deforestation in English

noun

[de·for·est·a·tion || diː‚fɒrɪ'steɪʃn]

process of clearing forests or trees

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1. Transport, industry, deforestation, agriculture...

2. Bamboo boards help reduce deforestation

3. Deforestation in Laos Philip's (1994).

4. Deforestation follows a Kuznets curve, too.

5. Brazil's deforestation rate has dropped astoundingly fast.

6. Another example of massive deforestation is the eucalyptus.

7. Severe deforestation has accelerated soil erosion and reduced productivity.

8. Deforestation is destroying large areas of tropical rain forest.

9. For example , deforestation must be followed by afforestation .

10. Fisheries, aquaculture, deforestation, climate change, food security and so on.

11. Some parts of tropical America have seen over 70% deforestation.

12. Weakened by deforestation, the hills formed huge mud slides.

13. But it is not only clamour to stop deforestation.

14. Deforestation is ongoing and is shaping climate and geography.

15. Deforestation has been shown to cause floods and drought.

16. Overgrazing by sheep and goats contributed to the deforestation.

17. But elsewhere, deforestation is a last resort to survive.

18. Unlike acid rain or deforestation, global warming has no visible manifestation .

19. Environmental issues in Singapore include air, water pollution, and deforestation.

20. The North Sulawesi Babirusa is threatened from hunting and deforestation.

21. But deforestation in the Himalayas has played a key part.

22. The government, however, reported a deforestation rate double this figure.

23. The North Sulawesi babirusa is threatened from hunting and deforestation.

24. This degradation makes the forest less valuable and may lead to deforestation.

25. These farming practices led to deforestation and caused extensive environmental damage.

26. Reasons for the subspecies' critical endangerment are largely due to deforestation.

27. The black-browed Babbler has survived despite massive deforestation in lowland Borneo

28. Unfortunately, global carbon emissions from deforestation now equals the global transportation sector.

29. The extensive deforestation leads to a rise of the average surface temperature.

30. Valuable topsoil is washed from many slopes as a result of deforestation.

31. Of particular importance is the effect that deforestation has on tropical soils.

32. This Ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to

33. Just last week there were more alarming reports about deforestation in Brazil.

34. Last year, the rate of deforestation in the Amazon declined by almost 30 percent.

35. Agriculture, deforestation and the other secondary sources of greenhouse gases are critical to many.

36. Both a simple version, called pure deforestation, and its enhanced version, called Blazed …

37. There are indications that deforestation and forest fragmentation are accelerating this gradual desiccation.

38. Mining and drilling can require large amounts of land development, directly causing deforestation.

39. Like most of the forest species, it is threatened by deforestation and hunting.

40. Rats also contributed to deforestation; evidence shows that they ate the palm nut.

41. As of 2016, Thailand has an average annual deforestation rate of 0.72 percent.

42. (d) “Deforestation” is the direct human-induced conversion of forested land to non-forested land;

43. Some gains are clearly possible but not without high investments, accelerated deforestation, and land degradation.

44. The land is severely eroded as a result of widespread deforestation and intensive farming.

45. By 2008, deforestation was 12% of total CO2, or 15% if peatlands are included.

46. 800 The amount of tree pollen in sediment decreases, suggesting deforestation is under way.

47. Since the western purple-faced langur is naturally arboreal, deforestation also impacts its activities besides eating.

48. "The mudslide was caused by geology, but it was worsened by deforestation, " Dr. Qi says today.

49. Deforestation and natural loss of forest continue at an alarming rate in several regions and countries.

50. Environmentalists warn that deforestation of this critical watershed area could have disastrous consequences for downstream regions.