Destruction of the world's forests releases large quantities of CO2, which form part of the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming.
Barber had caught a small glimpse of a larger global issue -- the destruction of the world's coral reefs -- and it scared him.
Environmental groups have long complained that the WTO speeds the destruction of the world's forests and other resources by pressing its member nations to throw open their markets to increased trade.
"An area the size of Wales is frequently used to measure the rate of forest destruction around the world, " said Size of Wales project manager, Hannah Scrase.
In contemporary Britain its members are more worried about the destruction of the natural world.
When we hear the door of the very last bookstore slam shut with the same sort of "sickening smack" that announced the chopping of the last Truffula tree, will the Once-lers of the digital world regret their destruction of the old literary habitat?
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The destruction of World Heritage sites in Mali in 2012, especially the mausoleums in Timbuktu, sparked a wave of indignation across the world, helping to raise awareness of the critical situation facing the Malian people.
According to the Nature Conservancy, if the present rate of destruction continues, 70 percent of the world's coral reefs will be destroyed by the year 2050.
He was "deeply angry and upset to discover that, owing to the deliberate destruction of documents by the News of the World, he will never find out the true extent to which his privacy was invaded, " Mr Reed said.
Calling Hurricane Katrina "a portal into the future, " he says it is already too late to avert a rise of up to one degree that will lead to Arctic meltdown, extreme drought across much of the world and the destruction of low-lying island nations such as Tuavalu and the Maldives.
So this is also the season when stories of death, destruction, and the end of the world from climate change appear daily.
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With Iran in mind, foreign ministers earlier adopted a series of principles on preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction all over the world.
The Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict was adopted at The Hague (Netherlands) in 1954, as a consequence to the massive destruction of the cultural heritage in the Second World War.
There, nearly 20, 000 ecologists arrived from nearly 200 nations to find ways to stem the tide of ecological destruction occurring around the world.
We are determined to do the job which governments have been doing for the past ten years which is stop the import of rainforest destruction products from around the world.
But it was a few years later, walking through the vineyards just north of Epernay in the Marne Valley, that I became aware of the historical significance of a landscape that saw the destruction of thousands of young men in World War I.
Let us not allow omens of destruction and death to accompany the advance of this world!
Turner -- who backs the elimination of nuclear weapons and weapons of mass destruction -- wanted to know whether the administration has considered ridding the world of weapons of mass destruction and supporting nuclear nonproliferation, rather than pursuing a missile defense program that would cost billions.
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"They are directly contributing to the destruction of world's remaining ancient forests, " he alleged.
The rise of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s, and then the destruction wrought by the second world war, made many European democrats reconsider the usefulness of judges.
At the present rate of destruction, by the year 2050, a breathtaking 70 percent of the world's reefs will have disappeared, according to the Nature Conservancy.
But in the wake of the destruction, business leaders must also assess the impact that these types of world events have on their stakeholders including customers, employees and suppliers.
But it was the 1983 movie War Games, in which Matthew Broderick's character breaks into the Pentagon's computer system and brings the world to the brink of nuclear destruction, that launched the career of many an adolescent hacker.
Project Hexapod will even post a video of the destruction on YouTube for the world to enjoy.
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"The destruction is unbelievable, " Dr. Kyi Minn of the Christian relief organization World Vision said from Yangon.
In these, as in the forests of the Old World, destruction was perpetually going on.
"But let us not forget today that thanks to the valor of our veterans, the world is safer today from complete destruction than it has been in a long, long time, " he said.
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They applied it to the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which ended World War II.
C. taking 1.5 million barrels out of production is peanuts with demand destruction in the world now above 2 million barrels.
This drive to action and the creative destruction that tears down the old walls and ways of communicating is bringing seismic shifts to our world and society.
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