How to Use deforestation in a Sentence
deforestation
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The trees and wildlife have returned, but deforestation took a toll on more than what’s seen on the surface.
— Matt Wyatt, San Antonio Express-News, 1 Dec. 2021 -
The first week of the climate summit saw new pledges to tackle deforestation and to move away from coal.
— BostonGlobe.com, 6 Nov. 2021 -
In fact, 93% of the country is rainforest, and the country has one of the lowest deforestation rates in the world.
— Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 22 June 2022 -
The film captured the scale and gravity of this mass deforestation in unique ways.
— Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2022 -
Already the country has one of the highest levels of deforestation in the world.
— Ahmad Adedimeji Amobi, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Oct. 2022 -
Beef and soy are the biggest drivers of deforestation in the region.
— Simi Thambi, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024 -
Amazon deforestation, trending upward over the past years, reached a record high in the first half of 2022.
— Tatiana Freitas, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2022 -
Food waste, deforestation, and a huge global demand for beef, to name a few.
— NPR, 6 Sep. 2024 -
Guaviare faces one of the highest deforestation rates in Colombia.
— Luis Bernardo Cano, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Oct. 2023 -
The rate of deforestation in the Amazon has varied with the ebbs and flows of the Brazilian economy, hitting a low point about a decade ago.
— New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022 -
That’s helping fund deforestation and large-scale dairy farms, the critics said.
— Grant Stringer, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024 -
Indonesia had the highest deforestation rate in the world in the early 2000s.
— NBC News, 11 Dec. 2021 -
One-third of the class mentioned it, with two eager to focus on deforestation (the clearing of large areas of trees).
— Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2022 -
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 -
What do blocks of color on canvas care about deforestation in the Amazon?
— Adam Bradley, New York Times, 10 May 2024 -
Others include the effects of deforestation, and even how much drought is affecting parts of the world.
— Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 11 June 2022 -
The Ayoreo are native to the Gran Chaco, a massive forest which also suffers from some of the fastest deforestation rates in the world.
— Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2021 -
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 -
By the 1980s, deforestation reached Centinela, perched on an Andean ridge.
— Amanda Schupak, CNN, 13 June 2024 -
Some gains were made, at least on paper: a number of countries signed on to pledges that would halt deforestation by 2030 and cut emissions of methane.
— Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021 -
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 -
Under Bolsonaro, rates of deforestation in the Amazon reached record highs.
— Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2022 -
Ecuador has struggled with deforestation but has been making progress in its efforts to protect the Amazon area.
— Melissa Breyer, Treehugger, 15 Feb. 2023 -
Rapid deforestation of a coastal landscape driven by sea‐level rise and extreme events.
— Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024 -
In its annual 2022 survey, the World Resources Institute found that Malaysia was one of the few places where deforestation did not get worse.
— Patricia Cohen Jes Aznar, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2024 -
Where cases have occurred, researchers are increasingly detecting something that may explain why the virus is emerging and spreading: deforestation.
— Geraldine Castro, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2024
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