How to Use deforestation in a Sentence

deforestation

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• August, which falls in the dry season, is typically the second worst month for both deforestation and fire.
  — Fabiano Maisonnave, ajc, 24 Aug. 2022
• That means more demand for pasture and feed crops, more deforestation and more climate problems.
  — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Aug. 2022
• Lula, as he is known, presided over a drastic drop in the rate of deforestation during his eight years as president.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 7 July 2022
• Over the last few decades, Costa Rica has worked hard to repair the damage of previous deforestation.
  — Kassondra Cloos, Outside Online, 27 Sep. 2024
• Yet these losses don’t register with the same force as deforestation.
  — Julia Rosen, The Atlantic, 25 July 2022
• The same is true for the Amazon, the U.N. said, with three droughts occurring since the turn of the century and triggering forest fires, with climate change and deforestation also to blame.
  — Time, 11 May 2022
• But land degradation and deforestation isn't just a concern for tropical countries.
  — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 24 Oct. 2024
• Stopping global temperatures from rising even more, however, will require putting an end to emissions from the burning of fossil fuels and from other sources such as deforestation and agriculture.
  — Saima S. Iqbal, Scientific American, 13 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024