flooding
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Its backers say the beavers have created new wetland habitats on the site, improved water quality and made the area more resilient to flooding and drought.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
"Farming in a way that creates biodiversity resilience -- such as by flooding the fields very early -- has also helped combat drought", she said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
Rachel also brought flash flooding to Las Vegas near the Strip.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
"Dangerous winds and flooding rains continue along the coast," it said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
They flew over the flooding Toutle River and even over Buzz and the boys’ house.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
I suddenly realized: You’ve always bought houses on tops of hills because you’re afraid of water-level rise and that’s because you were raised to think the tribulations will bring mass floodings.
From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2021
The adobe structure survived Rio Grande floodings, fires and a transfer of sovereignty from Mexico to the United States.
From Washington Post ● May 16, 2018
Crystal Bridges disassembled the pavilion-style structure, which had suffered floodings over the years, and rebuilt it on the museum’s campus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2016
Even in Egypt, however, the recollection of the deluge seems to have survived, though it lay entangled amid what seem to be symbolized memories of unusual floodings of the river Nile.
From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Hugh Miller
Those of a sanguine temperament are more liable to floodings and to head symptoms; but such disorders with them usually readily yield to treatment.
From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys
