Sentence examples for devastating erosion from inspiring English sources
A potent combination of accelerating sea level rise, salt water intrusion and subsidence of the land has caused devastating erosion and flooding, exacerbated further by regional oil and gas development and the shipping industry.
Nor do farmers, many of them rock-ribbed Republicans, readily acknowledge that the windbreaks and other conservation projects started by the CCC helped preserve the land from devastating erosion.
The result: fierce runoff creating devastating erosion.
From devastating droughts and floods to coastal erosion, economic adversity, (including higher insurance premiums and increased heating and cooling costs), and the extinction of myriad species, the report is sobering, to put it mildly.
This devastating downward trend has contributed greatly to the erosion of the middle class.
Released amid a serious, very grownup breakup I went through this year, it was as inspirational as Usher's Climax Guardiann critics' No 2 pick) was devastating – love isn't about adapting to perfection's erosion, Jepsen says, it's about phone numbers and emoticons and cute boys glancing at you in Pizza Hut.
Winter cover crops, which are planted to protect the soil from wind and water erosion, are devastated by the geese.
However, we will discuss it briefly here since genetic erosion could devastate future sustainability of cropping in centers of origin by reducing the diversity available for future farmer-mediated crop evolution, as well as reducing diversity available for future breeding efforts.
Tsunami waves are generally devastating as they cause significant damage to both off- and on-shore goods, high erosion of beaches and even, in some cases, catastrophic loss of human life.
And the 1 billion people who rely on the world's coral reefs will await a potential 2010 El Niño, whose hotter temperatures can be devastating for reefs, with trepidation.Climate change will also be a multiplier of poverty, as increasingly erratic weather induces more drought, flooding, erosion and soil degradation.
