A recent U.N.O report issues the strongest warning to avert the worst impact of the climatic change. You decide to write an article on the issue for your school magazine. Write the article using ideas from the unit 'Environment'

 

CLIMATE CHANGE AND FORESTS

Forests are vitally important as they soak up carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas responsible for global warming, and help regulate the world’s climate. They’re also home to countless plant and animal species. We’re working with communities, local governments and businesses to ensure the world’s forests are protected.

HOW FORESTS ARE EFFECTED BY CLIMATE CHANGE

Impacts vary in different kinds of forests. Sub-Arctic boreal forests are likely to be particularly badly affected, with tree lines gradually retreating north as temperatures rise. In tropical forests such as the Amazon, where there’s abundant biodiversity, even modest levels of climate change can cause high levels of extinction.

IMPACTS OF DEFORESTATION

When large areas of forest are destroyed it’s disastrous for the local species and communities that rely on them. Dying trees emit their stores of carbon dioxide, adding to atmospheric greenhouse gases and setting us on a course for runaway global warming.