(Previous research was not posted.)

I did a simple research on global warming and de-forestation before working on it. But failed to post it... Anyway, here are the new one which have some similarities to the research I did before:

1. ATMOSPHERIC ROLE OF FORESTS

• Rainforests play the important role of locking up atmospheric carbon in their vegetation via photosynthesis.
• The vegetation and soils of the world's forests contain about 125 percent of the carbon found in the atmosphere.
  
• When forests are burned, degraded, or cleared, large amounts of carbon are released into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide along with other greenhouse gases (nitrous oxide, methane, and other nitrogen oxides).
  
• The burning of forests releases about two billion metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year, or about 22 percent of anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide. (http://rainforests.mongabay.com/0907.htm)
  

2. Deforestation: The hidden cause of global warming

• In the next 24 hours, deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York.
• Stopping the loggers is the fastest and cheapest solution to climate change.
• According to the latest audited figures from 2003, two billion tons of CO2 enters the atmosphere every year from deforestation.
  
• The remaining standing forest is calculated to contain 1,000 billion tons of carbon, or double what is already in the atmosphere. (http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/deforestation-the-hidden-cause-of-global-warming-448734.html)
  

3. Deforestation causes global warming

• Between 25 and 30 percent of the greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere each year – 1.6 billion tonnes – is caused by deforestation.
  
• Trees are 50 percent carbon, when they are felled or burned, the C02 they store escapes back into the air.
  
• According to FAO figures, some 13 million ha of forests worldwide are lost every year, almost entirely in the tropics. (http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000385/index.html)