uninhabitable

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But those supplies have long dried up, and researchers today estimate 80 percent of Nauru has been rendered uninhabitable by mining.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

They also highlighted an additional 24 planets within a more restrictive 3D habitable zone, based on tighter assumptions about how much heat a planet can tolerate before becoming uninhabitable.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2026

Some crave adventure while others see the planet as a backup home in the event that Earth is rendered uninhabitable by an asteroid strike or runaway climate change.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

"That will just make this village uninhabitable with the noise and the pollution. How can you live with aircraft 250m away if it happens? It's ridiculous," he says.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026

We carried tents and groundsheets and sleeping-bags and saucepans and food and axes and everything else one needs in the interior of an unmapped, uninhabitable and inhospitable country.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl