degradation

Industries and markets tied to commodities produced in areas experiencing forest loss and degradation may also need to address their role.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 21, 2026

Without intervention to avoid further degradation, she warned: "We're not going to be able to reverse that biodiversity curve."

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

In the 1980s, Japanese buyers began pushing up the prices of matsutake mushrooms and looking for them abroad after environmental degradation led to a collapse in yields at home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

The storm swells are likely to create more problems for coastal communities that have suffered severe beach degradation this summer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Glad was I to get him out of the silk warehouse, and then out of a jeweller’s shop: the more he bought me, the more my cheek burned with a sense of annoyance and degradation.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

A 15-year survey considers an artist whose witty lacerations of power relations are as comfortable taking on motherhood as they are the degradations of corporate culture.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2022

Under Hawpe’s leadership, the Courier Journal successfully fought to rein in the excesses and environmental degradations of the mining industry.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 19, 2021

But if you and your romantic partner have different statuses, the airport can be much more than a series of trivial degradations one must endure at the start of a vacation.

From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2020

The boy keeps thinking of King’s remarks about “the degradations of Jim Crow and the need to transform that degradation into action.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 9, 2019

But within our boundaries we, too, drew a line that included our right to bread regardless of the indignities or degradations involved in getting it.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright