deforestation

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Topical Term
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deforestation

The challenge of extinction

1991
Focuses on the scientific, technological, and social impacts of plant and animal extinction.

Shrinking forests

1991
Explores the role of temperate and tropical forests in the Earth's ecosystems, and discusses the threat posed to forest resources by pollution, development, and lack of careful conservation.

Deforestation

2010
Introduces deforestation through overviews, primary source quotes, and color illustrated facts and statistics.

Fading forests

the destruction of our rainforests
2003
Examines the ecology, importance, and systematic destruction of the world's rain forests.

Rain forest destruction

2007
Explores the problem of rain forest destruction, discussing the importance of rain forests to Earth, the causes and effects of deforestation, and what people can do to save rain forest biomes.

Let them eat shrimp

the tragic disappearance of the rainforests of the sea
2011
Argues that mangrove forests in coastal areas throughout the tropics are being lost to hurricanes, shrimp farms, and land developers, at great ecological and economic cost to the native dwellers.

Coping with-- wood trash

1994
Text and photographs discuss the uses of wood, how wood is processed, how wood trash can be recycled, and what can be done to protect this resource for the future.

Ravaged temperate forests

1993
Describes the characteristics of a temperate forest and examines the reasons these forests are at risk and what can be done to save them.

Rainforest destruction

1990
Examines the crisis the world faces as a result of rainforest destruction, suggesting worldwide efforts that must be made and some things students can do to halt this disaster.

The rainforest

1997
Discusses the problem of rainforest destruction, looking at the reasons for and consequences of this destruction, and what can be done to stop it.

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