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Deforestation

[dee-fawr-ist, -for-]

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verb (used with object)

to divest or clear of forests or trees: Poor planning deforested the area in ten years.

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Origin:
1530–40; de- + forest

Related forms

de·for·est·a·tion, noun

de·for·est·er, noun

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Brazil has resisted programs to reduce deforestation.

Deforestation and agriculture often produce land that is less capable of holding water.

Thus the country's overall deforestation rate also slumped.

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Brazil has resisted programs to reduce deforestation.

Deforestation and agriculture often produce land that is less capable of holding water.

Thus the country's overall deforestation rate also slumped.

Not coincidentally, the same places are plagued by deforestation and other unsustainable exploitation of natural resources.

Sometimes the deforestation isn't driven by illegal logging, he says.

For more than two millennia, people had lamented that deforestation had resulted in rising temperatures.

Haiti suffers from severe deforestation resulting in great losses of topsoil and landslides.

Deforestation rates in many countries remain alarmingly high.

Avoided deforestation is a big deal for climate-change policy.

Experts say climate change and deforestation are to blame.

There was progress around the edges on a climate fund and deforestation.

Deforestation and the introduction of dogs, cats and mongooses that eat solenodons threaten to drive the critters to extinction.

Growing demand for soybeans and other sources of biodiesel could also accelerate deforestation.

Reversing tropical deforestation could be surprisingly cheap and easy because it can be driven by simple economics.

They fear the reform will also encourage deforestation.

Red pandas are endangered, victims of deforestation.

With current political rhetoric, an implication is drawn that deforestation is justified.

New roads and rapid deforestation are opening up habitats once too remote to explore.

Tropical forest deforestation could be almost entirely stopped by buying out the logging permits.

Cutting down trees to fire primitive cook stoves is also a cause of deforestation.

His state has a poor record on slowing deforestation.

Everywhere, the biggest threat facing the bird is deforestation.

There might even be an agreement to stop deforestation.

No one is sure what happened, but climate change, deforestation and invasive species have all been suggested as possible culprits.

Because what a lovely idea to start with problems/opportunities in waste management and deforestation.

Conservation efforts in the country have struggled against ever greater deforestation and decades of environmental neglect.

Hunted in the past by local tribes for their striking black-and-white coats, the monkeys' biggest threat today is deforestation.

While scrap wood may be plentiful at the time, deforestation is still an issue.

But loopholes and exemptions mean that it may not slow down deforestation much.

Deforestation has actually caused major issues for the fishermen.

In some parts of the world, deforestation is only expanding, with dire consequences for biodiversity and the climate.

Decades of deforestation have taken their toll, transforming this once-fertile region into a parched wasteland.

From agriculture to deforestation to sprawl, weâ re changing the planet arguably as much as any errant asteroid ever did.

The bats are especially vulnerable due to ongoing deforestation in the region, researchers warn.

Orangutans are critically endangered in the wild because of rapid deforestation and the expansion of palm oil plantations.

Originally, oak and pistachio woodlands were more widespread, but deforestation has substantially altered the landscape.

Payments to poor communities to resist deforestation could save species habitats.

The deforestation of hillsides means that rainwater rushes off slopes rather than being absorbed for later percolation.

Deforestation has also taken an enormous toll on the bongos' natural habitat, with farmland encroaching on the wild forest.

For example, urbanization and deforestation can cause an increased tendency for flash floods and mudslides from heavy rain.

The aim is to help monitor deforestation in tropical countries since many diseases jump from animals to.

Illegal logging is speeding deforestation and the southward advance of the.

Yet many environmentalists fear that such deforestation is a harbinger of things to come.

It is understood that deforestation reduces available water and increases desertification.

Stopping further deforestation globally is an obvious first step in stabilizing global climates.

Yes, a lot of these cuts will come from reduced deforestation.

Logging and deforestation continue to shrink the space that spider monkeys are able to call home.

My suspicion is that there is a systemic flaw in the ground-based data wrt to correcting for human development, deforestation etc.

They are forced to survive by new means and their lives are threatened by the deforestation movement.

Tropical deforestation is said to contribute to global warming, a strong reason for alternative materials.

Or, more subtly, one of the causes of the war is also a cause of deforestation.

Deforestation threatens the forests and the plants and animals that live there.

Since then, logging and deforestation for agriculture have taken their toll on the remainder of the pheasant's historic range.

The deforestation has led to more rapid runoff of rain waters and increased silting of river and lake beds.

Deforestation has usually been a death knell to their.

Deforestation is the second largest human-made source.

Marsh recognised, for instance, that deforestation alters climate.

The second signal of deforestation should come through clearer.

However, they became extinct from many areas because of deforestation and hunting.

Spanish building requirements and firewood needs lead to the deforestation of many areas.

Other problems include illicit cultivation of marijuana and heavy deforestation.

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World English Dictionary

deforest (diːˈfɒrɪst)

—vb
	(tr) Also: disforest to clear of trees

defores'tation

—n

de'forester

—n

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Word Origin & History

deforestation

1884, from de- + forest. Earlier in this sense was deforesting (1530s).

American Heritage

Science Dictionary

DeForest

(dĭ-fôr'ĭst) Pronunciation Key
American electrical engineer and inventor who is known as "the father of radio." He patented more than 300 inventions, including the triode electron tube, which made it possible to amplify and detect radio waves.

deforestation

(dē-fôr'ĭ-stā'shən) Pronunciation Key
The cutting down and removal of all or most of the trees in a forested area. Deforestation can erode soils, contribute to desertification and the pollution of waterways, and decrease biodiversity through the destruction of habitat.

American Heritage

Cultural Dictionary

deforestation [(dee-fawr-uh-stay-shuhn)]

The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else. The term is used today to refer to the destruction of forests by human beings and their replacement by agricultural systems.

Note: Deforestation is considered to be a main contributor to the greenhouse effect.

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deforestation definition

programming
A technique invented by Phil Wadler for eliminating intermediate data structures built and passed between composed functions in function languages.
(1997-06-21)

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