highland
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The reader advances across Mr. McKay’s superb translation as though compelled by a fierce highland wind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Despite that short evolutionary history, the plants have adapted to remarkably different habitats across the islands, including humid highland forests and hot, dry lowlands.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
Interestingly, the same gene has experienced strong positive selection in central African rainforest hunter-gatherers and in highland populations of Ecuador.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 14, 2026
Whole sections of coastal Nha Trang city were inundated last week, while deadly landslides struck highland passes around the Da Lat tourist hub.
From Barron's ● Nov. 23, 2025
However, that is not surprising, because modern highland staple crops are plant species that do not leave archaeologically visible residues except under exceptional conditions.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
The rock, called anorthosite, is an igneous material that makes up much of the Moon's bright, reflective highlands.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
Some visitors liken the landscape to the Scottish highlands, despite its tropical climate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The close-up image of the Moon's surface includes dark areas known as maria and bright areas known as the highlands.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
While studying the familiar dark plains and bright highlands, I somehow overlooked a pattern people have recognized for thousands of years.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2026
But the highlands, already occupied by dense populations of New Guineans, were not reached by Europeans until the 1930s.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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