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Desertification vs Deforestation - What's the difference?

desertification | deforestation |

As nouns the difference between desertification and deforestation

is that desertification is process by which a geographic region becomes a desert. The change may result from natural changes in climate or by human activity while deforestation is the process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially by an agricultural system.

desertification

English

Noun

(-) (wikipedia desertification)
  • Process by which a geographic region becomes a desert. The change may result from natural changes in climate or by human activity.

    • deforestation

    English

    (wikipedia deforestation)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially by an agricultural system.
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    • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=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.}}

    Antonyms

    * afforestation * reforestation