The North American Nursing Diagnosis Association (NANDA) defines nursing diagnosis as a clinical judgment about individual, community or family responses to community to actual or potential health problems or life processes. All types of diagnoses are similar.
Effects. All of these activities contribute to the major deforestation we are seeing now, and this destruction is hugely detrimental to the environment. Drought. One effect of the clearing is drought. The rainforest produces half of its own rainfall as the trees release moisture into the atmosphere. As trees disappear, so does this rain, causing the remaining trees to dry up and die. The drought can also lead to wildfires, which destroy even more of rainforest.
The devastating drought currently affecting the Amazon rainforest is part of a vicious cycle created by the combined affects of global warming and deforestation and could cause the collapse of the rainforest, according to scientists (1) from the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia and Greenpeace.