rain forest
Example Sentences
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His photos of temperate rain forest in Wales reveal shapes, structures and colours that rival a coral reef.
From BBC • Feb. 17, 2024
Old growth forests are certainly critically important keepers of habitats, but older forests, including rainforests like the Amazonian rain forest, are valuable primarily as carbon storage forests, not carbon sequestering forests.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023
Every rain forest we bulldoze for cattle and every open pit lithium mine we carve out to power our Teslas is hardly different than a Cordyceps fungus turning its host into a zombie.
From Salon • Oct. 31, 2023
The Great Plains have a ready source of surface-level moisture from the Gulf of Mexico, and the Pampas get moisture from the Amazon rain forest.
From Scientific American • Aug. 11, 2023
By midafternoon, just as Nin had predicted, sheets of water began pouring over the rain forest, dripping from the canopy until everything was wet through.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
