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Clearance of trees
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deforestation
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Wikipedia
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Deforestation , clearance or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use. Examples of deforestation include conversion of forestland to farms, ranches, or urban use. Tropical rainforests ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of being clear of trees the removal of trees [syn: disforestation ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1884, from deforest + -ation . Earlier was deforesting (1530s) which was a legal term for the change in definition of a parcel of land from "forest" to something else.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Deforestation has been shown to cause floods and drought. ▪ Some parts of tropical America have seen over 70% deforestation . ▪ The land is severely eroded as a result of widespread deforestation and intensive farming. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially by an agricultural system.
Usage examples of deforestation.
Overpopulation, over- development, nuclear terrorism, environmental warfare tactics, radiation leakage from power plants and waste dumps, toxic waste, air pollution, deforestation, pollution and overfishing of the oceans, global warming, ozone depletion, loss of biodiversity through extinction.
If all fossil fuels and their derivatives, as well as trees for paper and construction were banned in order to save the planet, reverse the Greenhouse Effect and stop deforestation.
Experts today conservatively estimate that, once fully restored in America, hemp industries will generate $500 billion to a trillion dollars per year, and will save the planet and civilization from fossil fuels and their derivatives - and from deforestation!
Fuel conversion was driven by both deforestation, and the opening of large new coal fields.
Like communalism and animism, non-nuclear family structures provide a poor defense against the corrosive effects of cities, where African culture is being redefined as deforestation tied to overpopulation drives peasants out of the countryside.
Deforestation, pollution, urbanization, had all progressed so far now that various points of no return had been passed.
It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioactive wastes, acid rain, topsoil erosion, tropical deforestation, exponential population growth.