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The paper discusses how environmental effects of deforestation are caused by dry lands, degradation, climatic changes and human activities. The paper explains that these contributions lead to global warming, which results towards destroying global biodiversity of life on Earth. The paper looks at how the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in 1992 defines deforestation as "land degradation in arid, semi-arid, and sub-human areas resulting from various factors including climatic variations and human activities" (Innes 1).

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"The process of deforestation in various geographical regions is wiping out the environment. Deforestation changes the environment by cutting down and slashing forests into open lands in an effort to raise crops for agriculture, urbanization and industrialization. The effects of deforestation are hazardous because it alters biodiversity, the ecosystem and environment and destroys our social surroundings. Deforestation is associated with carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere, which alters climatic changes. It is gravely important to replenish the forest or reforestation in an effort to have more biodiversity on Earth. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in..."

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