wetland
Example Sentences
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Set in the Llanos de Moxos, a vast network of savannas, gallery forests, and floodplains that make up the largest wetland system in the Amazon basin, this area has inspired curiosity for centuries.
From Science Daily
Eel populations are falling worldwide, scientists say, largely due to factors linked to human activity such as the pollution of waterways, destruction of wetlands, hydroelectric dams, and fishing.
From Barron's
EPA—that cleaned up prior judicial messes and reined in the feds by stripping its claim to any “significant nexus” to navigable waters and tightening the definition of wetlands.
Researchers studying peatlands found that abrupt movements in the Southern Westerly Winds 15,000 years ago set off a large expansion of these wetland systems.
From Science Daily
It has long been overused, with so much water taken out that for decades the river has seldom met the sea, transforming once-vast wetlands in Mexico into stretches of dry sand.
From Los Angeles Times
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