farmland
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In a practice that ought to inspire progressives, those farmers deepened the delta channels and spread over their surrounding farmland the rich silt they excavated or used it to reinforce the levees.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Add to that Hurricane Melissa, which struck the island nation in October 2025, flooding fertile farmland and destroying crops.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026
Opponents raised concerns about the loss of farmland, the impact on the landscape and the safety of the lithium-ion batteries.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
Microplastics and nanoplastics are widely known for contaminating oceans, rivers, and farmland.
From Science Daily • Mar. 23, 2026
Half of its farmland is devoted to labor-intensive, high-yield, irrigated rice agriculture, facilitated by abundant rivers flowing from the wet mountains onto sloping lowland plains.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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