All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 November Strategies to reduce rising temperatures caused by deforestation Strategies to reduce rising temperatures caused by deforestation 16/11/2021 | 2 MINS Researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology have used satellite imagery to find ways to avoid the worst-possible temperature increases in South East Asian countries due to deforestation. An article, recently published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, outlined how the researchers built a web mapping tool to explore the effects of different patterns and areas of forest loss on local temperatures in South East Asia. South East Asian countries have rapidly lost their tropical forests in recent decades due to expanding palm oil and timber plantations, logging, mining and the establishment of small-scale farms. The importance of forests in preventing climate change was recognised at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow this month, during which leaders of nations representing 85 per cent of Earth's remaining forests committed to ending forest loss by 2030.
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 November Strategies to reduce rising temperatures caused by deforestation Strategies to reduce rising temperatures caused by deforestation 16/11/2021 | 2 MINS Researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology have used satellite imagery to find ways to avoid the worst-possible temperature increases in South East Asian countries due to deforestation.
An article, recently published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, outlined how the researchers built a web mapping tool to explore the effects of different patterns and areas of forest loss on local temperatures in South East Asia.
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South East Asian countries have rapidly lost their tropical forests in recent decades due to expanding palm oil and timber plantations, logging, mining and the establishment of small-scale farms.
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The importance of forests in preventing climate change was recognised at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow this month, during which leaders of nations representing 85 per cent of Earth's remaining forests committed to ending forest loss by 2030.
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