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
In the rain forest, okapis were able to survive and thrive with perfectly fine albeit unspectacular necks.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 19, 2023
The strain of Ebola virus that had erupted near Washington went into hiding somewhere in the rain forest.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
