How to Use deforestation in a Sentence

deforestation

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  • Guaviare faces one of the highest deforestation rates in Colombia.
    — Luis Bernardo Cano, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2023
  • And there are signs the trajectory of global deforestation may change for the better in the near future.
    — Manuela Andreoni, New York Times, 27 June 2023
  • The speeches are interspersed with video clips of deforestation, garbage and the impacts of climate change such as floods.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 25 June 2023
  • The forest has lost over 80 percent of its tree cover due to deforestation.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The main reason why deforestation is occurring is to make room for farms.
    — Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024
  • With these advances in software and hard-tech, in 2024, the global fight against deforestation will finally start to grow new shoots.
    — Alloysius Attah, WIRED, 8 Jan. 2024
  • That, in turn, could unleash more deforestation around the world as land is cleared to backfill food production displaced in the United States, Searchinger said.
    — Evan Halper, Washington Post, 15 Dec. 2023
  • This is a problem since cocoa is known to be a primary driver of deforestation in the region.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 26 May 2023
  • Ecuador has struggled with deforestation but has been making progress in its efforts to protect the Amazon area.
    — Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Still, in the Cerrado, deforestation rose 3% over the same period.
    — Andre Cabette Fabio, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Salles began to see these people as the hidden victims of deforestation.
    — John Muyskens, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Among the signatories of the declaration was Brazil; in the six months following the conference, deforestation rates in the country soared to new highs.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The funding could have gone to projects anywhere in the world, such as to reduce deforestation or turn methane from manure pits into energy.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Many see stopping deforestation as an intractable problem that would eat up the scarce money set aside to combat pandemics.
    — Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Similarly, an incoming EU law to ban the import of beef linked to deforestation might reduce the number of cows owned by ranchers in the Amazon.
    — Noah Gordon, The New Republic, 3 Oct. 2023
  • In Alto Mayo, Peru, for example, homes were destroyed in the name of stopping deforestation.
    — Saima May Sidik, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
  • This process transforms fertile soil into the desert, often because of drought or deforestation.
    — Farai Mutsaka and Jamey Keaten, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Feb. 2023
  • However, the failure to agree on a common policy to end deforestation in the Amazon is concerning, as the fate of the rainforest is critical to the health of the planet.
    — Tatiana Arias, CNN, 9 Aug. 2023
  • In the wild, many orangutans’ habitats have been wiped out due to deforestation for commercial palm oil production in their native home of Southeast Asia.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Malaysia has historically had one of the world's highest rates of deforestation.
    — Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 24 Nov. 2022
  • Across the planet, people doomed birds through deforestation, overhunting and fire.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
  • There are also questions about giving credits to projects that avoid deforestation.
    — Jessica F. Green, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2023
  • On the North American mainland, levels of deforestation that had taken centuries to achieve in Europe occurred in decades.
    — Ben Ehrenreich, The New Republic, 10 May 2023
  • In the case of the Amazon region, legal personhood serves to limit deforestation and its impact on the Indigenous Wari' people.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 16 Aug. 2023
  • But reducing carbon emissions and limiting deforestation could take the worst-case scenario out of the running.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Palm oil has been a large driver of deforestation, especially in Southeast Asia.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 June 2023
  • Yet the conflict, in which some McCoys took the Hatfield side and vice versa, is better understood as a logging-rights dispute prompted by deforestation and the arrival of the railroad.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
  • Although officials are optimistic about these numbers, deforestation is still a problem in the Amazon, and more will need to be done to completely end it.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 13 July 2023
  • But even as these critical ecosystems work with Earth’s oceans to help scrub CO2 from the atmosphere and give us air to breathe, tropical forests have long faced growing threats from fires, poaching and deforestation.
    — Dorany Pineda, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The idea that deforestation and human encroachment into wild land fuels pandemics is not new.
    — Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 11 Feb. 2023

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