How to Use deforestation in a Sentence

deforestation

noun

• Harvesting this vegetable oil is a huge driver of deforestation.
  — James Dinneen, Wired, 8 Jan. 2022
• Indonesia had the highest deforestation rate in the world in the early 2000s.
  — NBC News, 11 Dec. 2021
• Future demand could contribute to even more deforestation.
  — James Dinneen, Wired, 8 Jan. 2022
• But now human behaviors such as deforestation and urbanization, along with climate change, are erasing those zones.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2022
• And deforestation may be making the situation even worse, according to new research.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2022
• Stopping deforestation is another quick fix, Foley says.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 27 Dec. 2021
• This is part of an ambitious global effort to reverse the effects of deforestation and land degradation by 2030.
  — Chantal James, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2021
• Globally, farming itself is responsible for about 12% of all greenhouse gas emissions and is the leading cause of deforestation and habitat loss.
  — Erik Fyrwald, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2021
• But commercial forestry requires neither cutting short the lives of ancient and culturally valued trees nor practicing clear-cutting or other forms of deforestation.
  — Robin Lloyd, Scientific American, 24 Dec. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Harpy eagles are facing serious challenges, mainly because of habitat loss due to deforestation.
  — Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 23 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: 15 Dec 2024