deforestation
See also: déforestation
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French déforestation.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
deforestation (countable and uncountable, plural deforestations)
- The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially with an agricultural system.
- Antonyms: afforestation, reforestation
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion[1]:
- Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
- 2021 November 2, Jim Tankersley; Katie Rogers; Lisa Friedman, “With Methane and Forest Deals, Climate Summit Offers Hope After Gloomy Start”, in The New York Times[2], ISSN 0362-4331:
- The world leaders gathered at a crucial climate summit secured new agreements on Tuesday to end deforestation and reduce emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane, building momentum as the conference prepared to shift to a more grueling two weeks of negotiations on how to avert the planet’s catastrophic warming.
- (computing theory) A transformation to eliminate intermediate data structures within a program.
TranslationsEdit
process of destroying a forest
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Further readingEdit
deforestation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
