biome
Example Sentences
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Some say the biome that rises from the fires will be a degraded, open-canopy forest.
From Washington Post
“There is no climate security for the world without a protected Amazon. We will spare no effort to bring deforestation and degradation of our biomes to zero by 2030,” he said.
From Washington Post
The hundreds of billions of trees in the Amazon biome have absorbed over a billion metric tons of CO2 per year, equal to about 4 percent of world fossil-fuel emissions.
From Scientific American
"Brazil is ready to resume its leading role in the fight against the climate crisis," he told a crowd of supporters in São Paulo, "protecting all our biomes, especially the Amazon Forest."
From Salon
Some researchers claim that expelling harmless helminths from your body works against you — that these worms work to balance out our gut biomes and prevent allergies and autoimmune disorders.
From Washington Post
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