Sentence examples for deforestation this from inspiring English sources

When they're burnt down or cleared – a process referred to as deforestation – this stored carbon is released back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide and contributes to climate change.

While some environmentalists fear the RSPO scheme is too weak to halt deforestation, this is a significant step for the British retailer, following its decision to use only RSPO-oil in its own-brand fish fingers.

When they're burnt down or cleared – a process referred to as deforestation – this stored carbon is released back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide and contributes to climate change.

Due to Amazonian deforestation, this species is expected to lose around 7% of suitable habitat over the span of 11 years (Soares-Filho et al. 2006, BirdLife International 2016).

Where livestock feed has had an impact on deforestation, this figure has also been included.

Taking advantage of recent fine-scale measurement of deforestation, this analysis aims to improve our understanding of the scale of deforestation drivers in the tropics.

In a sign of the worrying trend, satellite data showed a 28% rise in deforestation this year, breaking a five-year trend of decline.

Supply Change, tracking corporate commitments through publicly disclosed data on the "Big Four" forest-risk commodities: palm oil, cattle, soy and wood, identified a rise in corporate commitments to end deforestation this year.

Although this putative origin could potentially be located by more sampling, extensive deforestation in this region since the mid-nineteenth century [ 36] may mean that the introduced eastern genotypes of both host and parasitoid that dominate British populations no longer exist at their geographic source.

I had only a vague first-world notion of "deforestation" and this being bad.

They attribute the decline to deforestation in this region, once rich with Brazil nut trees but now dominated by pastures.