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
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
This is a landscape with sparse tree cover, containing “tremendously reduced biodiversity,” that stores a fraction of the carbon of an intact rain forest, Nobre says.
From Scientific American • Feb. 20, 2023
It is embedded with stone logs, the remains of a tropical rain forest that was swept up in the eruption and buried in ash and mud.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
