Sentence examples for devastated plants from inspiring English sources

In the most heavily affected areas, the invading worms have devastated plants and turned a forest floor once carpeted with leaf litter into bare soil.

In both Chernobyl and Fukushima, areas around the devastated plants were made uninhabitable for the foreseeable future.

Root disease (Sclerotium rolfsii?) devastated plant populations in Cornell open field plantings, and less so in the tunnel.

Hundreds of thousands of cicada larvae will not only have devastated the plants' roots, but the adult insects will also transmit a fatal micro-bacterium that will make the plants slowly wither and die.

They also devastated indigenous plants and animals, shaping much of California's now iconic landscape of hillsides barren of all but oaks and dry grass.

Imperial Sugar has restarted its refinery in Port Wentworth to resume making crystal sugar for the first time since a deadly explosion devastated the plant last year.

It was the day after a huge earthquake and a towering tsunami devastated the plant, and the workers for Tokyo Electric Power Company knew they were the only hope for halting an unfolding nuclear disaster.

She is desperate to keep her small yard clean to prove she has not given up on her home, which she and her family evacuated two years ago after a 9.0 earthquake and a tsunami devastated the plant five miles away.

Meanwhile, urban communities and small towns are devastated by plant closings.

But recently, a tiny insect that thrives in warmer temperatures — the coffee berry borer — has been spreading steadily, devastating coffee plants in Africa, Latin America, and around the world.

Now, there is evidence that a warming climate may be linked to one of the major threats facing the coffee industry in Ethiopia and elsewhere: A tiny insect known as the coffee berry borer beetle has been devastating coffee plants around the world, and new research suggests even slight temperature increases promote the spread of the pest.