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    Forests cover one third of the Earth's surface and are home to most flora and fauna, playing a vital role in regulating the global climate as carbon sinks. Deforestation occurs on a tremendous scale, contributing to about 15% of carbon emissions and threatening to eliminate all tropical rainforests by 2150 according to some scientists, prompting some South American nations to declare deforestation a national emergency.

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    Forests cover one third of the Earth's surface and are home to most flora and fauna, playing a vital role in regulating the global climate as carbon sinks. Deforestation occurs on a tremendous scale, contributing to about 15% of carbon emissions and threatening to eliminate all tropical rainforests by 2150 according to some scientists, prompting some South American nations to declare deforestation a national emergency.

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    Forests cover one third of the Earth's surface and are home to most flora and fauna, playing a vital role in regulating the global climate as carbon sinks. Deforestation occurs on a tremendous scale, contributing to about 15% of carbon emissions and threatening to eliminate all tropical rainforests by 2150 according to some scientists, prompting some South American nations to declare deforestation a national emergency.

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    The behavior of forests clearing in a tremendous scale is often used to describe

    deforestation. Forests are home to the majority of flora and fauna as it covers as much as
    one third of the Earth’s surface around the world. It also plays a vital role as a global climate
    regulator due to its act as carbon sinks. Through the process of photosynthesis, carbon
    dioxide is stored by the trees. However, an approximation of 15% of gas emissions are
    contributed by deforestation. Some scientists predict that all tropical rainforests will be
    gone by 2150 (Mongillo and Zierdt-Warshaw, 2000). Thus, several South American nations
    have declared the deforestation in their countries is a national emergency (USA Today,
    2008; Vidal,2005). The results of deforestation are crucial to the future of environment, so it
    is important to be clear regarding the causes and impacts of deforestation.

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