deforestation
noun
, -ˌfär-\
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If deforestation continues unabated, Ivory Coast risks losing all its forest cover by 2034, environmental campaigners say. — Tim Cocks And Ange Aboa, The Christian Science Monitor, "Ivory Coast, chocolate giants team up to make cocoa production more sustainable," 19 Apr. 2018 The goal is to better understand how deforestation is adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and how new, growing trees are capturing the gas. — Loren Grush, The Verge, "Watch SpaceX launch thousands of pounds of cargo and experiments to the International Space Station," 5 Dec. 2018 The mountain, a source of traditional creation stories, is under severe pressure from the rampant, corruption-fueled deforestation across Mozambique that supplies a foreign market, primarily China. — Washington Post, "Coffee and conservation: Mozambique tries both on a mountain," 11 July 2018 The mountain, a source of traditional creation stories, is under severe pressure from the rampant, corruption-fueled deforestation across Mozambique that supplies a foreign market, primarily China. — Christopher Torchia, Fox News, "Coffee and conservation: Mozambique tries both on a mountain," 11 July 2018 Overfishing and deforestation severely threatened the fish and bird population. — Nina Sovich, WSJ, "Secret Safaris: Little-Known National Parks in Africa," 22 Feb. 2019 Price of Climate Series His initial business plan was to buy up forest concessions to grow palm oil, the crop that is driving much of Indonesia’s deforestation. — Jon Emont, WSJ, "One Man’s Money-Draining Bet on Climate Change," 27 Dec. 2018 Due to the current drought and massive deforestation throughout the country, women have to walk longer distances to access these basic necessities. — Mélissa Godin, Teen Vogue, "Climate Change Is Creating a New Atmosphere of Gender Inequality for Women in Malawi," 20 Dec. 2018 Right now, Indonesia’s policies are allowing for deforestation, and are far too fossil-fuel centric. — Nithin Coca, Vox, "The most important country for the global climate no one is talking about," 6 Dec. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'deforestation.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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