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Here, a vast patch of land has been enclosed by a glossy hoarding which reads, "Woven into the fabric of E2".

As he had many times before, Tok caught a glimpse of a vast patch of green, studded with trees and abandoned railway coaches, stretching along the highway in the city's Makkasan area.

A vast patch of the state has been hammered by tropical rains for more than two weeks, swamping towns and virtually paralyzing the state's lucrative coal and farming industries.

The six-strong crew plans to track close but not through the infamous Pacific Trash Vortex, a vast patch of sea off Hawaii containing millions of tonnes of discarded plastic bottles, bags and packaging – an area said to be six times the size of the UK.

The vast patch of garbage floating in the Pacific Ocean is far worse than previously thought, with an aerial survey finding a much larger mass of fishing nets, plastic containers and other discarded items than imagined.

RICHES IN THE BARRENS To most HBO subscribers, the Pine Barrens are the vast patch of nowhere where Chris and Paulie of "The Sopranos" got lost with a menacing Russian.

In the vast exhibition hall of London's Tate Modern, the installation looks from a distance like a huge patch of gravel.

But ever since the engineers in Brasília rolled out the blueprints for damming the Xingu two decades ago, the project has attracted powerful opposition.Environmental groups and river dwellers say Belo Monte will flood vast patches of rainforest while desiccating others.

The urge to avoid plastic is understandable, given reports of toxic toys and baby bottles, seabirds choking on bottle caps and vast patches of ocean swirling with everlasting synthetic debris.

The prevailing currents cause flotsam from around the world to accumulate in a vast becalmed patch of ocean.

The $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline would carry crude oil some 1,700 miles from a vast oil patch in northern Alberta to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast.