forest
Example Sentences
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In many forests, fire can clear out built up dead material, return nutrients to the soil, and help ecosystems reset.
From Science Daily
That’s one of the reasons why the cover of his reintroduction project, “Genesis,” features a distorted forest instead of his face.
From Los Angeles Times
Emissions rules in Europe and elsewhere favor forest products over fossil fuels because trees remove carbon from the atmosphere as they grow.
Just east of Tangier, the massive Gourougou forest has become a base for thousands of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa seeking to enter the nearby Spanish enclave of Melilla illegally.
From Barron's
Weyerhaeuser also is selling its forests as a carbon sink to companies seeking to offset their carbon emissions or burnish their green credentials.
From Barron's
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