temperate
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In a paper last year for the Journal of Environmental Management, Mr. Resco de Dios and co-authors looked at fires in the temperate forests of southwestern Europe, including Spain, France and Portugal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Now lifestyles have become comparable to those in temperate zones, and civilization in the tropical zones need no longer lag behind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
So birds adapted for tropical forests use different acoustic building blocks, or motifs, to those from temperate regions.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
That finding suggests some tidally locked exoplanets could maintain localized geothermal environments that provide conditions favorable for life, particularly in more temperate mid latitudes.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
Correspondingly, most nutrients in tropical forests are stored not in the soil, as in temperate regions, but in the vegetation that covers it.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing temperate
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