Deforestation [noun]

If governments do not take action to control greenhouse gases and deforestation, a vicious cycle will ensue where fires may lead to more fires.

Among other things, it ensures developing countries get paid if they can show that they’ve been preventing deforestation, a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions, and environmental degradation.

The die also controls where habitation destruction — either deforestation or pollution — spreads.

Some people also use words like clearance, clearing or clearcutting for deforestation.

Ranches in the Amazon, for example, get their space from deforestation.

Even if this program didn’t reduce poverty, he says, “the value of the avoided deforestation just for carbon dioxide emissions alone is more than the program costs.”

Ferraro and Rhita Simorangkir, an applied microeconomist at the National University of Singapore, wanted to see if Indonesia’s poverty-alleviation program was affecting deforestation.

Unlike the Mexico study that found increased deforestation with wealth, this one shows less, he says, and “it’s totally possible that’s the case in both places.”

I think the deforestation of the country is probably the cause of these terrible visitations.

If all the trees were bread and cheese there would be considerable deforestation in any part of England where I was living.