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
In the millennia before European colonizers invaded the Amazon rain forest, throngs of Indigenous people moved mountains of dirt to create some 10,000 yet-to-be-identified earthworks across the region.
From Scientific American • Oct. 5, 2023
Officials from Para State, northern Brazil, inspect a deforested area in the Amazon rain forest during surveillance in the municipality of Pacaja, 620 km from the capital Belem, on September 22, 2021.
From Salon • Sep. 3, 2023
Originally, of course, people as distinctive as the Pygmies, living in a place as distinctive as the equatorial African rain forest, were surely isolated enough to develop their own language family.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
