How to Use deforestation in a Sentence

deforestation

noun
  • 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
  • Much of that deforestation is thought to be linked to the flourishing drug trade.
    — Neil Giardino, ABC News, 21 Apr. 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 world doesn’t agree on many things, but one of them is that global deforestation is a problem.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • During his tenure, the rate of deforestation in the Amazon has surged.
    — Ciara Nugent, Time, 24 June 2021
  • 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 work features 49 dead cedar trees Lin planted in a rebuke of deforestation.
    — New York Times, 10 June 2021
  • 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
  • Cargill has been criticized for its timetable on deforestation in regards to soy in Brazil.
    — Eben Shapiro, Time, 15 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Pledges at global conferences such as COP26 to halt deforestation are all well and good.
    — Ana Ionova, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Smelting these metals required the Romans to gather large amounts of wood, which also contributed to widespread deforestation and land degradation, per the study.
    — Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2025
  • By tracking changes in 3D data, environmentalists can study changes in forests or crops over time, such as erosion, deforestation, the impact of climate change and the migration patterns of endangered species.
    — Carlos Melendez, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2025

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