Deforestation Many forests around the world are being destroyed for agricultural, comercial, or housing use without allowing time for the forests to regenerate themselves. What can be done to improve the situation? Notes. Write about: 1. What contributes to the greenhouse effect 2. Floods 3. Forest fires DEFORESTATION Nowadays many forests around the world are being destroyed for agricultural, comercial or housing use without allowing time for the forests to regenerate themselves. We need to think solutions about this serious problem. Earth’s forests, it turns out, play a dominant role in absorbing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, acting like a giant sponge and soaking up on average about 9 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year. A problem caused by deforestation is the impact on the global carbon cycle. If greenhouse gases are in large enough quantity, they can force climate change. Forests the world over, have long been associated with helping to reduce flooding. Most flooding disasters have been partly blamed on the effects of deforestation. Another example would be forest blazes. Hundreds of trees are lost each year due to forest fires in various portions of the world. This happens due to extreme warm summer and milder winters. Fires, whether causes by man or nature results in huge loss of forest cover. From my point of view, the best solution is to curb the felling of trees, by employing a series of rules and laws to govern it.