The unprecedented land clearance released vast quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, triggering for the first time humanly caused global warming.

空地的规模史无前例，它们将大量的二氧化碳气体释放到了大气中，因而引发了第一次人为导致的全球变暖。

youdao

The majority of the meat-related emissions come from land clearance and from methane emissions associated with the animals' digestion.

与肉食相关的排放大都来自土地清理和与动物消化道有关的甲烷排放。

youdao

Though koalas are Australia's most iconic and adored marsupials, they are under threat due to a shortage of suitable habitat from mass land clearance.

尽管考拉是澳大利亚最具有代表性的哺乳动物，但由于栖息地的减少，它们仍处在危险中。

youdao

Remember, the environmental issues in New Zealand really began with ferocious land clearance in colonial times.

FORBES: Nigel Brown: A New Zealand Original

Much of this illegal land clearance was even taking place on what is supposed to be protected land.

BBC: Can capitalism save the Amazon?

Greenhouse gases are not the only climatically active ingredients that industry, farming and land clearance add to the atmosphere.

ECONOMIST: The science of climate change