Nearly 17 million acres of Mexican forests in some 1, communities are logged.

Feb 27, Students may focus on cutting down trees as impacting other things, such as the availability of clean air or shade for people or homes for wildlife. Watch this video of 6th and 8th grade students in California. The purpose of this classroom video is to see students explain the connection between cutting down trees and climate stumpcutting.barted Reading Time: 3 mins.

Jun 03, Communities cutting down trees can help confront climate change. Written by Contributing Writer. June 3, By David Barton Bray. To stop deforestation, mitigate climate change and help poor rural communities all at the same time, it’s time to examine a little-known experience in Mexico. Planting trees and protecting forests is a popular strategy for confronting climate change. Apr 06, Another false claim is that it’s OK from a climate perspective to cut trees and turn them into furniture, plywood, and other items because wood products can store substantial amounts of carbon.

These assertions fail to count cradle-to-grave emissions.

Nearly 17 million acres of Mexican forests in some 1, communities are logged under formal government-approved management by the CFEs.

Undisturbed forests are crucial for a healthy climate, continuously taking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and storing it in trees, shrubs and soil. But logging can transform a swath of forest from a carbon “sink” into a carbon source, not only destroying CO 2 -absorbing trees but emitting tons of new greenhouse gases in the process.

Nov 07, By planting more than a half trillion trees, the authors say, we could capture about gigatons of carbon (a gigaton is 1 billion metric tons), reducing atmospheric carbon by about 25 percent. That’s enough to negate about 20 years of human-produced carbon emissions at the current rate, or about half of all carbon emitted by humans since Estimated Reading Time: 10 mins. Feb 07, In terms of climate change, cutting trees both adds carbon dioxide to the air and removes the ability to absorb existing carbon dioxide.

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If tropical deforestation were a Author: Christina Nunez. The usefulness of urban trees in combating climate change is not so much in absorbing carbon dioxide as it is in using them to reduce our carbon footprint. More than half the world’s population lives in cities, so by strategically choosing and placing urban trees, we can have big impacts on energy. Jul 27, When trees are cut down and burned or allowed to rot, their stored carbon is released into the air as carbon dioxide.

And this is how deforestation and forest degradation contribute to global warming. According to the best current estimate, deforestation is responsible for about 10 percent of all global warming emissions.