Rates of cropland abandonment in arid regions are increasing, and abandoned fields in such regions can have low levels of ecosystem function and biodiversity.
The Situation of Child Abandonment in Romania report finds that many of the mothers who abandon their children are very young, poorly educated and living in extreme poverty.
Further support is gleaned from accounts of child abandonment in historical times.
Here we see the legacy of abandonment in Shannon's relationships with those she is closest to.
Three years ago, Zeus, a French Trotter horse, was rescued from abandonment in Spain.
Two terms in Congress, sure, but a total party abandonment in 2006 when she ran for Senate.
Eventually the necessity of transporting fresh water to and waste away from the island resulted in its abandonment in 1963.
Hence the abandonment in the mid-1990s of public-sector reforms proposed by the then prime minister, Alain Juppé.
It does little to address the poverty, unemployment, poor health and abandonment in 95% of the city.
A residential tank removal or abandonment in the New York area, he said, costs about $1,500.
Incest also dominates his first novel, "The Cement Garden" (1978), a grim fantasy of abandonment, in which teen-agers become unmoored after their parents die.
