The word "denuded" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a verb which means to strip or deprive of covering or clothing, to make bare or naked. For example: The denuded trees of the old forest swayed in the wind.
Yet Mr Fischer expertly musters these meagre resources to tell the story of the island's early history, when a large and fairly advanced civilisation was brought low by ecological collapse as the island was systematically denuded of trees, which were cut down for firewood, building material or to make canoes.
Watching it happen "is a nightmare".These comments are given extra credibility by the fact that Mr Carter is himself a rancher, with 8,100 hectares (20,000 acres) on the denuded eastern edge of the Xingu river basin in Mato Grosso, a vast Amazonian state.
When I look at the bird's carcass at the end of a Christmas dinner, and it's scrapped, denuded, used up, bare, I empathise.I was looking forward to the long drive home until it began: the northeastern coast roads are where America's love affair with the automobile dies a slow, choking death.
It is therefore sobering to consider that each ship requires 200m litres of fresh water to operate the locks of the canal and that, over the years, this water has been drying up.Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, in Panama, think that reforesting the canal's denuded watershed would help regulate the supply.
He points to the north where the last rays of the sun cast a blue veil over hills of desiccated bamboo, shabby tea bushes and denuded, smouldering forests.
ACROSS the Mexican countryside, villages are denuded of their working men but kept alive by their labour.
Denuded of its foreign-policy fig leaf, the station's continued existence would then be even harder to justify than it is now.
But it is becoming harder to make a living as more boats arrive from already denuded waters to the west.
In the past, denuded land on the mainland, too, was simply planted with monocultures.
Without the characteristically stifled and knowingly awkward laughter that usually accompanies Beckett's plays in the theatre, his texts can appear denuded, clumsily formalist and tediously inhuman.
