Deforestation remains the greatest current threat to the world's forests
Deforestation remains the greatest current threat to the world's forests, claiming 10 to 15 million hectares of tree-covered areas every year, but climate change may represent a bigger challenge in the long term, scientists say. "We're like a two-year-old playing with fire ... We're messing around with something dangerous and don't really understand what will happen," says William Laurance, of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Balboa, Panama, in reference to climate change and the Amazon rainforest.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/112206EA.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/112206EA.shtml
rudkla - 23. Nov, 11:20
