deforestation

Ranches in the Amazon, for example, get their space from deforestation.

Washington excused its employment on the grounds that U.S. forces used it for purposes of “deforestation” and not against people.

By June, deforestation in the rainforest region had dropped to a 23-year low, and is down 75 percent just since 2004.

Half of the pledged cuts will come from reduced deforestation.

Brazil is the fourth-largest greenhouse-gas emitter in the world, largely due to the deforestation of the Amazon.

My father always seemed to be traveling to some exotic place to raise awareness on deforestation issues and species protection.

I think the deforestation of the country is probably the cause of these terrible visitations.

If all the trees were bread and cheese there would be considerable deforestation in any part of England where I was living.

Perhaps deforestation and subsequent increased aridity might account for the desertion of these once-cultivated lands.

Now our great forests are largely depleted, and scientific deforestation has become an absolute necessity.

Deforestation may result in filling a river-channel and in stopping boats a thousand miles downstream.