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Balboni and Olken write: "The conservationist lobby must pay the government in perpetuity … while the deforestation-oriented lobby need pay only once to deforest in the present."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023
"Landowners circling in planes, soya farmers wanting to buy the land to deforest it."
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2023
“They come to deforest, to extract timber and to dig for gold,” Indigenous leader Mydjere Kayapo told the AP in a phone interview.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
For example, cutting down large swaths of forests just for energy production is not a sustainable option because our energy demands are so great that we would quickly deforest the world, destroying critical habitat.
From Textbooks ● Sep. 6, 2018
If we deforest these steep slopes, water is going to injure them much more than it would the gentler slopes of the lower lands, if they had been deforested.
From Conservation Reader by Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman)
“With a name like Humphrey DeForest Bogart, you’ve got to be tough,” intones Bogie in director Kathryn Ferguson’s insightful and entertaining documentary, “Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes,” now in theaters.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2024
"In the past 10 years, there's been a shift in the world of cell biology," said co-senior author Cole DeForest, a UW associate professor of chemical engineering and of bioengineering.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 2024
The absurdity of glorying in such minor athletic triumphs has never been captured more lovingly and amusingly than in a special released this year by Kenny DeForest.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
An outpouring of grief from his friends and fellow comics noted that DeForest, a native of Springfield, Missouri, was known for his kindness and positive personality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023
DeForest on its practical side, the subject of Japanese Confucianism.
From The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by Griffis, William Elliot
More goods are expected to flow between the European Union and South American countries, increasing the chance of exports from deforested lands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
In this, globally operating trading companies agreed to no longer purchase soy grown in freshly deforested areas.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2024
In Manaus, the capital of Amazonas state, the first cases in the current outbreak were detected near recently deforested areas.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 4, 2024
An upcoming EU law to reduce the import of products from deforested land does not include much of the Cerrado, as it is not considered a forest under the legislation.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2024
Broad valleys were completely deforested and dotted with villages, and drained and fenced fields for intensive food production covered entire valley floors.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
“Any supplier found to be illegally deforesting will be removed from our supply chain,” Olam Food Ingredients, or Ofi, said in a statement to AP, adding that it’s “investigating thoroughly.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2023
And yet, it can be hard to identify who is doing the deforesting.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2023
The report estimates that 600,000 tonnes of CO2 was emitted by deforesting these areas, the equivalent of 1.2 million flights from London to New York.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2022
If we’re going to feed the world without deforesting it, we need to do so on the 50 percent of habitable land that’s already used for agriculture.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2022
The havoc of deforesting is not stayed, nor like to be while forest tracts remain.
From Vermont A Study of Independence by Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)
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