Deforestation Articles & Analysis
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Appropriate management involves the protection of mangrove areas in key settings, and the restoration or planting of mangroves in degraded and deforested settings, where local conditions have been shown to support the establishment of mangrove seedlings. ...
Indoor air pollution is also linked to low birth weight, burn injuries, eye cataracts, cardiovascular disease, asthma, and tuberculosisAnd burning biomass contributes to environmental degradation and deforestation. Improved and efficient stoves could help reduce fuel use and decrease black carbon (a key component of soot) emissions. ...
In addition to respiratory disease caused by smoke, the fuel needed by inefficient stoves leads to—deforestation, and environmental degradation. "Many people in developed countries don't realize that smoke from indoor cooking fires is a terrible scourge upon the health of a large number of people," said Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D, director of the National Institutes of ...