. Such is the case with the clear-cutting of tropical forests.
the name describing upland evergreen shrub swamps and forests in the coastal southeastern United States.
 See also: Environment, Environmental, Forest, Water, Reduce
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