Tropical Deforestation
Tropical Deforestation
by Rebecca Lindsey
design by Robert Simmon
March 30, 2007
Earth Observatory
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Stretching out from the equator on all Earth's land surfaces is a wide belt of forests of amazing diversity and productivity. Tropical forests include dense rainforests, where rainfall is abundant year-round; seasonally moist forests, where rainfall is abundant, but seasonal; and drier, more open woodlands. Tropical forests of all varieties are disappearing rapidly as humans clear the natural landscape to make room for farms and pastures, to harvest timber for construction and fuel, and to build roads and urban areas.
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