Rainforest plants also produce around 25 percent of all drugs on the market. Scientists have examined only around 1 percent of tropical plants, but in that sample, they've discovered treatments for medical problems, such as high blood pressure and leukemia, according to Live Science. The U. National Cancer Institute also reports that rainforests account for 70 percent of the plants that the society finds useful for cancer treatment.
As rainforests disappear, so do all these beneficial products and medicines. Rainforests play an important role in regulating global temperatures, according to Rainforest Alliance. Climate scientists say that rainforest conservation and the conversion to sustainable agriculture could play a significant part in slowing global climate change.
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How viruses shape our world. The era of greyhound racing in the U. The trees also help control the level of water in the atmosphere by helping to regulate the water cycle. In deforested areas, there is less water in the air to be returned to the soil.
This then causes dryer soil and the inability to grow crops. Further effects of deforestation include soil erosion and coastal flooding. Trees help the land to retain water and topsoil, which provides the rich nutrients to sustain additional forest life.
Without forests, the soil erodes and washes away, causing farmers to move on and perpetuate the cycle. The barren land which is left behind in the wake of these unsustainable agricultural practices is then more susceptible to flooding, specifically in coastal regions. As large amounts of forests are cleared away, allowing exposed earth to whither and die and the habitats of innumerable species to be destroyed, the indigenous communities who live there and depend on the forest to sustain their way of life are also under threat.
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