Each year, fires burn millions of hectares of forest worldwide

The resulting loss and degradation of forested land is roughly equal to that caused by destructive logging and conversion to agriculture combined, and has wide-reaching consequences on biodiversity, health and the economy, among others.

Fires good and bad
Fire is sometimes essential for forest regeneration, or provides tangible benefits for local communities. In other cases it destroys forests and has dire social and economic consequences.

Forest fires are a natural part of ecosystems in many, but not all, forest types: in boreal and dry tropical forests for example they are a frequent and expected feature, while in tropical moist forests they would naturally be absent or at least rare enough to play a negligible role in ecology.

When fires become a problem…
Fires become a problem when they burn in the wrong places, or in the right places but at the wrong frequency or the wrong temperatures. Fires in forests that burn under natural circumstances become a problem when those forests are used for a particular purpose, such as settlement or timber production.

Pervasive human influence
Globally, most forest fires are probably now directly or indirectly influenced by humans. But in many areas that are hot and dry for part of each year, where frequent fires would be expected, human influence has now become so pervasive that most fires are 'unnatural'.


Devastating to forests & humans
The immediate impact of forest fires can be devastating to human communities and forest ecosystems alike.

Fires can alter the structure and composition of forests, opening up areas to invasion by fast-colonizing alien species and threaten biological diversity.

Buildings, crops and plantations are destroyed and lives can be lost. For companies, fire can mean the destruction of assets; for communities, besides loss of an important resource base, fire can also lead to environmental degradation through impacts on water cycles, soil fertility and biodiversity; and for farmers, fire may mean the loss of crops or even livelihoods.


Devastating to forests & humans
The immediate impact of forest fires can be devastating to human communities and forest ecosystems alike.

Fires can alter the structure and composition of forests, opening up areas to invasion by fast-colonizing alien species and threaten biological diversity.

Buildings, crops and plantations are destroyed and lives can be lost. For companies, fire can mean the destruction of assets; for communities, besides loss of an important resource base, fire can also lead to environmental degradation through impacts on water cycles, soil fertility and biodiversity; and for farmers, fire may mean the loss of crops or even livelihoods.

Health hazards
Severe forest fires, such as those in Indonesia in 1997/1998 and in Australia in 2001/2002, bring critical and in some cases life-threatening levels of pollutants. The health of as many as 75 million people may have been adversely affected by the Indonesian fires, with some 40,000 hospitalized for respiratory and other pollution-related ailments such as asthma, bronchitis and pneumonia, as well as eye and skin problems. The total cost of the fires was estimated at US$9.3 billion.

PREDICTIONS OF DOOMS DAY

The world is going to end at 2012 A.D

Scientific experts from around the world are genuinely predicting that five years from now, all life on Earth could well finish. Some are saying it'll be humans that set it off. Others believe that a natural phenomenon will be the cause. And the religious folks are saying it'll be God himself who presses the stop button...

Can we believe it ? Are we ready for it ? Is it true ?

I have given 7 reasons why the world can end at 2012. Scroll Down..

7 Reasons why the worlds can end at 2012 

Read it to believe it

1. Mayan Calendar

The first mob to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were good at two things:

Building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone and
Sacrificing Virgins.

Thousands of years ago they managed to calculate the length of the lunar moon as 329.53020 days, only 34 seconds out. The Mayan calendar predicts that the Earth will end on December 21, 2012. Given that they were pretty close to the mark with the lunar cycle, it's likely they've got the end of the world right as well.

2. Sun Storms



Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have made a startling discovery: our sun is in a bit of strife. The energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic, and it's supposed to be in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms have been bombarding the Earth with so much radiation energy, it's been knocking out power grids and destroying satellites. This activity is predicted to get worse, and calculations suggest it'll reach its deadly peak sometime in 2012..

3. The Atom Smasher

Scientists in Europe have been building the world's largest particle accelerator. Basically its a 27km tunnel designed to smash atoms together to find out what makes the Universe tick. However, the mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting that it's properly even a bad idea to turn it on in the first place. They're predicting all manner of deadly results, including mini black holes. So when this machine is fired up for its first serious experiment in 2012, the world could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a basketball.

4. The Bible says...

If having scientists warning us about the end of the world isn't bad enough,religious folks are getting in on the act aswell. Interpretations of the Christian Bible reveal that the date for Armageddon, the final battle between Good an Evil, has been set down for 2012. The I Ching, also known as the Chinese book of Changes, says the same thing, as do various sections of the Hindu teachings.

5. Super Volcano



Yellowstone National Park in the United States is famous for its thermal springs and Old Faithful geyser. The reason for this is simple - it's sitting on top of the world's biggest volcano, and geological experts are beginning to get nervous sweats. The Yellowstone volcano has a pattern of erupting every 650,000 years or so, and we're many years overdue for an explosion that will fill the atmosphere with ash, blocking the sun and plunging the Earth into a frozen winter that could last up to 15,000 years. The pressure under the Yellowstone is building steadily, and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date for the big bang.

6. The Physicists

This one's case of bog-simple maths mathematics. Physicists at Berekely Uni have been crunching the numbers. and they've determined that the Earth is well overdue for a major catastrophic event. Even worse, they're claiming their calculations prove, that we're all going to die, very soon - while also saying their prediction comes with a certainty of 99 percent- and 2012 just happens to be the best guess as to when it occurs.

7. Slip-Slop-Slap-BANG!

We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that sheilds us from most of the sun's radiation. What you might not know is that the magnetic poles we call north and south have a nasty habit of swapping places every 750,000 years or so - and right now we're about 30,000 years overdue. Scientists have noted that the poles are drifting apart roughly 20-30kms each year, much faster than ever before, which points to a pole-shift being right around the corner. While the pole shift is underway, the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear, sometimes for up to 100 years. The result is enough UV outdoors to crisp your skin in seconds, killing everything it touches.

DEDICATED TO OUR EARTH AND NATURE

The wonder of nature is a magical thing.
The beauty of nature many poets sing.
In this vast world I am very small,'
Like a few grains of sand on a wall.

Nature is there to admire.
On nature I do desire,
To write a few words for all to see,
What nature really means to me.

Moonlight the Sunlight ,
birds and the bees,
The flowers the leaves,
Fruit on the trees, 

The rivers, lakes
mountains and plains
they are not just beautiful,
but life they do sustain.

the animals plants fish,
the reptile and we
depends on nature,
I am sure you will agree.


Without nature
The world will soon dissapear.
Do not destroy
the air that we breathe,

killing our forests
disposing nuclear waste
is chocking mother earth
at a very fast rate

the snow caps are melting,
climate has changed.
we got to be careful,
before nature is deranged. 

I am alive and I use nature in my every day, I want to tell every one
we should respect this beautiful world we live in ,and do not destroy it, We should preserve it for generations to come., I am a but a grain of sand  and iIwould like to give back to the earth what it gives to me life , we are here because of nature after we go we become a part of nature, 
THIS IS MY OWN POEM WHICH I DEDICATE TO EARTH AND NATURE 
I AM NOT MUCH OF A POET BUT I DO LIKE TO WRITE DOWN MY FEELINGS
NANETTE DORAN ,
ALSO KNOW AS CLUELESSNAN

THIS EARTH IS OURS ( a poem by nanette)

This earth is ours for years untold,
This earth is ours to have and behold,
The mountains valleys plains and dales
Filled with forest rivers, and fauna.
With lots of beautiful things upon her
Animal Bird Fish too
Trees and flowers of every hue.
If only we could keep it this way.
Beautiful fresh and clean,

But man in his greedy stride,
Has changed this enchanted paradise,
To a concrete jungle full of smoke.
Chocked with carbon is our air,
Ghastly chemicals every where,
Fuming chimneys, chocked up lakes.
The earth has been filled with dirty plaque.
Computers, bombs, nuclear and space,
Is now first  priority, of the human race.
this is the path to destruction.
As any one could  see.
In time there will be no you, nor me

MY FIRST ATEMPT AT WRITING POEMS
FIRST WRITTEN IN   7TH MARCH 1992
PUBLISHED ON MY BLOG TODAY 1O CTOBER 2009
CLUELESSNAN

PLANT MORE TREES TO SAVE MOTHER EARTH

Wangari Maathai

[Kenyan Wangari Maathai, also known  as Mama Miti or  Mother of the Trees won the Nobel Peace prize in 2004. In 1977, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, a grassroots environmental non-governmental organization, which has now planted over 40 million trees across Kenya to prevent soil erosion.  Since then, she has been increasingly active on both environmental and women's issues.

In 2006, Maathai was one of the founders of The Nobel Women's Initiative along with sister Nobel Peace Laureates Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan Maguire. Six women representing North America and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa decided to bring together their experiences in a united effort for peace with justice and equality. It is the goal of the Nobel Women's Initiative to help strengthen work being done in support of women's rights around the world.]

5 DEADLY EFFECTS OF GLOBAL WARMING

1Polar ice caps melting
The ice caps melting is a four-pronged danger. First, it will raise sea levels. There are 5,773,000 cubic miles of water in ice caps, glaciers, and permanent snow. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, if all glaciers melted today the seas would rise about 230 feet. Luckily, that’s not going to happen all in one go! But sea levels will rise.
Second, melting ice caps will throw the global ecosystem out of balance. The ice caps are fresh water, and when they melt they will desalinate the ocean, or in plain English – make it less salty. The desalinization of the gulf current will “screw up” ocean currents, which regulate temperatures. The stream shutdown or irregularity would cool the area around north-east America and Western Europe. Luckily, that will slow some of the other effects of global warming in that area!
Third, temperature rises and changing landscapes in the artic circle will endanger several species of animals. Only the most adaptable will survive.
Fourth, global warming could snowball with the ice caps gone. Ice caps are white, and reflect sunlight, much of which is relected back into space, further cooling Earth. If the ice caps melt, the only reflector is the ocean. Darker colors absorb sunlight, further warming the Earth.
Economic consequences
2 Most of the effects of anthropogenic global warming won’t be good. And these effects spell one thing for the countries of the world: economic consequences. Hurricanes cause do billions of dollars in damage, diseases cost money to treat and control and conflicts exacerbate all of these.
 Green houses gases stay can stay in the atmosphere for an amount of years ranging from decades to hundreds and thousands of years. No matter what we do, global warming is going to have some effect on Earth. Here are the 5 deadliest effects of global warming.
3 Spread of disease
As northern countries warm, disease carrying insects migrate north, bringing plague and disease with them. Indeed some scientists believe that in some countries thanks to global warming, malaria has not been fully eradicated.

4 Warmer waters and more hurricanes
As the temperature of oceans rises, so will the probability of more frequent and stronger hurricanes. We saw in this in 2004 and 2005.


5 Increased probability and intensity of droughts and heat waves
Although some areas of Earth will become wetter due to global warming, other areas will suffer serious droughts and heat waves. Africa will receive the worst of it, with more severe droughts also expected in Europe. Water is already a dangerously rare commodity in Africa, and according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, global warming will exacerbate the conditions and could lead to conflicts and war.

Globl warming is the cause of a number of damaging effects to the earth and its inhabitants,  and now we may have a new threat on the horizon... world war  The tensions of global warming continue to heat up, so may the possibilities of war... a Hot War!

There are two obvious factors which will be the cause of the increasing threat of a World War IV

1.Crowding and Territorial Tensions- The number one cause of such tensions will be the migration of different cultures to other territories in search of new resources to replace the increasingly depleting ones. Not only will many cultures find their resources disappearing, but the rising sea level will cover over parts of much of the land, minimizing usable farm area, fresh water, and cattle herds. In some cases, entire islands may become submerged.
Instead of allowing their sovereignty to disappear along with their dry ground, many of these endangered cultures will choose to battle with nearby countries in order to set-up their governments and house their citizens upon alternative soil. Inevitably larger powers will become a part of such squabbles and before you know it, we've got a world war on our hands.
2.Competition of Newly Habitable Lands- The opposite scenario of crowding may also occur as the open space around the Arctic regions becomes available due to the increased air temperatures. As these uninhabitable areas become habitable for the first time in history, competition from the various coastal countries and islands who have lost their native homeland will become fierce.
In addition to the smaller powers, larger world powers who previously ignored such land will eventually see the profit potential of such areas and involve themselves in the competition. The large nations will be less interested in the usable space and more keen on the possibility of exploiting the relatively untapped oil resources of these areas for strategic economic positioning.
While this may seem like a gloomy outlook, the truth is that it is still only an outlook. There are steps the various countries and governments can take in order to reduce the possibilities of such an outcome.