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deforestationProcess of clearing forests. Rates of deforestation are particularly high in the tropics, where the poor quality of the soil has led to the practice of routine clear-cutting to make new soil available for agricultural use. Deforestation can lead to erosion, drought, loss of biodiversity through extinction of plant and animal species, and increased atmospheric carbon dioxide. Many nations have undertaken afforestation or reforestation projects to reverse the effects of deforestation, or to increase available timber. See also greenhouse effect. deforestation [dē‚fär·ə′stā·shən] (forestry) The act or process of removing trees from or clearing aforest.
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I immediately snatched up her CD Waldsterben (Moebius), and it has quickly become my musical security blanket. This is different from the outright forest death or Waldsterben from sulfur' dioxide that has claimed thousands of acres along Germany's border with Poland and the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic (Czechoslovakia). In Norway, maybe we have some Waldsterben problems,' she said, but I think that with us, acid rain mostly damages our streams. |
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