How does deforestation affect the carbon cycle?

Deforestation has an effect on the Carbon Cycle also known as the Greenhouse gas effect and global warming. Trees and forest balance the amount of Carbon in the atmosphere through the process of photosynthesis in which plants make their own food with carbon dioxide. read more

Deforestation is a detrimental act whether it is on in existence are rotated. For example, the carbon that makes you up may have been part of a tree or dissolved carbon in water. The carbon cycle has no specific stages, like the water cycle. The carbon atoms just travel to a location and react there. read more

Because plants are one of the main storage areas for carbon, deforestation reduces the number of trees, and therefore, more carbon (in the form of carbon dioxide) remains in the atmosphere and disrupts the normal carbon cycle. read more